Rosa’s Mail
The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg reveal a revolutionary who was deeply committed and defiantly humane.
Search Result(s) for: “feminism”
Tony Benn (1925–2014)
Tony Benn really did pose a danger to the British establishment; because he continued, even after Thatcher and Blair, to inspire those pushing for radical change.
Tony Mazzocchi Was a Champion of Worker-Whistleblowers
Tony Mazzocchi was instrumental in reshaping workplace health and safety — a feat made possible by empowering workers themselves to expose hazardous conditions. Recent attacks on OSHA underscore the importance and continued relevance of his work.
On Fredric Jameson
Jameson writes from an immense sense of engagement with the world around him, and with faith in what that engagement might accomplish.
Katha Pollitt’s Quality Control
The nature of a product is irrelevant to how we should theorize, legislate, or organize the labor involved in producing it.
American Philanthropy and its Discontents
Philanthropy thrills to begging and tolerates activism, but cannot abide a demand from those it wants to save.
Happy Hookers
Sex workers and their would-be saviors.
She Can’t Sleep No More
The political economy of Marissa Mayer.
Modify Your Dissent
On the rise and fall of the Baffler.
White-Collar Populism
On the politics of professional-class anxiety.
BookMarx (2/24/2013)
What you should read this week.
On Anger and “Meaning It”
There's no need for excessive complexity — some people are worth hating.
Issue 11/12 Preview: “Misery Index”
Our next issue will be mailed to subscribers on August 16 and released online on September 2.
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.
Art Class
In his new book, Ben Davis’s arguments too often take the form of smug, self-righteous dismissals that convey only disapproval.
Different War, Same Columnist
Friedman fires more volleys of cliche into the densely packed prejudices of his readers.
Ashwin Parameswaran and the Future of Work
A discussion with Ashwin Parameswaran.