Surrealism for Social Change
A review of Ben Katchor’s Hand-Drying in America.
19372 Articles by: Abigail Torre
Abigail Torre grew up in Chile and now lives in Berkeley, California where she is cochair of the East Bay chapter of Democratic Socialists of America.
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford: A User’s Guide
Everything you need to know about Toronto’s awful mayor.
Gatsby and the Spring Breakers
Spring Breakers is more faithful to the themes of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby than Baz Luhrmann’s new film adaption.
Curious Utopias
A Universal Basic Income may not be much of a utopia in itself, but it points in surprisingly radical directions.
Epstein on Bangladesh: “Blame the Workers”
Richard Epstein, the libertarian legal scholar, has helpfully chimed into the discussion about the Rana Plaza garment factory collapse in Bangladesh that killed over 1100 people so far by zeroing in on who’s really to blame: the workers.
The “Fucking Hipster” Show
Mocking hipsters in the service of capital.
The Leopold and Loeb of Modern Libertarianism
“Nathan Leopold is not the only boy who has read Nietzsche.”
The Tragedy of Pakistan
The Taliban want to end democracy in Pakistan. The state won’t be able to stop them.
Italian Lessons
On the Italian Communist Party and the path not taken between the horrors of state socialism and the bankruptcy of modern social democracy.
Porno for Pirates
Star Trek meets anti–Star Trek in California District Court, as a science fiction-loving judge demolishes a gang of copyright trolls.
Behind the Kitchen Door
In Behind the Kitchen Door, Saru Jayaraman finally reveals what many of the 10 million people who work in the rapidly growing U.S. restaurant industry face daily while cooking and serving food.
Foul-Weather Friends
Radical critique from an unexpected source — the head of currency trading at a major Wall Street firm considers global capital markets.
The Children of Men
Edmund Burke to Niall Ferguson: You know nothing of my work. You mean my whole theory is wrong. How you ever got to teach a course in anything is totally amazing.
The European Left: An Interview with Leo Panitch
In this interview, the fate of European social democracy, among other topics, are discussed.
Like Mike?
Michael Harrington was wrong about a lot of things, but not quite in the way Joe Allen describes.
At the Barricades with E! Writers
Pitching jokes to Joan Rivers for $500 a week.
The Muslim Problem
The Muslim community has been continuously reminded by the media since 9/11 that the primary duty of an acceptable Muslim is to continuously condemn the behavior of a tiny minority of coreligionists.
The Next Left
A new New Deal alliance would bode well for the liberal-left, but rejuvenating American liberalism will only be a means to an end.
