This Labor Day, Thank a Teacher
Teacher unions offer our best shot at revitalizing the labor movement.
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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.
Outside the New China
The exploitative relationship between city and countryside pervades Chinese life. Nowhere is inequality in access to public goods clearer than in the country’s urban education system.
Against Tipping
So long as the karmic tip jar clouds our perceptions, the insane injustice of an underpaid labor force reimbursed through only the guilty feelings of their coworkers will persist.
Silent Majority Music
To put it most unkindly, trap music is adult contemporary for the prosumer age.
Locked Out
With roots in the laws of seventeenth and eighteenth-century England, intellectual property protections go back to the beginnings of capitalism itself.
Degendering Value
Gendered conceptions of credit and reward are written into the structures of intellectual property law.
The Fantastic Failure of The Lone Ranger
At least Verbinski tries to bring intelligent, politically-savvy revisionist westerns back into style.
Edward Snowden and the American Condition
Law and lawyers can’t save us from the creeping police state – but politics might.