A Confederacy of Kidnappers
12 Years a Slave rightly grounds slavery in economic exploitation, but reflects our era's painful uncertainty about how that exploitation can be opposed.
42 Article(s) by: Matt Karp
Matt Karp is an associate professor of history at Princeton University and a Jacobin contributing editor.
Dead White Reds
For today’s beleaguered left, it’s tempting to pine over the past. But the lives of two socialist intellectuals remind us that no one should be too nostalgic for the twentieth century.