Capitalism and Insanity

Liberals vs. Teachers

Liberals and Teachers: An “Examination on the Merits”

Lean Production

Inside the real war on public education.

Strike for America

Terry Moran Hates Teachers

Against Innovation

Predistribution: An Attack on the Social Wage

Chatting with the National Review in New York Magazine

The Art of Demanding

Of all the internal controversies Occupy generated, the one over whether the movement should adopt specific demands may have been the most significant.

Mad Dogs and Englishmen: Stuart Hall on Englishness

Food and Pharm WikiLeaks

The Yacht Rock Counterrevolution

It was the apogee of “yacht rock,” the ineluctable, smooth sound then dominant in southern California. Slick production, highly melodic music, and clean vocals were the hallmarks of the genre. Thematic concerns ranged from personal ads to margaritas.

Revisiting Bus Stigma

Every day, the neoliberal consensus delivers another iteration of the split between public and private that euphemizes its ongoing project of class segregation. It’s no secret that the split extends to public transportation as well.

Liberal Defence of Murder Relaunch

The Politics of Magical Capitalism

Good Debt, Bad Debt

Introducing Saint Monday

I now have my very own blog, which I guess means I actually have to start blogging again. I’ll be back soon enough with my usual ramblings about work, robots, laziness, out-of-control intellectual property laws, and just giving people money, but in the meantime I thought I’d introduce the blog’s title.

The War of Northern Aggression

A leading Civil War historian challenges the new orthodoxy about how slavery ended in America.

Sarah Lawrence, With Guns

We asked a former West Point professor about teaching literature at the nation’s most prestigious military academy. What he told us revealed the truth behind the country’s most elite warrior caste — and how liberal heroes like Thoreau and the Beats inspire the next generation of “Runaway Generals.”