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A Letter to Chelsea Manning 27 Aug 2013 | 07:51 pm
Dear Chelsea, You’re making a habit out of revealing dangerous pieces of information. First, you exposed the war crimes of an imperialist state. The United States was already bursting at the seams wi...
Toward a Selfish Left 26 Aug 2013 | 06:52 pm
The Left doesn’t need a renewed emphasis on morality – instead, we must reclaim the concept of self-interest. In his excellent recent essay “Revolutionizing Ethics,” David V. Johnson calls on leftist...
An Interview With Bill de Blasio 20 Aug 2013 | 09:36 pm
Public Advocate Bill De Blasio, endorsed by The Nation earlier this month, has recently gone from long-shot candidate to one of the front-runners in the New York City mayoral race. Running on a relati...
Gramsci Comes Home 19 Aug 2013 | 10:17 pm
Our long march through the institutions is not to reform them, but to transform the common sense they uphold. With the 2008 financial crisis, the supposedly sturdy foundation of finance capital shook...
Prostitution Law and the Death of Whores 15 Aug 2013 | 06:49 pm
It doesn’t matter which political direction you come from: the topics of sex work, sexual exploitation, prostitution and sex trafficking seem like a Gordian Knot. As long as you listen to one set of a...
Just Flip the Switch 12 Aug 2013 | 06:58 pm
The trailers for Elysium promised a class-struggle masterpiece, but for all its triumphs the film’s politics don’t quite measure up. Trailers for Elysium were like catnip for the left-leaning viewer:...
What’s the Matter with Indiana? 8 Aug 2013 | 08:05 pm
How a Republican governor noted for his hostility to public education became the president of a public land grant university. Last week, Florida Education Commissioner Tony Bennett was forced to resi...
Issue 11/12 Preview: “Misery Index” 7 Aug 2013 | 10:55 pm
Our next issue will be mailed to subscribers on August 16 and released online on September 2. It’s very good — here’s a preview of the table of contents. What’s not shown below is the art, which is s...
On Geek Culture 5 Aug 2013 | 08:38 pm
What is Superman in the twenty-first century but a corporate mascot, albeit one with a lavish backstory? (Denis Poroy / AP) In 2009, a small budget but critically successful film called Big Fan hit ...
Social Democracy For Our Time 1 Aug 2013 | 07:34 pm
Most on the Left today dismiss social democracy as the fading echo of a bygone age — Lane Kenworthy disagrees. (Michael Gottschalk / ddp) To those liberals still hoping for a left turn in economic p...
