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Take Up the Baton
This is not a manifesto. Manifestos provide a glimpse of a world to come and also call into being the subject, who although now only a specter must materialize to become the agent of change....
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Chumbawamba’s Long Voyage
“Tubthumping became known to some purely as a drinking song. Which is fair enough, because, if nothing else, it didn’t belong to an elite group of musicians—it belonged to people. People at football...
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Power to the People
Occupy’s afterlife — a dispatch from New York’s dark zones (Jeremy Zilar / Flickr) New York’s inequality is not a secret to anyone who walks its streets, let alone struggles to pay its rents. Our...
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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? In high school I got too excited about Nat Turner during American history....
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An Obituary from Below
Thatcher’s great achievements were also what made her so vile. Her many talents were harnessed to bigoted, class-supremacist ends. Obituaries are typically concerned with the accomplishments and...
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Teacher unions offer our best shot at revitalizing the labor movement. Who would have thought that teachers, who often don’t consider themselves workers, would provide the most widespread, most...
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Art Class
In his new book, Ben Davis’s arguments too often take the form of smug, self-righteous dismissals that convey only disapproval. In his new collection of essays, 9.5 Theses on Art and Class and Other...
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Tea Party Yankees
Today’s Republican extremism owes more to the Constitution that established the Union than the secessionists who sundered it. It’s Hoover’s party — and Madison’s — not Calhoun’s In the past few weeks –...
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Trickle-down Gentrification
Luxury condo development can’t solve the affordable housing crisis — only public housing can. Old, dense, transit-served cities like San Francisco and New York have excessive restrictions on new...
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Not Another Piketty Symposium
Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century has been covered ad nauseam. But how it will change the ideological landscape remains to be seen. (Remeike Forbes / Jacobin) In February, a column...
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