Jacobin’s Summer Reads Guide
We asked our editors and contributors what you should read this summer. They answered with everything from romances set in the former East Germany to thrillers about Russian mercenaries.
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Issue 58: Letters + The Internet Speaks
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A Friend at Court?
A growing number of companies want to bankroll your lawsuit.
Well-Endowed
University finances are structured to insulate education from the whims of politics — at the expense of students, workers, and the rest of us.
Market Mania
The history of speculation is replete with burst bubbles.
The Impossible Film
In the late 1920s, the great Soviet director Sergei Eisenstein made notes for a dream project: Das Kapital, the film.
Selling Settlement
Real estate developers make massive profits off Israeli land seizures — and encourage brazen settlement building deep in the West Bank.
Holy Profits
The mirage of Islamic banking.
Gambling on the Green Transition
The EU’s market for carbon credits is still a market — and it’s plagued by fraud and speculation.
A Sweatshop in Your Pocket
Crypto-based video games like Axie Infinity are no fun for the Filipinos who play them for a living.
Director Alex Gibney on Dark Money
The documentarian speaks to Jacobin about The Dark Money Game, his new HBO series on the corrosive effects of Citizens United.
Issue 58: Dossier
We have all the vocabulary you need to score big on your Robinhood app.
Blue Devils
More than half of the top 15 crypto-PAC-backed candidates during the 2024 campaign season were Democrats.
Wannabe Gordon Gekkos
Are you missing the point by idolizing them?
In Carbon We Trust
In Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future, a global currency backed by carbon removal turns speculation into salvation.
Five Books on Speculation
As history and literature are quick to remind us, many a get-rich-quick scheme has ended in sorrow.
Fruit of the Union
Union assets have skyrocketed while membership remains largely stagnant.
DJ D-Sol’s Double Life
Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon knows how to drop a beat. But could he handle a drop in the markets?
Elon’s Slash-and-Burn Operation
DOGE has cut millions of dollars’ worth of grants in every state.