Nostalgia for a bygone gender regime is more than a weird social media trend. It reflects larger system pressures — on elites facing technological disruption that might generate social unrest, and on ordinary women buckling under the weight of modern work.
New research on love and intimacy shows that love remains one of the few forces capable of remaking us.
Restoring big ideas.
There's no need for excessive complexity — some people are worth hating.
Jameson writes from an immense sense of engagement with the world around him, and with faith in what that engagement might accomplish.
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.
Philanthropy thrills to begging and tolerates activism, but cannot abide a demand from those it wants to save.
Podemos leader Pablo Iglesias on radical politics and what it takes to build mass movements.
Late in life, Michel Foucault developed a curious sympathy for neoliberalism.
The last year in Jacobin, lovingly compiled.
Syriza is the Left's best chance at success in a generation. But for socialists, the hard part starts after election day.
Austria’s far-right Freedom Party has deployed populist rhetoric to swell its base. Now the party is eyeing state power.
A generation ago, socialists and civil rights activists tried to transform the Democratic Party. Why did they fail?
After its financial crisis, Iceland put bankers in jail. But it didn't rein in capital.
Sweden's radical left was never able to build the strength necessary to go beyond — or even fully preserve — the welfare state.
In the Netherlands, the Right is dominating debates on European integration and refugees.
Though often condemned to the fringes of American political life, the radical left has changed the course of US history.
Whatever their limits, Murray Bookchin's ideas should be studied by today's left.
The rise of Islamophobia in France grew out of elites' need to manage working-class resistance.
