Special economic zones are not just a product of the effort to free capitalism from democratic authority. They are a response to a broader anxiety about power imbalance between multinational corporations and national governments.
Fall 2023
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Know Your Enemy: The Kennedy Imprisonment, with Jeet Heer
A discussion of Gary Wills’s 1982 book on the Kennedy family.
Ending the Coalfield-to-Prison Pipeline
Boosters have promoted prison construction on abandoned mine lands as a tool of economic development throughout Appalachia. New federal funding provides the opportunity for more sustainable and socially beneficial investments.
To Hell With Poverty
In his new book, Matthew Desmond argues that abolishing poverty will require an ambitious moral undertaking.
A New Class Consciousness
For all the friendly feelings toward organized labor in the United States today, a new workers’ movement remains incipient.
When Uber Came to Town
Many urban governments have outsourced public services to private entities. In Washington, D.C., Uber enlisted the city for its own goals.
Know Your Enemy: Your Questions, Answered
In the annual mailbag episode, Matt and Sam answer listener questions about topics ranging from the influence of post-liberal intellectuals on the right to their favorite Willie Nelson albums.
The Case for a Ceasefire
It is beyond our power to bring back those innocents whose lives have already been lost, but we can work to prevent the calamity that will surely follow if Israel continues to retaliate as it has so far.
The Habitation Economy
The core analytic framework for economists on the left has not changed in nearly a century. We need a new paradigm to make sense of the world we inhabit.
Know Your Enemy: In Search of Anti-Semitism, with John Ganz
John Ganz returns to discuss William F. Buckley Jr.’s 1992 book In Search of Anti-Semitism.
Stop the Destruction of Gaza
Elected leaders across the United States are in nearly complete lockstep offering full support for whatever military operations the Israeli government is about to undertake. It is imperative to challenge this consensus.
Toward a Humane Left
To hold everyone’s humanity—that is the task of the hour.
What I Saw at the Revolution That Didn’t Happen
Memoirs of a Weatherman.
Chipping Away at the Right to Strike
Glacier v. Teamsters was not a crisis averted but another step in the right’s plan to stifle labor power.
Saule Omarova’s Plan to Remake the Financial System
What would it look like if we subordinated finance to the public interest?
Inconsistent Populists: Sohrab Ahmari and the Anti-Neoliberal Right
Tyranny, Inc. aims to build a working-class coalition between the left and right. But Ahmari cannot get around the GOP populists’ dismal record on labor.
