On-Again/Off-Again: The Relationship between Socialism and U.S. Labor
Democratic socialists want to achieve, as the late British Labour Party leader Tony Benn often put it, a fundamental and
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Marxism
The New Geography of Suburbia: An Anatomy of America’s Hinterland
From suburban dreams to suburban nightmares.
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Info-Tech Is Not the New Utopia
Is another (economic) world possible?
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Marxism and Consumer Culture
Our obsession with the question of what sort of consciousness attaches itself most readily to the culture of consumption has paradoxically blinded us to the ways in which the ideal type of the American consumer has achieved a new level of uncontested sovereignty in the political rhetoric of our market culture.
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Marxism and Little Magazines: Gathering in the Newest Left
When I entered graduate school in English literature in 2007, like many others I did so under the impression that anything could pass as “studying literature,” and that I was secretly training to be an intellectual. To study literature in the 2000s obviously meant different things at different universities. But there is no doubt that the reputation of English departments, in places like the New York Times, invariably meant that they were hothouses of what is called “Theory,” a politicized blend of philosophy from German and French (mostly left-wing) thinkers of the 1960s and 1970s.
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