Smokey Bear, the UN, and Hitler
How Alex Jones won an audience for his idiosyncratic blend of conspiracy theory and libertarianism.
Search Result(s) for: “Kissinger”
Trump’s Middle-Class Army
Trump's narrative of American decline has captured a bitter and embattled middle class.
In the Bag
The implosion of Trump's campaign should give lesser-evil Clinton supporters space to criticize her policies. Why are they still silent?
Six Ways to Unsettle Colleagues and Irritate Administrators
We need to be uncivil to preserve academic freedom and take on the corporate university.
Tom Hayden (1939–2016)
Tom Hayden and the radicals who built Students for a Democratic Society weren't products of "the 1960s counterculture." They were political from start to finish.
Marilyn Young (1937–2017)
Militarism runs deep in the United States, but historian Marilyn Young never gave up believing that it could be overcome.
The Empire’s Amnesia
When it comes to imperialism, Latin America never forgets, and the United States never remembers.
Trump After One
A Jacobin roundtable on Trump's first year in office.
Wars for Millionaires and Billionaires
One place where Bernie could've learned from Jezza — foreign policy.
The “Smart Imperialism” Crowd
A new diplomatic memoir makes a "national interest" case for warmer relations with Cuba.
Poets and Scoundrels of the Beautiful Game
As another World Cup begins, there is no better guide to its joys and iniquities than the late Eduardo Galeano — a lifelong fighter for justice and “beggar for good soccer.”
Gene Sharp, the Cold War Intellectual Whose Ideas Seduced the Left
Gene Sharp has been called the most important American political figure you’ve never heard of. How did a militant Cold Warrior come to wield so much influence in protest movements from Venezuela to the Middle East?
Anthony Bourdain (1956–2018)
Anthony Bourdain’s genius was not in the kitchen. His genius was in knowing which side he was on.
Mike Gravel Is the Anti–Joe Biden
Jacobin interviews maverick presidential candidate Mike Gravel. A scourge of American imperialism and an old-school populist, the former Alaska senator is the anti-Joe Biden.
Richard Pipes, the Historian as Essentialist
For Richard Pipes, the anticommunist ideologue and historian, Soviet tyranny was rooted not in communism, but in the Russian soul.
The Jerry Lewis of International Diplomacy
Is Trump’s foreign policy the work of an incompetent ignoramus or a strategic genius? The answer may surprise you.
The Paradox of the Pro-Trump #Resistance
Jon Kyl will make a fitting Senate replacement for John McCain. He’s hailed by Trump critics — and a stalwart supporter of Trump and his agenda.
A Thousand Points of Shite
How George H. W. Bush paved the way for Trumpism.
You Can Have Brandeis or You Can Have Debs
Elizabeth Warren’s political tradition is the left edge of middle-class liberalism; Bernie Sanders hails from America’s socialist tradition. Don’t confuse the two.
The Worst Diplomat in the World
Jair Bolsonaro’s chief foreign policy architect is combining rabid nationalist rhetoric with pathetic submissiveness to the United States.