For Ken Klippenstein, Against Censorship
Twitter’s banning of Ken Klippenstein and suppression of his journalism should be a wake-up call that tech censorship is a threat to press freedom across the political spectrum.
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Wouter van de Klippe is a freelance journalist and writer based in Europe. He is particularly interested in organized labor, social and environmental justice, and social welfare states.
An Appreciation of Maggie Smith
Beloved actor Maggie Smith died yesterday at 89. To understand her brilliance, look no further than her complex performance in the 1969 film The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.
How Bad Would a Trump Presidency Be for Labor?
The Right has given us plenty of indications of the dangers a second Trump term could pose to labor. To see how bad things might get, we can look to another example of a brutally anti-labor presidency: Ronald Reagan’s.
In Austria, Communists Could Get Back Into Parliament
Austria’s Communist Party hasn’t had an MP since 1959. But after years showing its worth in bread-and-butter local campaigns, the party has a realistic chance of a breakthrough in Sunday’s general election.
Jacobin Joins the #Resistance
Jacobin Joins the #Resistance
One Week in the Mind of Tim Snyder
The historian documents history in real time.
All That Remains of Neoliberal Identity Politics Is Fascism
Mainstream Democrats are moving away from identity politics — but the Right has doubled down.
Zohran Mamdani: Eric Adams Must Go
Mayor Eric Adams claimed to speak for New York City’s working class. Then, a federal indictment asserts, he sold them out for luxury travel and a fraudulent straw donor scheme. He must resign now, says socialist New York Assembly member Zohran Mamdani.
Eric Adams Said Crime Is Out of Control. He Would Know.
Eric Adams is now the first sitting New York mayor to face criminal charges. Yet his worst actions — cutting budgets for schools, libraries, childcare, and anything else he could in his single-minded quest for more austerity — have been perfectly legal.
Is Hollywood Still Liberal?
Charting the political orientation of recent blockbuster cinema.
The Right Without Wrong
For decades, liberals have hoped for the de-Christianization of the American Right. It’s not all it’s cracked up to be.
For Christ’s Sake
American evangelicals have spent millions exporting Christian conservatism to Africa.
The Rise of a New Right
David Austin Walsh, a historian of American conservatism, talks to Jacobin about J. D. Vance, Project 2025, and the New Right’s political theory.
The Lyric Composers of the Concentration Camps
When German fascism came to power, it interrupted a revolutionary experiment in freedom exemplified by two classical composers: Arnold Schoenberg and Hanns Eisler.
H-Pop
For centuries, working-class musicians have raged against the machine.
The Nutty ’90s
John Ganz’s When the Clock Broke offers a tour of ’90s politics, from Klansmen strangled on talk shows to a drugged-up George H. W. Bush running for office.
Manifesto Destiny
“National Conservatism: A Statement of Principles” contains ten guiding ideals for the New Right.
The Quiet Death of National Review
With the rise of MAGA in the ranks of the GOP, the Right no longer needs a veneer of intellectualism.
Guess Who?
The political singularity consumes us all.
Tech Turncoats
Elon Musk isn’t the only Silicon Valley somebody to leave the Dems in the dust.