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The Journalist Union Movement

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Journalists unionizing may not be the working-class revolt that those who fantasize about the revolution desire. After all, they aren't working class in a traditional sense. But like graduate students and other professionals, they are at this point perhaps more likely to unionize than working class...

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Well, this is certainly an interesting argument from the historian of medicine Melanie Kiechle. Does the pandemic mean that we need to take 19th century theories of medicine seriously again?.

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The myth of “low skill” labor

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This is a great piece by Annie Lowrey about the devaluing of labor that is does, in fact, require serious skill: Recently, I was mesmerized by a prep cook. At a strip-mall Korean restaurant, I caught a glimpse of the kitchen and stood dumbfounded for a...
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Watching reactionary libertarians try to think through COVID-19 related issues is almost painful: If you’re reading this, you should by now understand vaccinations are useful and what their intent is, even if you’re still concerned about getting one. It’s not complicated: If you lock more doors...
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