David Roediger’s The Sinking Middle Class
The middle class is the quintessential American category. It’s of foundational significance, although it is only since the Reagan era that it has had its current degree of political cachet.(...)
Postcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures
It’s tragically appropriate that Mark Fisher, whose work was so deeply engaged with the idea of hauntology, about the persistence of the past, should speak to us from beyond the grave.(...)
Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal, by Noam Chomsky and Robert Pollin
The West Coast is on fire which, grim as it is, has at least given everyone in United States something else to think about than COVID-19.(...)
Martin Jay’s Splinters in Your Eye
Few events make less sense than the demonization of “Cultural Marxism.” Fake news about its influence has done more to popularise the philosophy than at any time since the 1960s.(...)
Remembering David Graeber
2020 has claimed another victim. David Graeber, the noted anthropologist and activist, died on Thursday, in Venice.(...)
Simon Scott’s Migrations
“Red Square”, the first track on Simon Scott’s new album Migrations, unfolds at a leisurely pace. Those who favour the stripped-down aesthetic of Berlin dub may hear elaborations on the hissing minimalism of Pole or the meta-reggae of Rhythm & Sound.(...)
Field Recording Rojava
David Broder’s First They Took Rome
Italy has spent much of the last century at the forefront of European crises.(...)