A Jacobin Primer
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Modify Your Dissent
The rise and fall of the Baffler magazine.
The Flood Next Time
What happens after disaster?
The Red and the Black
The economics of a feasible socialism.
Issue 9
Modify Your Dissent
Editorial
Our Fiscal Cliff
Our big plans for 2013 and how you can help.
Modify Your Dissent
The rise and fall of the Baffler magazine.
Essays
Yours, Mine, but Not Ours
Why the politics of national security means that we’re all living in failed Hobbesian states.
Radicalizing Repression (print only)
How state repression sets off radiating outrage towards police, prosecutors, and the social order they produce.
She Can’t Sleep No More
The political economy of Marissa Mayer.
The Flood Next Time
What happens after disaster?
The Red and the Black
The economics of a feasible socialism.
Lean Production
Inside the real war on public education.
Culture
Vague Strategy and Strategic Vagueness (print only)
There’s a reason designers describe their field in abstract terms.
The Novel as Dictator (print only)
Why socialist realism loses out to avant-garde aesthetics.
Sex House and the Refusal to Fuck
The problem for reality TV is that real life is too dull to make compelling TV, but compelling TV is obviously contrived.
Special Topic: The CTU Strike
Strike for America: The CTU and the Democrats
Chicago teachers against neoliberalism.
One, Two, Many Chicago Teachers’ Strikes (print only)
How an uncompromising spirit led the CTU to victory.
Special Topic: Strike Debt
Farewell to the Working Class (print only)
Debtors of the world unite?
The Soul of Student Debt
Not quite feudalism, student debt is a peculiarly capitalist form of social control.
Online Exclusive
Why Django Can’t Revolt
If Django Unchained wants to capture the raw terror of slavery, why does it shy away from historical examples of black agency?
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