Sympathy for Paul Krugman
Paul Krugman takes up the banner of the Luddites. Here's what he gets wrong.
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Delusions of the Tech Bro Intelligentsia
The fight at the heart of the BART strike isn't over whether or not to innovate — it's about innovation that improves transit service without degrading and disempowering workers.
11/25 Event, Last Chance for Books, Posters
The first wave of Jacobin books will be released in early March 2014, with several more to come.
Counterinsurgency’s Resurrections
No matter how many times the doctrine has proved a bloody failure, the American military keeps coming back to counterinsurgency tactics.
Toward Cyborg Socialism
The failure of the American left to engage more substantially on environmental issues at home has real consequences for the expansion of neoliberalism worldwide.
Alive in the Sunshine
There’s no way toward a sustainable future without tackling environmentalism’s old stumbling blocks: consumption and jobs. And the way to do that is through a universal basic income.
Legoland Lost
The Lego Movie’s emphasis on creative and spontaneous play clashes with what the toys have become.
The Comforts of Dystopia
Elites tell us the future is inevitably bright; left curmudgeons insist it’s inevitably gloomy. We don’t win from playing this game.
A General Without an Army
For all Piketty’s mainstream respectability, it is only the radical left and the labor movement — not treasuries and central banks — that can push his program.
Edutopia
Education is not a design problem with a technical solution. It’s a social and political project neoliberals want to innovate away.
Why We Should Listen to Frank Lloyd Wright
Properly harnessed, industrial production can reduce exploitation and increase leisure time.
Unequal Universes
Speculative fiction is an increasingly vocal critic of neoliberalism.
Can Autoworkers Save the Climate?
Autoworkers can transform their industry from an environmental menace into a machine for social good.
Combating Communalism
An interview with one of India’s staunchest opponents of religious nationalism.
Why Obama Can’t Slay Trumpism
The policies President Obama outlined in last night’s State of the Union will only reinforce the trends that produced Donald Trump.
A Coup in Brazil?
Brazil's right is determined to remove Dilma Rousseff from power and cripple any movements to her left.
All Power to the Imagination
Socialism will be the first absolute unleashing of creativity in human history.
Murray Bookchin’s New Life
Whatever their limits, Murray Bookchin's ideas should be studied by today's left.
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