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Class & Inequality

The Gadfly of American Plutocracy

Far from a marginal outsider, a new biography contends, Thorstein Veblen was the most important economic thinker of the Gilded Age.

Simon Torracinta

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The Last Man to Know Everything

The Marxist-environmental historian Mike Davis has produced a rich corpus critical of capitalism.

Troy Vettese

Class & Inequality

Think Different

Apple—now worth a trillion dollars—redistributes more wealth upward than any country or corporation on the planet.

Robert Homan

Class & Inequality

The Democrats’ Yawning Silence on Trade

The left has not articulated an alternative trade agenda that supports all the world’s workers in a global economy.

Erik Loomis

Class & Inequality

Public Benefit, Incorporated

Three simple changes to corporate law could radically remake our economy.

Lenore Palladino

Class & Inequality

The Market Police

In the neoliberal project, state power is needed to enforce market relations. But because democratic politics can demand broader economic planning, the site of that power must be hidden from politics.  

J. W. Mason

Class & Inequality, Race

Free the Beach

American beaches used to be common property. Now access to many of them is controlled by wealthy whites.

Andrew W. Kahrl

Arts in Society, Class & Inequality

Left Behind by Korea’s Success

Hwang Sok-yong’s new novel sounds a warning about the pitfalls of Korean reunification.

John Feffer

Class & Inequality

The Slow and Fast Assault on Public Education

Striking teachers and student activists have a common enemy.

Henry A. Giroux

Class & Inequality

We Don’t Need No Education?

A controversial new book highlights the dire straits of the U.S. education system, but offers misguided and irresponsible ideas for fixing it.

Jeffrey Aaron Snyder

Class & Inequality

Marx’s New Deal

On Marx’s two-hundredth birthday, capitalism’s ideology looks shakier than it has in a while.

Marshall Steinbaum

Class & Inequality

The Limits of Antitrust Enforcement

The problem of employer power runs much deeper than monopsony.

Brishen Rogers

Class & Inequality, Gender & Sexuality

The Erotics of Mentorship

The best teaching is always intimate. Today's universities make it difficult to talk about that.

Marta Figlerowicz, Ayesha Ramachandran

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