Fresh audio product: the Constitution cult
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): May 30, 2024 Aziz Rana, author of The Constitutional Bind: How Americans Came to Idolize a Document that Fails Them, on how our founding document constrains democracy but we worship it anyway
Fresh audio product: Gaza and the larger political context; why people hate inflation
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): May 23, 2024 Mouin Rabbani on the war on Gaza, and the broader context of the Israel–Palestine conflict • Stefanie Stantcheva on why people hate inflation (papers here and here)
Fresh audio product: a resignation on principle and changing relations of production in Hollywood
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): May 16, 2024 Annelle Sheline on her resignation from the State Department as a protest against the war on Gaza (her statement is here) • Daniel Bessner, author of this Harper’s cover story, on the debasement of screenwriting in Hollywood
A very useful crisis
This is the text of a talk I gave at New York City DSA’s night school, Socialists of NYC series, May 14, 2024 As the 1960s were turning into the 1970s, New York City was coming off a long economic boom. Sure, we’d lost 151,000 manufacturing jobs between 1950 and the 1969 peak, but that was almost exactly offset by a gain in finance, and overall employment in the city was up 391,000. There were signs of budgetary trouble starting in the mid-1960s, but those issues were patched over with a combination… Read More
Fresh audio product: nativist neoliberalism, the Alabama ruling class
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): May 9, 2024 Derek Seidman looks into the Alabama corporate elite and its terror at the incursion of the UAW (articles here and here) • Quinn Slobodian on Peter Brimelow and the white supremacist wing of neoliberalism (paywalled article here)
Fresh audio product: criminalization of protest, hidden agenda behind anti-trans panic
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): May 2, 2024 Adam Federman on the criminalization of protest (article here) • Kay Gabriel on how the right is using the anti-trans panic to make war on public schools and teachers’ unions (article here)
LBO News from Doug Henwood 