The Decline of the American Empire
Neoliberalism lives and shouldn’t be given a premature obituary, but the American empire has entered a decadent phase.
19271 Articles by: T Rivers
T Rivers is a pseudonymous journalist who covers East and Central Africa.
Revenge of the Nerds
No act of consumption is completely passive, but even the most active types of consumption form a shaky ground for serious left politics.
Rethinking Care
Welcome to the “care economy” — the booming service sector that has emerged from America’s rapidly graying boomer population.
The Substance of Geek Culture
“Geeks” are more than passive consumers of corporate media.
No Experiments: Germany After the Election
What does Sunday’s endorsement of Angela Merkel mean for Germany and its Left Party?
The Numbers Racket
Rick Scott and Obama’s figures may sound impressive, but “job creation” does not equal recovery.
Higher Education Can Be Free
Oregon’s “Pay It Forward” plan is based on a neoliberal understanding of education as a commodity.
Obombya
A cartoon from Matt Bors, featured in the last print issue of Jacobin.
Class Action: Presented by the Chicago Teacher Union’s CORE Caucus and Jacobin
With your help, Jacobin and the Chicago Teachers Union’s CORE Caucus will produce a color booklet on neoliberal education reform.
Black, Brown, and Invisible
Just as mass incarceration uses the gloss of rehabilitation to hide the realities of social control, military intervention has appropriated the language of humanitarianism to disguise imperialist motives.
Different War, Same Columnist
Friedman fires more volleys of cliche into the densely packed prejudices of his readers.
An Exchange on Libya
A letter from Gilbert Achcar on Greg Shupak’s recent Libya piece.
Don’t Mention the War
With a vacuous social vision, economics confronts the “return of the social question” woefully unprepared.
Reading Material
Introducing the Jacobin books section.
Art Class
In his new book, Ben Davis’s arguments too often take the form of smug, self-righteous dismissals that convey only disapproval.
The Myth of the Hardhat Hawk
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.
Libya and Its Contexts
The Libyan campaign not only caused extensive death and human rights violations, but it may usher in decades of more war.
This Labor Day, Thank a Teacher
Teacher unions offer our best shot at revitalizing the labor movement.