Back to No Future
What use is playing the long game when the arc of the universe feels so frighteningly short?
19182 Articles by: Ryan Switzer
Ryan Switzer is a PhD candidate in sociology at Stockholm University. He researches right-wing politics in welfare states.
DNA: A Parasite that Builds Its Own Host?
Dawkins, the mechanistic world, and the “war on the beautiful”
Sympathy for Paul Krugman
Paul Krugman takes up the banner of the Luddites. Here’s what he gets wrong.
What is Union Democracy?
Bob Fitch on the Left, the Right, and what a real labor movement would look like.
Ashwin Parameswaran and the Future of Work
A discussion with Ashwin Parameswaran.
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.