An upsurge in business activism joined with libertarians and conservatives to usher in neoliberalism's dominance by the 1980s election of Ronald Reagan. A key piece of that dominance: Ayn Rand’s philosophy of optimistic cruelty, nearly perfect in its immorality.
What use is playing the long game when the arc of the universe feels so frighteningly short?
Boots Riley's Sorry to Bother You captures the crude madness that we live in every day under capitalism.
David Cronenberg’s first three films track the progress of epidemics “from the perspective of the disease.” What they reveal is a North American society already on the brink of disaster.
Jerry Stiller was one of those mensches from a bygone era who is almost hard to believe in now, as startling to encounter as a member of a species thought to be extinct walking into your living room.
Whether Eric Adams resigns as New York mayor or not, the city’s left will have an opportunity to set the narrative of the mayoral election next year — something it failed to do in 2021.
Male self-esteem is indexed to wealth, an unstable prospect in a highly economically unequal society. In search of an alternative source of validation, many young men are turning to misogynistic ideas. The Left needs to provide alternatives of our own.
Nationwide, “safe haven” laws allow mothers to abandon newborn children and relinquish responsibility for parenting them. The laws sound like something no one could oppose — but they’ve been a key strategy in the Right’s war on women’s right to abortion.
After the victory for marriage equality in Australia, the Right is back on the offensive with a new swathe of “religious freedom” legislation that promises to turn back the clock on LGBT rights.
Food is the easy part of the seder. For me, the hard part is making it all mean something.
A fascist terrorist attack has highlighted the growing threat of Italy’s far right in the lead-up to the March 4 elections.
The Wolf of Wall Street's eleventh hour Hail Mary doesn't atone for the rest of the film's gleeful celebration of rich assholes.
In the 1970s, a crop of books purporting to provide a scientific basis for gender inequality met sharp criticism from figures like Stephen Jay Gould. Decades later, these debates have fallen out of public memory, but right-wing pseudoscience persists.
Intermezzo, the latest novel by Sally Rooney, trots out some well-worn gender tropes from on and off the page.
The Trump administration is pushing a vicious anti-trans agenda. Unions are one of the best tools we have to fight back.
There are plenty of real catastrophes in today’s world. But from military build-up to fantasies of mass deportation, right-wingers are promising their supporters better disasters: ones where they get to be in charge.
Socialist New York State Sen. Julia Salazar has some harsh words for Andrew Cuomo’s botched handling of COVID-19, his “power grab” at the pandemic’s beginning, and his refusal to tax the rich: “It is dangerous for Gov. Cuomo to continue to be the most powerful person in our state.”
Small and medium-sized European countries like the Netherlands play an outsized role protecting international capital and empire.
Global elites have appropriated feminist language to justify brutal exploitation and neoliberal development.