A Porn of Her Own
Anti-porn feminism takes away power from the women who make porn and want control of their work.
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.
Black Panthers vs. Reactionary Minds
Conservatism is the theoretical voice of this animus against the agency of the subordinate classes.
Rosa Parks Syndrome in Palestine
Liberals who generally support Israel, but find themselves cringing when Israeli politicians make racist remarks, have seized on bus segregation because it packages occupation in digestible terms.
On the Anniversaries of My Lai and Iraq
45 years after My Lai, you might want to read this, from the Washington Post.
The Forgotten Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks may be lionized for her defiance on the bus, but that episode doesn’t do justice to her career as an organizer.
The View from Somewhere
The fallacy of bland and faceless reporting hurts journalism by allowing bias and prejudice to masquerade as hands-off objectivity.
House of Cards and the Liberal Imagination
The Netflix series’ cynicism shouldn’t be mistaken for considered political critique.
Wendy Kopp, Princeton Tory
What Wendy Kopp was learning at Princeton, before she was teaching for America.
The Wage and Productivity Effects of Internet Trolling
Ask not for whom Yggy trolls, he trolls for thee.
BookMarx (3/10/2013)
What you should read this week.
Venezuela after Chávez
What’s next for the Bolivarian Revolution?
The Case for Open Borders
When the Right charges the Left with advocating amnesty, we should show them to be correct.
Hugo Lives
Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías (1954–2013)
Blaming Things
Do guns kill people or do people kill people? Is it television or bad parenting that’s destroying the American family? These are worn-out false dichotomies about the political nature of technology.
Out of the Desert
Our minds and emotions are conditioned by scarcity.
“Like” Feminism
The problem with Sheryl Sandberg’s “feminism.”
Israel v. Palestine, Plessy v. Ferguson
Starting on Monday, certain buses running into Israel will have separate lines for Arabs.
BookMarx (3/3/2013)
What you should read this week.
Ross Douthat and the Young Marx
Why Marx loved work — and we should, too.
Wage-Slavery and Republican Liberty
Generations of workers critiqued wage-labor in the name of republican liberty.