Veni, Vidi, Vici
How Giovanni Battista Piranesi’s mournful portrait of Rome shaped the Enlightenment’s understanding of progress.
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Bellamy and Morris’s Dueling Utopias
How two socialist science-fiction bestsellers invited nineteenth-century readers into a grand debate about progress.
Stop the Music!
A brief catalog of genre-changing moments in music history.
Mine for the Taking
Niger has the opportunity to nationalize the uranium industry. Will it?
Build, Baby, Build!
Two decades of unprecedented infrastructure investments transformed China. Then the country hit a wall of debt.
Make Europe Productive Again
The EU has been trailing the US economically for decades, and the COVID-19 pandemic only made its situation worse. Does Mario Draghi hold the secret to restoring Europe’s productivity?
Guyana’s Blessing and Curse
The tiny nation has discovered the world’s largest per capita oil reserves. What does the bonanza mean for its future?
Syria’s Revolution
Bashar al-Assad has left the building. It took fourteen years of bloody conflict.
Aliens Are Probably Communists
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A Strange Sort of Populism
Donald Trump’s billionaire appointees make his second administration the richest in US history.
How Much is $TRUMP Worth?
The president’s cryptocurrency isn’t doing so hot.
Socialism Is Love
Chocolate and flowers are cliché, and socialism is love. For Valentine's Day, print subscriptions are just $14.
Confronting Capitalism: Why Elites Love Identity Politics
In the latest episode of the Jacobin Radio podcast Confronting Capitalism, Vivek Chibber discusses the Democrats’ long-standing attachment to identity politics and why this form of politics can't meaningfully fight oppression.
Confronting Capitalism: Socialism in the Twenty-First Century
In the latest episode of the Jacobin Radio podcast Confronting Capitalism, Vivek Chibber discusses the difference between social democracy and socialism and how real change has been won in the past.
Andrés Arauz and Ecuador’s Citizen Revolution Movement
Jacobin's documentary, The Ecuadorian Candidate, chronicled the young leftist economist Andrés Arauz as he faced right-wing opposition and embarked on a journey to become the next president of Ecuador. It’s a gripping feature now available for free.
The Obama-Industrial Complex
Since leaving the White House, Barack Obama has been hard at work in Hollywood with his production company, Higher Ground, which signed a “high eight-figure deal” with Netflix.