Mining the Hurricane
Anjali Vaidya reviews Naomi Klein's latest, "The Battle for Paradise: Puerto Rico Takes on the Disaster Capitalists."...
Your Child, Your Choice: How the United States Made Parenting Impossible
How the neoliberal rhetoric of "choice" has made it harder to raise children....
On the Defensive: Navigating White Advantage and White Fragility
"White Fragility" reads as one-part jeremiad and one-part handbook. It is by turns mordant and then inspirational....
Beyond “Carceral Capitalism”
In "Carceral Capitalism," Wang’s essays set up the abolition of the carceral state as one of the key moral battles of this century....
The Bad Idea That Keeps on Giving
Why does such a thinker as Ayn Rand persist in being taken seriously by otherwise smart people?...
Down and Out in Silicon Valley
Justin Tyler Clark reads the funny, frightening "Live Work Work Work Die."...
Is Your Job a Bunch of B.S.?
Most corporate jobs exist not to create anything meaningful but to go through expected rituals. And most people know this instinctually....
Carceral Capitalism: A Conversation with Jackie Wang
M. Buna interviews Jackie Wang about her book, “Carceral Capitalism.”...
High-Tech Bildungsroman: The Hysterical Optimism of Silicon Valley
On the cynical libertarianism of our high-tech Horatio Algers....
Human Rights and Neoliberalism
Nils Gilman offers a penetrating analysis of “Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World” by Samuel Moyn....
Delete Your Account: On the Theory of Platform Capitalism
The platform confuses capital-flow and social form, rearranging the relationship of profit to community and intelligence to organization....
Did Foucault Reinvent His History of Sexuality Through the Prism of Neoliberalism?
Daniel Zamora and Mitchell Dean draw parallels between Michel Foucault’s “History of Sexuality” and the rise of neoliberalism....
