When Settlers Dream
A look back at the subjection of Tasmania shows that while Israel’s settler colonialism is brutal, it’s hardly without precedent.
19197 Articles by: Ryan Switzer
Ryan Switzer is a PhD candidate in sociology at Stockholm University. He researches right-wing politics in welfare states.
Jazz After Politics
It’s been years since jazz had any claim as a countercultural art form.
Black Man in the Cosmos
Lavelle Porter on race, sexuality, and the “politics of respectability.”
Policing Empire
The call to demilitarize police overlooks the longstanding link between policing and empire.
Mike Rowe’s Dirty Job
Mike Rowe wants Americans to get interested in blue-collar jobs, but for all the wrong reasons.
Escaping the New Honduras
The child refugee crisis is a product of US-backed policies in Central America.
Death to the Gamer
Tainted by its misogyny and embrace of consumption as a way of life, gamer culture isn’t worth saving.
The Right’s Working-Class Philosopher
Eric Hoffer was a conservative who only had the time to write because he was represented by a powerful leftist union.
The Right to Be Playful
This Labor Day, let’s celebrate our human right to be joyous and playful.
Students at the Barricades
Around the country, graduate students aren’t just unionizing — they are reforming the conservative, top-down unions they’ve joined.
Heroes of Socialist Labor
Planning to spend next semester learning bourgeois nonsense like calculus and art history? Intern at Jacobin instead.
China’s New Labor Insurgency
Worker militancy has shown cracks in both China’s economic plan and the Communist Party’s official trade unions.
Reading Hamilton from the Left
The Left has always favored Thomas Jefferson over Alexander Hamilton. But not only was Hamilton more progressive for his time, he has lessons for our response to climate change.
The Master’s Pools
We shouldn’t have to dump buckets of ice water over our heads to end ALS.
The NBA’s New Emperor
There’s a new commissioner, but professional basketball is just as exploitative as ever.
Reds at the Blackboard
An interview with Clarence Taylor on communism, civil rights, and the New York City Teachers Union.
The Latest Defeat
The ILWU leadership has accepted a deal that will further cripple their union.
Hegel Meets Reagan
Rick Perlstein is a master chronicler of American political absurdity. But explaining Reagan and the Right requires more than a catalog of the absurd.
The Good King’s Return
Market Basket workers are striking for a “benevolent” boss, but their protest is a reminder of the power of militant workplace action.
Love Me, Ferguson, I’m a Liberal
How liberals brought an anticommunist slur from America’s past back to life.