The Vice of Selfishness

The Left shouldn’t sharply separate “moral” discourse from “self-interested” discourse, because the two are closely intertwined.

Alexander Cockburn: The Last Polemicist

Cockburn’s hatred was most certainly pure. But it was a joyful hate that he nurtured. An inspiring hate.

The Decline of the American Empire

Neoliberalism lives and shouldn’t be given a premature obituary, but the American empire has entered a decadent phase.

Revenge of the Nerds

No act of consumption is completely passive, but even the most active types of consumption form a shaky ground for serious left politics.

Rethinking Care

Welcome to the “care economy” — the booming service sector that has emerged from America’s rapidly graying boomer population.

The Substance of Geek Culture

“Geeks” are more than passive consumers of corporate media.

No Experiments: Germany After the Election

What does Sunday’s endorsement of Angela Merkel mean for Germany and its Left Party?

The Numbers Racket

Rick Scott and Obama’s figures may sound impressive, but “job creation” does not equal recovery.

Higher Education Can Be Free

Oregon’s “Pay It Forward” plan is based on a neoliberal understanding of education as a commodity.

Obombya

A cartoon from Matt Bors, featured in the last print issue of Jacobin.

University of Oregon to Faculty: You Belong to Me!

Class Action: Presented by the Chicago Teacher Union’s CORE Caucus and Jacobin

With your help, Jacobin and the Chicago Teachers Union’s CORE Caucus will produce a color booklet on neoliberal education reform.

Marshall Berman, 1940-2013

Black, Brown, and Invisible

Just as mass incarceration uses the gloss of rehabilitation to hide the realities of social control, military intervention has appropriated the language of humanitarianism to disguise imperialist motives.

Different War, Same Columnist

Friedman fires more volleys of cliche into the densely packed prejudices of his readers.

An Exchange on Libya

A letter from Gilbert Achcar on Greg Shupak’s recent Libya piece.

Don’t Mention the War

With a vacuous social vision, economics confronts the “return of the social question” woefully unprepared.

Reading Material

Introducing the Jacobin books section.

Art Class

In his new book, Ben Davis’s arguments too often take the form of smug, self-righteous dismissals that convey only disapproval.

The Myth of the Hardhat Hawk

In the popular imagination, opposition to the Vietnam War was driven largely by the privileged, while supposedly reactionary blue-collar workers supported the war effort. That memory is wrong.