Ashwin Parameswaran and the Future of Work
A discussion with Ashwin Parameswaran.
20418 Article(s) by: Julia Goodman
David Brooks: The Last Stalinist
David Brooks disapproves of NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden.
Reform and Revolution
A recorded interview at this year’s Subversive Festival in Zagreb.
Two Gay Weddings
The Argentine gay rights movement also fought for marriage equality. Why has it been so much more radical than the American one?
Hardhats and Hippies: An Interview with Penny Lewis
In the popular imagination, opposition to the Vietnam War was driven largely by the privileged, while supposedly reactionary blue-collar workers supported the war effort. That memory is wrong.
Conflict-Averse Liberals
A conflict-averse person is OK; a conflict-averse politics is not.
Surrealism for Social Change
A review of Ben Katchor’s Hand-Drying in America.
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford: A User’s Guide
Everything you need to know about Toronto’s awful mayor.
Gatsby and the Spring Breakers
Spring Breakers is more faithful to the themes of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby than Baz Luhrmann’s new film adaption.
Curious Utopias
A Universal Basic Income may not be much of a utopia in itself, but it points in surprisingly radical directions.
Epstein on Bangladesh: “Blame the Workers”
Richard Epstein, the libertarian legal scholar, has helpfully chimed into the discussion about the Rana Plaza garment factory collapse in Bangladesh that killed over 1100 people so far by zeroing in on who’s really to blame: the workers.
The “Fucking Hipster” Show
Mocking hipsters in the service of capital.
The Leopold and Loeb of Modern Libertarianism
“Nathan Leopold is not the only boy who has read Nietzsche.”
The Tragedy of Pakistan
The Taliban want to end democracy in Pakistan. The state won’t be able to stop them.
Italian Lessons
On the Italian Communist Party and the path not taken between the horrors of state socialism and the bankruptcy of modern social democracy.
Porno for Pirates
Star Trek meets anti–Star Trek in California District Court, as a science fiction-loving judge demolishes a gang of copyright trolls.
Behind the Kitchen Door
In Behind the Kitchen Door, Saru Jayaraman finally reveals what many of the 10 million people who work in the rapidly growing U.S. restaurant industry face daily while cooking and serving food.
Foul-Weather Friends
Radical critique from an unexpected source — the head of currency trading at a major Wall Street firm considers global capital markets.
The Children of Men
Edmund Burke to Niall Ferguson: You know nothing of my work. You mean my whole theory is wrong. How you ever got to teach a course in anything is totally amazing.