Not Another Piketty Symposium

Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century has been covered ad nauseam. But how it will change the ideological landscape remains to be seen.

Detroit’s Radical

General Baker spent his life in struggle on the streets and in the auto plants of Detroit.

When Intellectuals Go to War

When it comes to the narcissism of war, no one has quite the self-deluding capacity of the intellectual.

The Intractability of Op-Ed Habits

Has the New York Times ever disavowed its condescending editorials on the Civil Rights Movement?

Sheryl Sandberg and Harvard’s Housekeepers

Speaking at Harvard this week, Sandberg “sent word she does not have time to host a ‘Lean In circle’ with the hotel employees.”

Which Working Families Party?

With next week’s gubernatorial endorsement, we may finally reach the limits of the Working Families Party’s “inside-outside” strategy.

Jacobin IRL

Over the next week, Jacobin will be hosting events at the Left Forum conference and elsewhere in New York.

The Next Portuguese Revolution

On the Carnation Revolution’s fortieth anniversary, Portugal’s elites want to use its legacy to justify austerity.

Kiev’s Theme Park Revolution

The images of genuine popular self-determination in the streets of Kiev are empty ones.

The Problem with Mixed-Income Housing

Chicken Littles of the Right

If the Right wants to cry about class warfare, we should give them something to cry about.

Stalinism in Three Easy Payments

What better way to reform capitalism’s losers than to force them to pay to play?

White Collar Blues: An Interview with Nikil Saval

Even at a time of low pay and degraded working conditions, meritocratic notions surrounding white collar work are hard to dispel.

DIE LINKE’s Road to Power: An Interview with Bernd Riexinger

Bernd Riexinger, co-chair of Germany’s Left Party, talks about socialist strategy in the twenty-first century.

Only As Good As the Movement

Individual activists — no matter how talented — must depend on the movement they represent.

The Rise of the Voluntariat

Like unpaid interns, the “voluntariat” creates profits without being compensated, but out of a sense of altruism.

Invisible Sex Workers

Sex workers are somehow invisible when it comes to discerning the truth about their work. Yet clients, police, and others have no trouble finding them to pay, arrest, extort, rob, beat, or rape.

Adjusting to Apocalypse

Societies are going to adjust to climate change in some way — it’s up to us to push that transformation in a progressive direction.

Cuts and Scabs

A doctors’ strike could help save the United Kingdom’s National Health Service.

The Many Faces of the Indian Left

In India, even as prominent left parties falter, radicalism persists.