Legoland Lost
The Lego Movie’s emphasis on creative and spontaneous play clashes with what the toys have become.
19372 Articles by: Benjamin Case
Benjamin Case is a researcher, educator, and organizer living in Pittsburgh.
Stuart Hall (1932–2014)
Stuart Hall was, first and foremost, a person driven by political commitment.
“We’re All Staying”
Hamburg is experiencing a broad While racism rages through much of Europe, Hamburg is experiencing the opposite: a broad movement for refugee rights combined with a struggle for the right to the city. refugee rights combined with a struggle for the right to the city.
After the Flood
Margaret Atwood’s post-apocalyptic trilogy sees localized resistance to a dystopian future.
The Labor of Social Media
The battles over whether communities on Twitter are good or bad, toxic or supportive, obscure the labor that sustains all social networks.
Jewfros in Palestine
Many of Israel’s defenders hold entirely reasonable positions — so long as they forget that there are actual Palestinians living there.
Philip Seymour Hoffman (1967–2014)
To see Philip Seymour Hoffman even in films that you hated was to come away awed.
New York’s War on Academic Freedom
The New York State Legislature is readying to pass a bill that would make it illegal for any college or university in the state to use public monies to fund faculty membership in — or travel to — academic organizations that boycott the institutions of another country.
The Beauty of the Blacklist
Pete Seeger sacrificed to fight the blacklist. How many of us would have done the same?
The Sound of the Small C
Pete Seeger represented a musical tradition that can’t be divorced from American radicalism.
Pete Seeger, American Communist
Seeger did good — because he was a communist, not in spite of it.
The Myth of the Moderate Republican
Liberal Republicanism’s collapse didn’t spring from some loss of decency in an age of polarization, but from the transformation of class struggle in America.
Thanks, Libertarians. But We’ve Got This
Let’s have a debate over the Left and the state. But not on the libertarians’ distorted terms.
Criminalizing Resistance
The state campaign against Rasmea Odeh is part of a broader attack on Palestinian activists.
Sharing and Caring
The “sharing economy” invokes vague leftist sentiments while moving towards more precarious employment.
California English
There’s a reason conservative critics want to limit the study of literature to aesthetic experience: any further analysis might become a gateway to a political awareness they fear.
Examining the Arab Gulf: Jadaliyya Interviews Jacobin Editors
Through petrodollar recycling and arms sales, Gulf states have melded seamlessly into US capital circuits.
Jacobin Radio South Africa, Ep. 1
Our first episode of Jacobin Radio South Africa — part of an international series of podcasts and terrestrial broadcast content
The Left and the State
When leftists set themselves up as defenders of government against libertarian hostility to the state, they unwittingly accept the Right’s framing of the debate.
Chicken Soup for the Neoliberal Soul
The problems of our time will be solved by our collective capacity to change the world, not self-therapy.