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[EVENT | September 20] Neoliberalism’s World Order

Editors ▪ September 20, 2018

Join Adam Tooze, Quinn Slobodian, and Atossa Araxia Abrahamian for a special discussion on neoliberalism, globalization, and the future of democracy, or watch the livestream.

Taking Back the Wheel

Declan Cullen, Kafui Attoh and Kathryn Wells ▪ August 31, 2018

In the future heralded by Silicon Valley, cars will fly and labor will be disposable. But none of this is inevitable. It’s a political choice—that we can still reject.

Booked: The End of an Illusion

Timothy Shenk ▪ July 19, 2018

Born on the radical left and then seized by the right, has the concept of “capitalism” outlived its usefulness?

Neoliberalism’s World Order

Adam Tooze ▪ Beltway Blues

Since its inception, neoliberalism has sought not to demolish the state, but to create an international order strong enough to override democracy in the service of private property.

The World We’ve Built

Jedediah Purdy ▪ July 3, 2018

To be human is to shape the world, to create the infrastructure of our common lives. What do we do when that infrastructure becomes a trap?

Out from Emergency

Katrina Forrester and Jedediah Purdy ▪ July 3, 2018

Today’s crises call on humanity to act collectively, but this possibility seems more and more remote. How do we break the cycle? A dialogue.

Seizing the Means of Reproduction

Emily Callaci ▪ Beltway Blues

How All Politics Became Reproductive Politics: From Welfare Reform to Foreclosure to Trump by Laura Briggs University of California Press, 2018, 304 pp. Sketch for a 1976 Wages for Housework poster (MayDay Rooms / Creative Commons) In the 1970s, feminists …