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    Eleven Theses on Socialist Revolution
    • Aug 22, 2021
    • 16 min

    Eleven Theses on Socialist Revolution

    The good folks at DSA (of which I'm a proud member) were kind enough to publish the following article recently in their online...
    The rise of right-wing libertarianism since the 1950s
    • Apr 5, 2021
    • 30 min

    The rise of right-wing libertarianism since the 1950s

    Sometimes as I read books I like to simultaneously summarize them, to facilitate the intellectual digestion. And also to post my notes...
    The history of tax increment financing in Chicago
    • Sep 11, 2020
    • 35 min

    The history of tax increment financing in Chicago

    Here's a very dry paper I wrote for a class in 2012. I thought I should know more about urban public policy, so I decided to research the...
    From Steve Fraser's "The Age of Acquiescence"
    • Sep 8, 2020
    • 22 min

    From Steve Fraser's "The Age of Acquiescence"

    I just finished reading Steve Fraser's masterful The Age of Acquiescence (2014), which compares the popular responses to America's two...
    The commodification of education
    • Sep 5, 2020
    • 5 min

    The commodification of education

    David Noble's essay "Digital Diploma Mills," written in the 1990s, is a brilliant and still timely critique of the automation and...
    "Social Democracy Is the Best Form of Government"
    • May 28, 2018
    • 5 min

    "Social Democracy Is the Best Form of Government"

    [As an undergraduate at Wesleyan University I wrote hundreds of essays not all of which, I think, are worthless. Here's a short one on...
    Climate change, capitalism, and state violence
    • Jul 27, 2016
    • 10 min

    Climate change, capitalism, and state violence

    In an age when the State is daily demonstrating its willingness, or rather its extraordinary eagerness, to brutally repress dissent and...
    The meatpacking industry; or, hell on earth
    • Jul 22, 2016
    • 5 min

    The meatpacking industry; or, hell on earth

    Here are some excerpts from a review article of a book I’m reading called Slaughterhouse (1997), by Gail Eisnitz: [....] The agony starts...
    "Sunbelt capitalism"
    • Jun 15, 2016
    • 3 min

    "Sunbelt capitalism"

    [Random journal notes.] Reading Elizabeth Tandy Shermer’s Sunbelt Capitalism: Phoenix and the Transformation of American Politics (2013)....
    The U.S. in Central America
    • Jan 25, 2016
    • 9 min

    The U.S. in Central America

    Notes on a classic. (See also these notes.)— In Inevitable Revolutions: The United States in Central America (1993), Walter LaFeber...
    Glib thoughts on the fall of capitalism
    • Jan 24, 2016
    • 2 min

    Glib thoughts on the fall of capitalism

    The fulfillment of the [Marxian] prophecy.— As capital has become more mobile internationally since the 1970s (the era of globalization),...
    Fragments on bourgeois ideologists
    • Jan 12, 2016
    • 6 min

    Fragments on bourgeois ideologists

    On neoclassical economics.— Milton Friedman wrote a famous article in 1953 called “The Methodology of Positive Economics,” in which he...
    To see the Holocaust in a grain of sand
    • Apr 8, 2015
    • 7 min

    To see the Holocaust in a grain of sand

    Part 2 of "Thoughts on the 70th anniversary of the end of the Holocaust." Part 1 is here.— While the industrialized murder of six million...
    Capitalist fratricide (i.e., neoliberalism)
    • Apr 5, 2015
    • 2 min

    Capitalist fratricide (i.e., neoliberalism)

    The nation-state and capitalism were born as twins from the fertile, ancient womb of greed and power-hunger. They grew up together, were...
    Notes on the history of neoliberalism
    • Oct 11, 2014
    • 8 min

    Notes on the history of neoliberalism

    Reading A Brief History of Neoliberalism (2005), by David Harvey. The inflation of the 1970s, as you may know, resulted largely from...
    A dying society
    • Sep 24, 2014
    • 2 min

    A dying society

    For-profit justice.— What’s going on in the prison-industrial complex is almost literally unbelievable. Just read Punishment for Sale:...

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