A Note to Our Readers

Jacobin’s existence is more precarious than publications with less reach than us.

American Jacobins

Why has the American left neglected this revolutionary inheritance?

Beyond November

Thoughts on politics, social movements, and the 2012 elections.

Breuckelen Gentry

“Good gentrifiers” and the new Brooklyn aesthetic.

China in Revolt

Few in the West are aware of the drama unfolding in today’s “epicenter of global labor unrest.” A scholar of China exposes its tumultuous labor politics and their lessons for the Left.

Dance Dance Revolution

Communal celebration has deep roots in human culture. Why shouldn’t the Left embrace it?

Debt: The First 500 Pages

We need more grand histories. But 5,000 years of anecdotes is no substitute for real political economy.

Designing Culture

Design plays a central role in cultural reproduction. This isn’t necessarily a good thing, for anyone.

Eating for Change

When it comes to reforming our food system, consumer choice isn’t enough.

Fairer Sex

Let us borrow a definition from bell hooks: feminism is the struggle to end sexist oppression.

Gimme the Loot

From Blackbeard to Kim Dotcom, has piracy been a radical force?

Happy Hookers

Sex workers and their would-be saviors.

How the Left has Won

Or, why is there still socialism in the United States?

Lincoln and Marx

The transatlantic convergence of two revolutionaries.

Sarah Lawrence, With Guns

We asked a former West Point professor about teaching literature at the nation’s most prestigious military academy. What he told us revealed the truth behind the country’s most elite warrior caste — and how liberal heroes like Thoreau and the Beats inspire the next generation of “Runaway Generals.”

Terror Verde

Of far more legitimate concern than the impending subversion of world order by greenwashed commie terrorists is, of course, that the fabrication of such threats contributes to a blanket delegitimization of environmental activism.

The War of Northern Aggression

A leading Civil War historian challenges the new orthodoxy about how slavery ended in America.

The Age of Illusion

An Interview with Chris Hayes.

Two Hurricanes

Why environmentalists’ fear of bigness dooms the developing world.

Working for the Weekend

Putting full employment at the center of a new left-wing strategy.