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20896 Article(s) by: Ryan Switzer
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Ryan Switzer is a PhD candidate in sociology at Stockholm University. He researches right-wing politics in welfare states.
The Devil’s Music
Years and years before gangster rap, satanic lyrics, glam rock, and Led Zeppelin’s groupie antics, good old-fashioned rock ‘n’ roll — the chosen music of the postwar youth — roused nothing less than a full-blown moral panic across America. Here are the songs most responsible.
The View From the Arena
Dystopian teen films will remain popular as long as they keep reflecting truths about young people’s prospects under capitalism.
What’s on a Leftist Teenager’s Bookshelf?
We surveyed 1,789 socialist teens. Here’s what they’re reading before prom.
How Adults Took Over YA
By treating young adult fiction as a laboratory for professional-class moralizing, the publishing industry has effectively abandoned actual teens.
The Minecraft Marxists
The proletarian revolution is playing out on a desktop near you.
Kid-Free Zones
Public spaces are replete with laws and design choices that limit teens’ access to them.
Issue 61: The Internet Speaks
The bots have spoken.
Listen to Your Elders
Jacobin contributor and former teenager Sofia Baker answers your most burning questions.
“They Won’t Stop Us From Speaking Out”
Kneecap talks to Jacobin about attempts to punish the hip-hop trio for its vocal stance on Palestine and its hopes for a unified Ireland.
Why the Left Misreads Gen Z — and What the Right Sees Clearly
Leftists have celebrated the growing favorability of socialism among young people, but youth politics are more heterodox than they appear.
Can the Left Get the Last Laugh?
As SNL’s resident body-horror comic, Sarah Sherman brings Bernie-era politics — and stubborn optimism — into a moment defined by ICE raids, massive inequality, and creeping authoritarianism.
Stream of Consciousness-Raising
Hasan Piker talks to Jacobin about radicalization, the Right, and his own place in socialist politics.
The Therapist Will Raise You Now
Therapeutic culture risks raising a generation taught to look inward while the sources of their distress lie outside themselves.
Politics After Literacy
Postliteracy won’t replace reason with madness, but it might give us madness of a new and different type.
When the Pencil Was the Sword
When revolutionary Cuba asked its youth to eliminate illiteracy, 100,000 answered the call, reshaping their country and themselves in the process.
The Inheritors of an Unfinished Revolution
Growing up after the monarchy’s fall, Nepal’s youth are confronting a republic that transformed political institutions while leaving the underlying social order intact.