Henry Snow is a labor historian and visiting assistant professor at Colby College. They write the Substack newsletter "It Doesn't Have to Be This Way."
An effort is underway to restore President Woodrow Wilson’s reputation and laud him as a great reformer. But his best reforms were won by a mass movement, often pushing against Wilson himself. It’s that movement that should be revived, not Wilson’s legacy.
Yanis Varoufakis’s Technofeudalism offers sharp insights into the rise of “cloud capital,” but misreads it as inaugurating an entirely new economic system. The enemy is still capitalism, even if in a novel form.
Space policy is already a site of class struggle, and the mining and militarization haven’t even begun. It’s left-wing space policy or barbarism.
If political pressure and desperate pleading with administrators could fix the crisis in American academia, it would be fixed already. Instead, transforming the university will require academics to do something we’re notoriously bad at: stop working.