Catherine Liu is professor of film and media studies and visual studies at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author of several books, most recently Virtue Hoarders: The Case Against the Professional Managerial Class and the forthcoming Traumatized: The New Politics of Public Suffering.
The Palm Springs School for Social Research wants to revitalize historical materialism, revive ideology critique, and ask big questions about social life. We talked to one of its founders, Catherine Liu, about gangster capitalism and the future of socialism.
The richness of childhood needs to be embraced as a social good.