Adrien Beauduin is currently researching a PhD on Polish and Czech politics at the Central European University’s department of gender studies.
Every day, the neoliberal consensus delivers another iteration of the split between public and private that euphemizes its ongoing project of class segregation. It’s no secret that the split extends to public transportation as well.
I now have my very own blog, which I guess means I actually have to start blogging again. I’ll be back soon enough with my usual ramblings about work, robots, laziness, out-of-control intellectual property laws, and just giving people money, but in the meantime I thought I’d introduce the blog’s title.
A leading Civil War historian challenges the new orthodoxy about how slavery ended in America.
We asked a former West Point professor about teaching literature at the nation’s most prestigious military academy. What he told us revealed the truth behind the country’s most elite warrior caste — and how liberal heroes like Thoreau and the Beats inspire the next generation of “Runaway Generals.”
From Blackbeard to Kim Dotcom, has piracy been a radical force?
Why has the American left neglected this revolutionary inheritance?
Of far more legitimate concern than the impending subversion of world order by greenwashed commie terrorists is, of course, that the fabrication of such threats contributes to a blanket delegitimization of environmental activism.
When it comes to reforming our food system, consumer choice isn’t enough.
“Good gentrifiers” and the new Brooklyn aesthetic.
The transatlantic convergence of two revolutionaries.
Or, why is there still socialism in the United States?
Design plays a central role in cultural reproduction. This isn’t necessarily a good thing, for anyone.
Sex workers and their would-be saviors.
We need more grand histories. But 5,000 years of anecdotes is no substitute for real political economy.
Jacobin’s existence is more precarious than publications with less reach than us.
Communal celebration has deep roots in human culture. Why shouldn’t the Left embrace it?
