
The Myth of “Populism”
It's the transatlantic commentariat’s favorite political put-down. It’s also historically illiterate.

It's the transatlantic commentariat’s favorite political put-down. It’s also historically illiterate.

Detroit's glittering revival isn't just leaving most residents behind — it's premised on their impoverishment.

At job search clubs across the country, unemployed workers are taught to blame themselves for their joblessness — not the system that produced their precarity.

Financial markets are adjusting to a “new, new normal.” But the old rules of class conflict still apply.

Hungary’s far-right party has won a crushing victory. And the opposition is in tatters.

Microsoft’s purchase of Github is the latest chapter in capitalism’s oldest story: the absorption of artisan labor into the circuits of capital.

Everybody’s talking about democratic socialism these days. Here’s what you need to know about it.

Though his pessimism about the working class ebbed and flowed throughout his life, George Orwell ultimately saw workers as the only force that could build an egalitarian, socialist society.

Italy's illustrious Marxist filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci died last week. His films explored the death of the bourgeoisie; his legacy points us to the death of the chauvinist male auteur.

Could Corbynism come to Australia? Don’t count on it — neoliberalism runs deep in the country's Labor Party.

Hygge has exploded as a cozy, comforting interior design trend. But the security and intimacy it evokes can't be achieved by scented candles alone — that requires social democracy.

“Post-work” Marxism aims to liberate us from the coercion of wage labor. But without a program for reorganizing production, it can only return us to the tyranny of the market.

Should Bernie Sanders be the Left’s presidential candidate in 2020? Hamilton Nolan and Bhaskar Sunkara revive the great American tradition of arguing about Bernie online.

Sri Lanka is being convulsed by political crisis. A lasting solution will require transcending the politics of ethnic nationalism and neoliberal technocracy.

Norway’s trillion-dollar oil fund is so important to the welfare state that they’ve even made a sitcom about it. But sound economic planning can’t be based on polluting the environment forever.

A radical Green New Deal would open up enormous possibilities for human flourishing — and allow us to reclaim the language of freedom from the Right.

Socialists can't wave away concerns about the feasibility of a future socialist society — we need to offer people credible answers.

Agriculture policy in the original New Deal sprang from a heady mix of class struggle and uneasy alliances. The Green New Deal will have to stitch together a different coalition that can challenge the dominant mode of agriculture and create a more just food system.

Last night, Jordan Peterson spouted nonsense about Marxism. And Slavoj Žižek reminded us of how deep into liberal pessimism he's fallen.

Martin Hägglund speaks about This Life, his new book about love, grief, wealth, and Karl Marx.