What’s on a Leftist Teenager’s Bookshelf?
We surveyed 1,789 socialist teens. Here’s what they’re reading before prom.
20912 Article(s) by: Adrien Beauduin
Adrien Beauduin is currently researching a PhD on Polish and Czech politics at the Central European University’s department of gender studies.
How Adults Took Over YA
By treating young adult fiction as a laboratory for professional-class moralizing, the publishing industry has effectively abandoned actual teens.
The Minecraft Marxists
The proletarian revolution is playing out on a desktop near you.
Kid-Free Zones
Public spaces are replete with laws and design choices that limit teens’ access to them.
Issue 61: The Internet Speaks
The bots have spoken.
Listen to Your Elders
Jacobin contributor and former teenager Sofia Baker answers your most burning questions.
“They Won’t Stop Us From Speaking Out”
Kneecap talks to Jacobin about attempts to punish the hip-hop trio for its vocal stance on Palestine and its hopes for a unified Ireland.
Why the Left Misreads Gen Z — and What the Right Sees Clearly
Leftists have celebrated the growing favorability of socialism among young people, but youth politics are more heterodox than they appear.
Can the Left Get the Last Laugh?
As SNL’s resident body-horror comic, Sarah Sherman brings Bernie-era politics — and stubborn optimism — into a moment defined by ICE raids, massive inequality, and creeping authoritarianism.
Stream of Consciousness-Raising
Hasan Piker talks to Jacobin about radicalization, the Right, and his own place in socialist politics.
The Therapist Will Raise You Now
Therapeutic culture risks raising a generation taught to look inward while the sources of their distress lie outside themselves.
Politics After Literacy
Postliteracy won’t replace reason with madness, but it might give us madness of a new and different type.
When the Pencil Was the Sword
When revolutionary Cuba asked its youth to eliminate illiteracy, 100,000 answered the call, reshaping their country and themselves in the process.
The Inheritors of an Unfinished Revolution
Growing up after the monarchy’s fall, Nepal’s youth are confronting a republic that transformed political institutions while leaving the underlying social order intact.
Generation Z in Name Only
Mexico City’s “Gen Z” anti-government protest against President Claudia Sheinbaum bears all the hallmarks of an astroturf campaign.
A War for Oil?
What Donald Trump wants from Venezuela’s oil fields is not money but power.
The Price of Love
A recent turnaround in South Korea’s marriage rate shows that its fertility crisis is also an affordability crisis.
Don’t Just Give 16-Year-Olds the Vote — Give Them Something to Vote For
Austria’s experience with 16-year-old voters shows that expanding the franchise does little to restore trust when elections amount to a choice between managed decline and the far right.