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A Play with No End

What the Gilets Jaunes really want

The Austerity Myth

by Jeff Madrick,

As economic adversity continues to spread, from Athens to Madrid, London to the Beltway, austerity has become a most dangerous idea. What now dominates the world is the popular theory…

To each according to his greed

by Slavoj Zizek,

Where everybody knows your name

by Harper’s Staff,

Against school

by John Taylor Gatto,

How public education cripples our kids, and why

Social hygiene

by Lewis H. Lapham,

Light in the window

by Lewis H. Lapham,

Tea time (detail)

Art by Guy Johnson,

The American way of strife

by David Frum,

Scenes from the class struggle in Manhattan

by Steven Seplow,

The millionaire and the dishwasher

by George Orwell,