I suppose it’s fairly well-known that I do not have the reflexive obsession with nonviolence in politics that dominates the minds of American liberals. Violence is usually a bad idea for a movem
There’s a long history of leftists believing their workers should have no union rights because their job is to exploit themselves for the cause of revolution. This goes back to the kind of self-
Greg Sargent has a good interview with Mike Konczal about the latter’s new book (I interviewed him for the LGM podcast as well). I thought this tidbit was especially important: How did the coron
So much of our discourse about the left today is twisted by our focus on a few online figures, Jacobin, the Chapo cokeheads, and a few other sources. This is really wrong. There is so much vitriol fro
tl;dr: The New Yorker ran a piece by Corey Robin that elaborated a rather idiosyncratic reading of Max Weber, one of the canonical thinkers of western social science. So I asked my friend and frequent
That the police are nightmarish in this nation is a huge understatement. We hardly need to explain it at this point. Calls to defund or abolish the policy are morally correct. But they are also probab
I really appreciated this Politico interview with Sean McElwee on how the left needs to be thinking about electoral politics. McElwee, who co-founded Data for Progress, came into the spotlight in 2017
One thought I’ve had a lot over the last couple of years is that the real power of the rejuvenated left will truly be determined in the next recession, not in this presidential election. The big