We explained our issue prompt to ChatGPT and asked it to recommend five books on the idea of progress. The results — which represent the return of an AI author to Jacobin’s pages, after a somewhat clumsy chatbot interview in issue 52 — were more banal than sinister.
How Giovanni Battista Piranesi’s mournful portrait of Rome shaped the Enlightenment’s understanding of progress.
How two socialist science-fiction bestsellers invited nineteenth-century readers into a grand debate about progress.
A brief catalog of genre-changing moments in music history.
Niger has the opportunity to nationalize the uranium industry. Will it?
Two decades of unprecedented infrastructure investments transformed China. Then the country hit a wall of debt.
The EU has been trailing the US economically for decades, and the COVID-19 pandemic only made its situation worse. Does Mario Draghi hold the secret to restoring Europe’s productivity?
The tiny nation has discovered the world’s largest per capita oil reserves. What does the bonanza mean for its future?
Bashar al-Assad has left the building. It took fourteen years of bloody conflict.
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Donald Trump’s billionaire appointees make his second administration the richest in US history.
The president’s cryptocurrency isn’t doing so hot.
Chocolate and flowers are cliché, and socialism is love. For Valentine’s Day, print subscriptions are just $14.
In the latest episode of the Jacobin Radio podcast Confronting Capitalism, Vivek Chibber discusses the Democrats’ long-standing attachment to identity politics and why this form of politics can’t meaningfully fight oppression.
In the latest episode of the Jacobin Radio podcast Confronting Capitalism, Vivek Chibber discusses the difference between social democracy and socialism and how real change has been won in the past.
Jacobin’s documentary, The Ecuadorian Candidate, chronicled the young leftist economist Andrés Arauz as he faced right-wing opposition and embarked on a journey to become the next president of Ecuador. It’s a gripping feature now available for free.
