“The South is Our North,” in Jacobin
In Jacobin no. 25, dedicated to Latin America and the Pink Tide, I have a short article on the problems and promise of TeleSUR. The promise: The problem that TeleSUR […]
Tag Archives: essays
Socialism’s Return, in The Nation
In my debut in The Nation‘s Books & the Arts section, I have an essay based on a reading of Bernie Sanders’s two campaign books and two volumes of essays by the left-wing […]
Fidel Castro (1926-2016), Without Illusions
I have a somewhat late-breaking obituary of Fidel Castro, up now at Dissent magazine. Rather than a straight obit, I’ve tried to take stock of the different responses to Fidel on […]
Stop calling the United States a banana republic
Up today at The Baffler, Patrick Blanchfield and I take on the morally obtuse trope of comparing the United States to a “banana republic.” It erases the U.S. role in creating […]
A Defense of Academic Twitter
At Inside Higher Ed, I have a how-to guide to academic Twitter with a prologue on academic precarity and public engagement. “Precarity helped create the new public scholar,” I argue: […]
How Karl Polanyi makes sense of politics in 2016
Update 2/20/2017: I have a related essay in the Chronicle Review, assessing Gareth Dale’s Karl Polanyi: A Life on the Left. Karl Polanyi’s arguments keep getting trotted out, thought I, without […]
Democratic Socialism across the Americas
UPDATE 6/13/2016: The full essay and the debate around it is now up at the Dissent web site, with very smart responses from Sujatha Fernandes, Thea Riofrancos, Bryan McCann, and Javier […]
