20412 Article(s) by: Julia Goodman
Waiting for SCOTUS
By fixating on the Supreme Court, liberals have inherited the framers’ skepticism of popular sovereignty and mass politics.
Occupy After Occupy
Its critics may disagree, but Occupy Wall Street’s legacy has been an enduring one.
Capital Eats the World
Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century shows that not everything in mainstream economics is worthless.
A General Without an Army
For all Piketty’s mainstream respectability, it is only the radical left and the labor movement — not treasuries and central banks — that can push his program.
The European Conundrum
With last week’s elections, commentators are heralding the “end of Europe,” but the evidence tells a different story.
Piketty’s Fair-Weather Friends
Piketty’s warnings of a capitalism without meritocracy are being challenged by an ossified economic theory.
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.
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.