When the State Runs the Numbers Game
In the second half of the 20th century, as raising taxes came to spell political suicide, states looked to a new source of revenue: lotteries.
7 Articles by: Amelia Ayrelan Iuvino
Amelia Ayrelan Iuvino is Jacobin’s deputy editor.
Non-Tenure-Track Faculty Are Striking at Wellesley College
For the past two weeks, non-tenure-track faculty at Wellesley College in Massachusetts have been on strike to fight for a first contract. Jacobin spoke to two members of the organizing committee who say the college is refusing to bargain in good faith.
Harry and Meghan Just Want to Be Normal Rich People
If any good comes from tens of millions of people watching two incredibly boring rich people complain about how hard it is to be royalty in Netflix’s new documentary Harry & Meghan, maybe some will start to question whether the monarchy should even exist.
The Choice Between Politics and Art Is a False One
In Either/Or, Elif Batuman’s follow-up novel to The Idiot, she looks back to a time in her life when she felt compelled to choose between a political life and an artistic one. We can have both.
LuLaRoe’s Leggings Rip-off Scheme Is Just Capitalism Writ Small
The LuLaRoe documentary LuLaRich got one thing right: everybody wants full-time pay for part-time work. But it blames selfishness and incompetence for keeping that dream out of reach — not the market forces that produced and encouraged the company’s behavior.
Sally Rooney’s New Novel Gives Us All We Should Want From Fiction
It isn’t the responsibility of a work of fiction to offer political solutions. So it’s perfectly fine that Beautiful World, Where Are You doesn’t provide any.
The Failure of “Choice Feminism”
Jessa Crispin’s new book Why I Am Not a Feminist offers some ideas on how to weave a strong class politics into twenty-first century feminism.