Issue 61: The Internet Speaks
The bots have spoken.
20907 Article(s) by: Wouter van de Klippe
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.
Listen to Your Elders
Jacobin contributor and former teenager Sofia Baker answers your most burning questions.
“They Won’t Stop Us From Speaking Out”
Kneecap talks to Jacobin about attempts to punish the hip-hop trio for its vocal stance on Palestine and its hopes for a unified Ireland.
Why the Left Misreads Gen Z — and What the Right Sees Clearly
Leftists have celebrated the growing favorability of socialism among young people, but youth politics are more heterodox than they appear.
Can the Left Get the Last Laugh?
As SNL’s resident body-horror comic, Sarah Sherman brings Bernie-era politics — and stubborn optimism — into a moment defined by ICE raids, massive inequality, and creeping authoritarianism.
Stream of Consciousness-Raising
Hasan Piker talks to Jacobin about radicalization, the Right, and his own place in socialist politics.
The Therapist Will Raise You Now
Therapeutic culture risks raising a generation taught to look inward while the sources of their distress lie outside themselves.
Politics After Literacy
Postliteracy won’t replace reason with madness, but it might give us madness of a new and different type.
When the Pencil Was the Sword
When revolutionary Cuba asked its youth to eliminate illiteracy, 100,000 answered the call, reshaping their country and themselves in the process.
The Inheritors of an Unfinished Revolution
Growing up after the monarchy’s fall, Nepal’s youth are confronting a republic that transformed political institutions while leaving the underlying social order intact.
Generation Z in Name Only
Mexico City’s “Gen Z” anti-government protest against President Claudia Sheinbaum bears all the hallmarks of an astroturf campaign.
A War for Oil?
What Donald Trump wants from Venezuela’s oil fields is not money but power.
The Price of Love
A recent turnaround in South Korea’s marriage rate shows that its fertility crisis is also an affordability crisis.
Don’t Just Give 16-Year-Olds the Vote — Give Them Something to Vote For
Austria’s experience with 16-year-old voters shows that expanding the franchise does little to restore trust when elections amount to a choice between managed decline and the far right.
Israel’s Young Settler Vanguard
In the West Bank, at-risk youth are recast as pioneers — funded by Israeli ministries and US tax-deductible charities — and deployed to harass, dispossess, and drive Palestinians from their land.
Growing Up in Israeli Prison
Israel is arresting more Palestinian children than ever before — and it’s not even bothering to charge many of them with crimes.
When Students Struck to End the War in Vietnam
In May 1970, four million students went on strike across the country, shutting down classes at hundreds of colleges, universities, and high schools and demanding an end to the Vietnam War.
The Student Intifada
A little over two years ago, the student movement for Palestine transformed American college campuses seemingly overnight. But the passion and energy that built those encampments wasn’t enough to sustain the fight.