Fresh audio product: a couple of Joes, the unchanging Ivies
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): December 26, 2024 Branko Marcetic, author of Yesterday’s Man, says farewell to Joe Biden (and takes some shots at Joe Scarborough too) • Santiago Pérez, co-author of this paper, on how little the class composition of elite college student bodies have changed
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: empty Northern elites, Ukraine during and after the USSR
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): March 7, 2024 Vijay Prashad on how the North American and European bourgeoisies are a spent force, with nothing to offer the world (article here) • Volodymyr Ishchenko, author of Toward the Abyss, on Ukraine during and after the USSR
Scattered speculations on the US ruling class
This is the text of a talk I gave at a virtual conference sponsored by the Havens Wright Center for Social Justice at the University of Wisconsin, February 13, 2023. The other panelists were Ho-fung Hung and Göran Therborn. It draws heavily on my Jacobin article on the ruling class and Harper’s magazine article on the WASPs but updates them to the lamentable present. In preparing these remarks, that old Gayatri Spivak title came to mind, “Scattered speculations on the question of value.” I don’t mean to cite any more of that article, something I haven’t… Read More
Fresh audio product: nuclear power and the Russian & Ukrainian ruling classes
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): August 11, 2022 Leigh Phillips on why nuclear power has to be part of any serious decarbonization program • Volodymyr Ishchenko on Putin’s invasion of Ukraine as part of a bid to consolidate power, and how the ruling classes of both countries are political capitalists of a sort unknown in the West
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Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): January 27, 2022 Peter Goodman, author of Davos Man, on plutocrats and their pretensions • Vijay Prashad, director of The Tricontinental, outlines a plan to save the world, essentially from Davos Man
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Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): October 4, 2018 Shamus Khan on the culture of entitlement at elite schools (op-ed here) • Thea Riofrancos on the fraying legitimacy of the ruling class and its possibilities for the left
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Just added to my radio archive: December 3, 2015 Benjamin Page, co-author of this paper, on the politics of the top 1% • Alfredo Saad Filho on the political and economic crisis in Brazil
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Just uploaded to my radio archives: June 27, 2013 Rachel Kushner on art, politics, and her novel The Flamethrowers • Mark Mizruchi, author of The Fracturing of the Corporate Elite, on the rot of the managerial class
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