Jacobin’s quality control has never been its strength and combined with the impossible to kill dogma among certain leftists that so-called “identity politics” are a black hole that c
I was lucky enough to be on The Sound and the Furious Podcast last week, with scholars seeking to combine academia and pop culture in ways that reach out to a broad audience. The subject was “Th
I confess that when I opened this Jacobin piece on the New Victorians creating top-down moral values through consumption, I thought, “oh great another Jacobin hot take on something that does not
Here is another long essay about Trump supporters and what they see in him. The useful thing in this piece is how it identifies the divide between relatively wealthy Republicans who hate welfare progr
I really appreciate this point Bernie Sanders made recently: People are not truly free when they are unable to feed their family,” he said. “People are not truly free when they are unable to retir
Above: Not the middle class The state of mainstream country music is, to say the least, a mixed bag. The Nashville radio formula that has dominated the art form for over twenty years creates same-soun
A very interesting report showing that despite the constant discussion of the middle class in the media and by our politicians, as many Americans openly identify as working class as they do middle cla
Reading such an eloquent dissection of privilege, I can almost forget that the Atlantic also employed Megan McCardle for half a decade. But the game is rigged. I know this because I loved my craft for