Is Progressive-Populism Our Best Option in These Troubled Times?
When order ruptures it leads to a state of crisis manifest in many ways, as we see emerging throughout the world. What can we do?
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Will a New Form of Socialism Rise? On Bhaskar Sunkara’s ‘The Socialist Manifesto’
Socialists need to do better in fighting against identity-based discrimination, as editor of Jacobin Bhaskar Sunkara notes in The Socialist Manifesto, but that struggle will only be effective if waged as part of a larger struggle against neoliberal capitalism.
‘Aquinas and the Market’ and the Possibility of a “Truly Humane Economic System”
With Aquinas and the Market, economist and theologian Mary L. Hirschfeld begins a necessary conversation between economic and theological sectors, in the academy and, one hopes, outside the ivory towers and seminaries, to calculate our ultimate worth.
Oscar Wilde: ‘In Praise of Disobedience’
Being humble and peaceable are not virtues, according to Oscar Wilde, as seen in his collection of essays, In Praise of Disobedience, disobedience and rebelliousness against inequality and tyranny are much more valuable to humankind.
‘Talking to My Daughter About the Economy’, and Putting Economists In Their Place
Yanis Varoufakis treats with disdain the idea that economics is a real science – it's more like a contemporary form of religion, propped up by ruling elites to make gullible everyday people remain subservient and go along with the elites' bad and self-serving ideas, he says.
Nagata Kabi’s ‘My Solo Exchange Diary’ and the Alienated Self
The author of My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness is pushing manga to new and intellectually provocative heights.
Losing the Narrative of Your Life: On Alissa Quart’s ’Squeezed’
Alissa Quart’s perspective-driven reporting on the struggles of middle-class working families in Squeezed addresses the results of America’s utterly depraved neoliberal capitalist state.
The Rationality of Violence: The Kerner Commission and the Riots of 1967
Separate and Unequal provides a riveting account of a crucial moment in US history. It offers a penetrating insight into the manner in which good intentions and just causes necessarily confront the mechanisms of governmental bureaucracy.
Why Arthur Miller and Saul Bellow’s Doomed American Heroes Are Timeless
Perpetual "losers" Willy Loman and Tommy Wilhelm bitterly struggle to survive amidst the same economic and social forces that continue to challenge their real-world counterparts today.
In Today’s Intangible Economy, Not Seeing Is Believing
Yet another form of inequality has emerged, and solutions are evasive. But to solve a problem one must first define it. To this end, with Capitalism Without Capital, Haskel and Westlake have begun a necessary conversation.
‘Where’s Daddy?’ Casts Light on America’s Dysfunctional Child Support System
This is a hard-hitting (and highly recommended) documentary about the ties that bind us and the laws that might just separate us.
Dead Man Counting: An Economic Ghost Story
Peter Fleming's new book Homo Economicus attempts to lay zombie capitalism to rest.