Erik Baker

New books examine the place of work in our lives—and how people throughout history have tried to change it.

It’s not that there has been too much student protest. It’s that there has not been much, much more of it.

By looking at the labor history of academia, you can see the roots of a crisis in higher education that has been decades in the making.

We don’t need to imagine a world ravaged by nuclear war – we’re already living in it.

Aaron Bushnell and the age of immolation.

Rather than viewing strikes as a last-resort bargaining tactic, the labor movement must embrace them as engines of political transformation.

On the moral courage of Daniel Ellsberg.

To demand the freedom to mourn—not on the employer’s schedule, but in our own time—is to reject the cruel rhythms of the capitalist status quo.

Who did neoliberalism?

What's the matter with left-populism? A review of Thomas Frank's "The People, No: A Brief History of Anti-Populism."

Social Darwinism from AIDS to Covid-19.