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Eric Hobsbawm, the Communist Who Explained History

Hobsbawm saw his political hopes crumble. He used that defeat to tell the story of our age.
by Corey Robin via The New Yorker on May 9, 2019

The Price of Meat

America’s obsession with beef was born of conquest and exploitation.
by Samuel Moyn via The New Republic on May 7, 2019

The Innovation Cult

The function of the "innovation" buzzword is to sustain the myth that business genius creates society’s wealth.
by John Patrick Leary via Jacobin on April 16, 2019

Uniforming the Nation

Standard clothing sizes don’t exist.
by Jordana Rosenfeld via Popula on April 3, 2019

Thomas J. Sugrue on History’s Hard Lessons

On why he became a public thinker, the relationship between race and class, and his work in light of new histories of capitalism.
by Destin Jenkins, Thomas J. Sugrue via Public Books on April 2, 2019

We Built a Broken Internet. Now We Need to Burn It to the Ground.

Silicon Valley veteran Mike Monteiro explains how designers destroyed the world.
by Mike Monteiro via BuzzFeed News on March 31, 2019

The Artist-Activists Decolonizing the Whitney Museum

Protesters at the Whitney and other museums are demanding radical changes to the way the art world is governed.
by Daniel Penny via The Paris Review on March 22, 2019

Debunking the Capitalist Cowboy

Business schools fetishize innovation, but their heroes succeeded due to manipulation of corporate law, not personal brilliance.
by Nan Enstad via Boston Review on March 20, 2019

Banking on the Cold War

The Cold War says more about how U.S. elites imagined their “freedom” than it does about enabling other people to be free.
by Nikhil Pal Singh via Boston Review on March 14, 2019

Geopolitics for the Left

Getting out from under the "liberal international order."
by Ted Fertik via n+1 on March 11, 2019

The New Deal Wasn’t What You Think

If we are going to fund a Green New Deal, we need to acknowledge how the original actually worked.
by Louis Hyman via The Atlantic on March 6, 2019

Wayward Leviathans

How America's corporations lost their public purpose.
by David Ciepley via The Hedgehog Review on March 1, 2019
1928 political cartoon of Republican hypocrisy for calling Democrats corrupt.

Interchange: Corruption Has a History

Seven scholars discuss the definition, nature, practice, and periodization of corruption in the United States.
by Mary Frances Berry, Paula Baker, Daniel Czitrom, Barbara Hahn, James Kloppenberg, Naomi Lamoreaux, David Witwer via Journal of American History on March 1, 2019

Bearing Risks and Being Watched

The individualization of risk that we often think of as part of neoliberalism already existed strongly in the early 20th century.
by Greta R. Krippner via Public Books on February 26, 2019

Winthrop’s “City” Was Exceptional, not Exceptionalist

A review of Daniel T. Rodgers’ "As a City on a Hill: The Story of America’s Most Famous Lay Sermon."
by Jim Sleeper via Los Angeles Review of Books on February 19, 2019
Pinkerton detectives.

Who Were the Pinkertons?

A video game portrays the Wild West’s famous detective agency as violent enforcers of order. But the modern-day company disagrees.
by Rebecca Onion via Slate on February 1, 2019

Does Journalism Have a Future?

In an era of social media and fake news, journalists who have survived the print plunge have new foes to face.
by Jill Lepore via The New Yorker on January 22, 2019
"The Age of Surveillance Capitalism" book cover

Thieves of Experience: How Google and Facebook Corrupted Capitalism

By reengineering the economy and society to their own benefit, Google and Facebook are undermining personal freedom and corroding democracy.
by Nicholas Carr via Los Angeles Review of Books on January 15, 2019

Atlas Weeps

Alan Greenspan and Adrian Wooldridge’s strange elegy for capitalism.
by Kim Phillips-Fein via The Nation on December 12, 2018
A page of Trump's first proposed budget, focusing on International Programs (2017).
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The New Arms Race: American Businesses vs. China’s Government Money

How we outsourced foreign aid to private companies.
by Brandon Kirk Williams via Made By History on December 10, 2018

Goodbye, Cold War

For the first time, we are living in a truly post-cold-war political environment in the United States.
by Aziz Rana via n+1 on November 30, 2018
Charles Lindbergh addresses the America First Committee in Fort Wayne, Indiana in 1941.

Loaded Phrases

The long, entwined history of America First and the American dream.
by Kevin M. Kruse via The Nation on November 21, 2018
Soldiers erecting a barbed wire fence at the U.S.-Mexico border.

That Beautiful Barbed Wire

The concertina wire Trump loves at the border has a long, troubling legacy in the West.
by Rebecca Onion via Slate on November 6, 2018

An Alternative History of Silicon Valley Disruption

Three recent books challenge the tech industry's myths of self-reliance and prescience.
by Nitasha Tiku via Wired on October 22, 2018

How "America First" Ruined the "American Dream"

Author Sarah Churchwell on the entangled history of America’s most loaded phrases.
by Sarah Churchwell, Sean Illing via Vox on October 22, 2018

The Archivists of Extinction

Architectural history in an era of capitalist ruin.
by Kate Wagner via The Baffler on October 19, 2018

Philanthropists Will Not Save Us

All of Andrew Carnegie’s arguments were devoted to explaining why inequality ultimately was good: not only for its beneficiaries, but for poor people as well.
by Kim Phillips-Fein via Public Books on October 17, 2018
Railway strike of 1886.

Why Strikes Matter

On the history (and future) of class struggle in America.
by Erik Loomis via Literary Hub on October 3, 2018

Teaching the Rank and File

The history of the once-ubiquitous labor schools holds lessons for any future revival of working-class activism.
by William S. Cossen via Jacobin on September 24, 2018

In the Dismal Swamp

Though Donald Trump has made it into a catchphrase, he didn’t come up with the metaphor “drain the swamp.”
by Sam Worley via Popula on September 20, 2018
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