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Life Under the Algorithm

How a relentless speedup is reshaping the working class.

by Gabriel Winant via The New Republic on December 4, 2019

Mikhail Gorbachev’s Pizza Hut Thanksgiving Miracle

In 1997, the former Soviet leader needed money, and Pizza Hut needed a spokesman. Greatness ensued.

by Paul Musgrave via Foreign Policy on November 28, 2019

Devils roasting the earth on a spit.

From Saving the Earth to Ruling the World

The transformation of the environmental movement.

by Christopher Caldwell via Claremont Review of Books on November 1, 2019

How Silicon Valley Broke the Economy

The question of how to fix the tech industry is now inseparable from the question of how to fix late 20th century capitalism.

by Adrian Chen via The Nation on October 14, 2019

What’s Left of Generation X

To be Gen X was to be disaffected from the consumer norms of the 1980s, but to be pessimistic about any chance for social transformation.

by Kim Phillips-Fein via Dissent on October 8, 2019

The Failed Political Promise of Silicon Valley

Tech was meant to help us transcend our most intractable problems. What went wrong?

by Kim Phillips-Fein via The New Republic on September 27, 2019

Clarence Thomas.

The Conservative Black Nationalism of Clarence Thomas

A new book discusses the black nationalism at the heart of Thomas’s conservative jurisprudence.

by Corey Robin, Joshua Cohen via Boston Review on September 23, 2019

How Google Discovered the Value of Surveillance

In 2002, still reeling from the dot-com crash, Google realized they’d been harvesting a very valuable raw material — your behavior.

by Shoshana Zuboff via Longreads on September 5, 2019

How Slavery Shaped American Capitalism

The New York Times is right that slavery made a major contribution to capitalist development in the United States — just not in the way they imagine.

by John Clegg via Jacobin on August 28, 2019

“I Lifted Up Mine Eyes to Ghana”

W. E. B. Du Bois died on this day in 1963. Few figures were more influential in shaping the struggle against colonialism.

by Keisha N. Blain via Jacobin on August 27, 2019

The Rich Can't Get Richer Forever, Can They?

Inequality comes in waves. The question is when this one will break.

by Liaquat Ahamed via The New Yorker on August 26, 2019

Cotton field.

How The 1619 Project Rehabilitates the ‘King Cotton’ Thesis

The New York Times’ series on slavery relies on bad scholarship to make an argument with an inauspicious history.

by Phillip W. Magness via National Review on August 26, 2019

Water is for Fighting

How a profit-driven approach to water rights left the west high and dry.

by Sparky Abraham via Current Affairs on July 8, 2019

In Defense of the American Revolution

1776 began as a petty squabble among odious and powerful elites. It soon became the lodestar of emancipatory movements everywhere.

by Tom Cutterham via Jacobin on July 4, 2019

The Square Deal

Some people called it "Welfare Capitalism." George F. Johnson called it "The Square Deal."

by Nellie Gilles, Sarah Kate Kramer, Joe Richman via Radio Diaries on June 20, 2019

Workers with a steam plough on a sugar plantation in Puerto Rico.

How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean

The expansion of banks like Citigroup into Cuba, Haiti, and beyond reveal a story of capitalism built on blood, labor, and race.

by Peter James Hudson via Boston Review on June 18, 2019

‘The Lehman Trilogy’ and Wall Street’s Debt to Slavery

If the play holds up a mirror to our moment, it is by registering slavery in a peripheral glance only to look away.

by Sarah Churchwell via New York Review of Books on June 11, 2019

A Strange Blight: Rachel Carson’s Forebodings

Reading Silent Spring today, in the hazy reddish glow of climate catastrophe, is both an exhilarating and a melancholy pleasure.

by Meehan Crist via London Review of Books on June 6, 2019

The Persistent Ghost of Ayn Rand, the Forebear of Zombie Neoliberalism

A review of Lisa Duggan's book, "Mean Girl: Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed.”

by Masha Gessen via The New Yorker on June 6, 2019

Full Metal Racket

A history sheds light on venture capital’s ties to the military-industrial complex.

by Jamie Martin via Bookforum on June 1, 2019

The Forgotten Economic Idea Democrats Need to Rediscover

A neglected theory that helps explain today’s problems.

by Ezra Klein via Vox on May 17, 2019

To Save Democracy, We Need Class Struggle

The historical record is clear: democracy was only won when poor people waged disruptive class struggle against the rich.

by Adaner Usmani via Jacobin on May 13, 2019

Eric Hobsbawm, the Communist Who Explained History

Hobsbawm saw his political hopes crumble. He used that defeat to tell the story of our age.

by Corey Robin via The New Yorker on May 9, 2019

The Price of Meat

America’s obsession with beef was born of conquest and exploitation.

by Samuel Moyn via The New Republic on May 7, 2019

The Innovation Cult

The function of the "innovation" buzzword is to sustain the myth that business genius creates society’s wealth.

by John Patrick Leary via Jacobin on April 16, 2019

Uniforming the Nation

Standard clothing sizes don’t exist.

by Jordana Rosenfeld via Popula on April 3, 2019

Thomas J. Sugrue on History’s Hard Lessons

On why he became a public thinker, the relationship between race and class, and his work in light of new histories of capitalism.

by Destin Jenkins, Thomas J. Sugrue via Public Books on April 2, 2019

We Built a Broken Internet. Now We Need to Burn It to the Ground.

Silicon Valley veteran Mike Monteiro explains how designers destroyed the world.

by Mike Monteiro via BuzzFeed News on March 31, 2019

The Artist-Activists Decolonizing the Whitney Museum

Protesters at the Whitney and other museums are demanding radical changes to the way the art world is governed.

by Daniel Penny via The Paris Review on March 22, 2019

Debunking the Capitalist Cowboy

Business schools fetishize innovation, but their heroes succeeded due to manipulation of corporate law, not personal brilliance.

by Nan Enstad via Boston Review on March 20, 2019

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