The stories we tell ourselves about the free market shatter in a Cleveland hospital.
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Why do we talk about “reopening” the economy, as if it were a bodega or a Bennigan’s? Americans trip over political metaphors yet again.
A wave of wildcat strikes continues to spread across University of California campuses. They began when graduate student-workers […]
The coronavirus crisis shows that an economy that only rewards and protects the most privileged workers is vulnerable to collapse.
Even as it is a critique of capitalism, Bong Joon-ho’s film is also an immediate, sexual object under capitalism.
Irony prevails when the person formerly in charge of the Empire’s security apparatus, which kidnapped and deported upwards of 2 million people under her reign, is now threatening to fire a bunch of bookworms and science enthusiasts for withholding grades.
The more Bong Joon-ho’s masterpiece is regarded, the more it seems to vanish in the spectacle of its acclaim.
Nikolai Gogol’s 1835 short story “Nevsky Prospect” opens with a paean to the vivacity of life on its titular street.