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This is Your America

Why Frederick Douglass Still Matters

June 15, 2018 • by Neil Roberts

I’m worried. Very worried. But don’t mistake my worrying for pessimism or, worse, nihilism. Rather, I worry because I see a nation, with its connection to a wider world, unraveling right in front of us. Daily attempts to shatter what constitutes citizenship contribute to this entropy. There’s no immediate solution ...

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The Corporate Outer Circle Goes to Washington

Trump and the Divided Politics of the Corporate Elite

June 7, 2018 • by Jennifer Heerwig and Joshua Murray

Trump’s background in business is, by now, very familiar: Trump owns and manages the Trump Organization, a privately held real estate and development conglomerate. The Trump Organization’s control over billions of dollars in assets and thousands of employees make Trump a member of what sociologists call the corporate elite. These ...

The Corporate Outer Circle Goes to Washington

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The Scab

One who gives more value for the same price than another.

May 8, 2018 • by Jack London

"Such is the tangle of conflicting interests in a tooth-and-nail society that people cannot avoid being scabs, are often made so against their desires, and unconsciously" [Although the author of this paper has been chiefly known to the readers of the Atlantic as a writer of stories of the Klondike, he has given ...

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Trump’s Bottling of Old Wine

Can we finally lose our bipartisan taste for workfare?

April 23, 2018 • by John Krinsky

It is tempting to see President Trump’s executive order directing his agencies to find ways to require work as a condition for receiving means-tested benefits as another example of his outsized callousness. By casting all means-tested aid programs as “welfare,” Trump’s executive order supersizes “workfare” by linking benefits to work. There are ...

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Is Amartya Sen 21st Century’s ‘Great Critic’ of Capitalism?

A response to Tim Rogan

April 19, 2018 • by Aabid Firdausi and Nandita Shivakumar

Tim Rogan, in an essay recently published by Aeon, claims that Amartya Sen is the “Century’s Great Critic of Capitalism.” He states that Sen deserves this attribute because of his groundbreaking approach to capitalist critique, wherein he combines the moral and material critiques of capitalism that have hitherto remained two distinct ...

Is Amartya Sen 21st Century’s ‘Great Critic’ of Capitalism?

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Observing the Social Content of Economic Competition

A report of new findings

April 9, 2018 • by Paulo L. dos Santos

“All that frenetic switching between left and right means something. It’s not random noise. It’s as if you’re flipping a coin. Of course you expect as many heads as tails, but instead you get twice as many heads as tails. So you conclude that the coin is loaded, in our ...

Observing the Social Content of Economic Competition

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Courage Before the Break

Agnes Heller’s Theory of “Radical Needs” Revisited

March 30, 2018 • by Max L. Feldman

“Good persons exist, how are they possible?” With this question, inimitable Hungarian philosopher Agnes Heller outlines her philosophical territory. As readers of critical theory, it is hard to know how to begin expressing our admiration for the energetic grande dame of our tradition. One anecdote might suffice: Heller’s mentor, the great, but ...

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As West Virginia Goes…

Reflections on the West Virginia Teacher’s Strike

March 27, 2018 • by Ken Fones-Wolf

For the second time in eighteen months, West Virginia has become a bellwether for the nation according to many pundits. In the fall of 2016, reporters latched onto “Trump whisperer” J. D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy, to explain why the once solidly Democratic state now led the country in voting for the ...

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Biofinance

Biological foundations of capital imaginaries

March 13, 2018 • by Marc Aziz Michael

Capitalism has been the subject of too many conflicting definitions for any of the claims that follow to have any purchase on truth -- understood as an adequation to the real. Beneath the numerous disagreements, however, a common substratum can be gleaned between the liberal Smithian, and the classical Marxist ...

International Women's Strike NYC

Student Workers on the Line

The New School and its policy regarding student employees

March 8, 2018 • by Louisa Strothman

On the day of the International Women’s Strike, we offer an update on the situation of the student workers union at the New School. We are still here. We are still fighting. We stand strong in our commitment to participatory democracy and collective bargaining. SENS-UAW 7902 and the International Women’s Strike follow the vision ...