Dialectic of Dark Enlightenments: The Alt-Right’s Place in the Culture Industry
Did the professional managerial class give us the alt-right? Catherine Liu on Angela Nagle's "Kill All Normies."...
Marketing Modernism
Loren Glass surveys the many strengths of Lise Jaillant's "Cheap Modernism: Expanding Markets, Publishers’ Series and the Avant-Garde."...
Reverse Robin Hood: The Historical Scam of Global Development
When a world system is based on the creation of scarcity, it is the meek that inherit that scarcity....
A Piece of the Action: Recent Books on the Digital Economy
Ron Hogan reviews three new books on the digital plutocracy....
Has Society Reached Peak Globalization? On “Grave New World”
Does the retreat from globalization also mean the withering of democracy? A new book worries so, says our reviewer....
Cottage Industry: On “Dead Pledges: Debt, Crisis, and Twenty-First-Century Culture”
In "Dead Pledges," Annie McClanahan uncovers how cultural production after 2008 registers a new crisis subjectivity in the wake of the mortgage meltdown....
The End of Economics
"Geoff Mann boils the essence of Keynesianism down to a deceptively simple question: is it worth risking civilization to make it better?"...
Choose and Be Damned: Responsibility and Privilege in a Neoliberal Age
Sean McCann on two new books about the problem of meritocracy....
The Collapse of the Postwar Compact: On Rick Wartzman’s “The End of Loyalty”
Darryl Holter reviews Rick Wartzman’s new book about the decline of American labor....
The New Normal: On Dissidence, Apology, and Transcendence in Contemporary Chinese Art
Henry Zhang on “The New Normal: China, Art, and 2017,” at Beijing's Ullens Center of Contemporary Art (UCCA)....
A Dollar is a Dollar is Not a Dollar: Unmasking the Social and Moral Meanings of Money
Princeton sociologist Viviana A. Zelizer on which kinds of moneys we want to create, who should create them, and for whom....
Privatizing Public Things
Can a democracy exist without public things?...
