Recent pro-European demonstrations in Italy saw top liberals call for the EU to rearm. For some, it’s a passionate rallying cry — but the diversion of more funds to the military is weakening any prospect of serious European social policy.
You could get invited to an eighteenth-century salon at any time. Be prepared.
For the electrosensitive community in Green Bank, West Virginia, the perils of progress haunt our present.
Email was invented for this very purpose —[email protected].
Labor will only survive the Trumpification of America through confrontation.
When and where organized labor’s been on the move.
We binged every episode of Huberman Lab. Things are getting weird.
The progress Steven Pinker identifies is real, but so is the growing gap between what is and what could be.
We explained our issue prompt to ChatGPT and asked it to recommend five books on the idea of progress. The results — which represent the return of an AI author to Jacobin’s pages, after a somewhat clumsy chatbot interview in issue 52 — were more banal than sinister.
For veteran music critic Simon Reynolds, the “avant-lumpen” sound captures how it feels to be alive today with raw voices and synthetic soundscapes.
Yesterday Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, oversaw the imprisonment of Istanbul’s mayor, Ekrem İmamoğlu. In jailing his political rival, Erdoğan has joined a global club of authoritarian leaders unwilling to tolerate challengers of any kind.
The sci-fi film Things to Come debuted just before World War II. It was all too prophetic in its portrait of a society destroyed and then rebuilt by advanced technology.
How Giovanni Battista Piranesi’s mournful portrait of Rome shaped the Enlightenment’s understanding of progress.
How two socialist science-fiction bestsellers invited nineteenth-century readers into a grand debate about progress.
A brief catalog of genre-changing moments in music history.
The billionaire is fueling a global panic about the fate of white South Africans and misrepresenting the real problems that plague his home country.
Niger has the opportunity to nationalize the uranium industry. Will it?
As Azerbaijan reclaimed Nagorno-Karabakh, its Armenian population faced a devastating choice: flee or risk death.
The people of Greenland don’t want to be subjects of Denmark or the United States — they want economic independence and freedom from foreign control.
