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Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World

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Malcolm Harris, left, and the cover of his book "Palo Alto," right. (Photo by Julia Burke)

The Obscene Invention of California Capitalism

A new history examines Silicon Valley, Palo Alto, the West Coast's settler ideology, and recent turbulence in the world of tech.

by Malcolm Harris, Emma Hager via The Nation on March 15, 2023

Six frames of a rider on his horse going through the motions of trotting.

Palo Alto’s First Tech Giant Was a Horse Farm

The region has been in the disruption business for nearly 150 years.

by Malcolm Harris via The Atlantic on February 8, 2023

Just Beans

What was ethical consumption under capitalism?

by Malcolm Harris via The Drift on October 20, 2022

Newspaper lithograph of people fleeing the yellow fever epidemic on a boat in Mississippi.

The Sick Society

The story of a regional ruling class that struck a devil’s bargain with disease, going beyond negligence to cultivate semi-annual yellow fever epidemics.

by Malcolm Harris, Kathryn Olivarius via n+1 on September 2, 2022

Stewart Brand’s Dubious Futurism

What did the creator of the Whole Earth Catalog stand for?

by Malcolm Harris via The Nation on June 13, 2022

Ten Years After the Crash, We Are Still Living in the World It Brutally Remade

A seismic reading of the financial earthquake and its aftershocks, including those that still jolt us today.

by Christopher Caldwell, Malcolm Harris, Frank Rich, Timothy Shenk, Hanna Rosin, Rachael Combe, Sarah Leonard, Lauren Levy, Heather Havrilesky, Allison P. Davis via Intelligencer on August 5, 2018

Did you know the CIA _____?

Errol Morris and the hot cold war.

by Malcolm Harris via n+1 on March 7, 2018

The Birth of the Ku Klux Brand

A new book re-traces the origins of the 19th-century KKK, which began as a social club before swiftly moving to murder.

by Malcolm Harris via Pacific Standard on February 19, 2016

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