Different War, Same Columnist
Friedman fires more volleys of cliche into the densely packed prejudices of his readers.
Blog
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.
Vonnegut and Labor
Can literature be a force in the fight for economic justice?
Property and Theft
The overthrow of all intellectual property leaves unanswered the question of how to control the exploitation of the cultural commons by digital capitalists.
She Came to Riot
The memory of riot grrrl deepens the divide between cultural and material feminism, hobbling critiques of inequality by mistaking self-improvement for revolution.
Beyond Windsor
Queer theory fought the marriage equality movement and lost. What comes next will require scholars to come out of their journals and into the streets.