Heading Off the New Jerusalem
Imagining radical change in Palestine.
19385 Articles by: Benjamin Case
Benjamin Case is a researcher, educator, and organizer living in Pittsburgh.
A Jacobin Primer
Read the CliffsNotes, impress your fancy friends.
On Democracy and Socialism
A reply to Seth Ackerman’s “The Red and the Black.”
Fantasy Football
The cold calculus of fantasy football leaves little room for the sentimentalism at the heart of fandom.
Against “Community Care”
The Outsourced Self reviewed.
Why Django Can’t Revolt
If Django Unchained wants to capture the raw terror of slavery, why does it shy away from historical examples of black agency?
Hegemony and Sodomist Strategy
Gay Inc. against Bradley Manning.
Our Fiscal Cliff
Our big plans for 2013 and how you can help.
Strike for America: The CTU and the Democrats
How Chicago teachers took on neoliberal education reform.
Yours, Mine, but Not Ours
Why the politics of national security means that we’re all living in failed Hobbesian states.
Vague Strategy and Strategic Vagueness
There’s a reason designers describe their field in abstract terms.
Farewell to the Working Class
Debtors of the world, unite?
The Novel as Dictator
Why socialist realism loses out to avant-garde aesthetics.
One, Two, Many Chicago Teachers’ Strikes
How an uncompromising spirit lead the CTU to victory.