When Maggie Thatcher Dies
Margaret Thatcher’s legacy isn’t going anywhere.
19477 Articles by: Ryan Switzer
Ryan Switzer is a PhD candidate in sociology at Stockholm University. He researches right-wing politics in welfare states.
The Lady’s Not for Turning
Want to know why conservatives revere Margaret Thatcher? Watch this clip.
Issue 10 Preview: “Assembly Required”
Our new issue is slightly delayed, but only for the best of reasons. We’re getting bigger and better.
BookMarx (3/28/2013)
We’re busy finishing up issue ten, but the Jacobin Politburo demands more cheap SEO fodder . . .
Why Noam Chomsky Can Sound like a Broken Record
Chomsky confronted our chattering classes’ corruption for decades. How would you sound after 50 years?
A Porn of Her Own
Anti-porn feminism takes away power from the women who make porn and want control of their work.
Black Panthers vs. Reactionary Minds
Conservatism is the theoretical voice of this animus against the agency of the subordinate classes.
Rosa Parks Syndrome in Palestine
Liberals who generally support Israel, but find themselves cringing when Israeli politicians make racist remarks, have seized on bus segregation because it packages occupation in digestible terms.
On the Anniversaries of My Lai and Iraq
45 years after My Lai, you might want to read this, from the Washington Post.
The Forgotten Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks may be lionized for her defiance on the bus, but that episode doesn’t do justice to her career as an organizer.
The View from Somewhere
The fallacy of bland and faceless reporting hurts journalism by allowing bias and prejudice to masquerade as hands-off objectivity.
House of Cards and the Liberal Imagination
The Netflix series’ cynicism shouldn’t be mistaken for considered political critique.
Wendy Kopp, Princeton Tory
What Wendy Kopp was learning at Princeton, before she was teaching for America.
The Wage and Productivity Effects of Internet Trolling
Ask not for whom Yggy trolls, he trolls for thee.
BookMarx (3/10/2013)
What you should read this week.
Venezuela after Chávez
What’s next for the Bolivarian Revolution?
The Case for Open Borders
When the Right charges the Left with advocating amnesty, we should show them to be correct.
Hugo Lives
Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías (1954–2013)
Blaming Things
Do guns kill people or do people kill people? Is it television or bad parenting that’s destroying the American family? These are worn-out false dichotomies about the political nature of technology.
Out of the Desert
Our minds and emotions are conditioned by scarcity.