Socialism

Is Poverty Necessary?

By Harper’s Magazine, on June 5, 2019

Who generates value in the modern economy, and who should benefit? Read More

Is Poverty Necessary?

By Marilynne Robinson,

In 1989 I published a book about a plutonium-producing nuclear complex in England, on the coast of the Irish Sea. The plant is called Sellafield now. In 1957, when it…

The Ghosts of Versailles

By Kevin Baker,

Ahundred years ago this month, the First World War shuddered to a close. The end came when the armistice took effect on the Western Front at 11 am on November…

Labor’s Schoolhouse

By Garret Keizer,

Around the time that Donald Trump became the Republican Party’s nominee for president, my wife and I visited the American Labor Museum at the Botto House National Landmark, in Haledon,…

City of Gilt

By Tanya Gold,

In the early 1980s the Southwark side of the River Thames was a wasteland. It had a power station with a tower — a rude finger — for emphasis; you,…

Left of Bernie

By Garret Keizer,

In the fall of 2014, I attended a public dialogue on “Revolution and Religion” between Bob Avakian, chairman and cofounder of the Revolutionary Communist Party, and Cornel West, professor of…

To Laugh That We May Not Weep

By Art Spiegelman,

Art Young would have turned 150 years old this month, and the finest gift we could have given him is Bernie Sanders’s campaign to welcome socialism back into America’s parlor…

Why dogs go after mail carriers

By Garret Keizer,

Consider the Germans

By Thomas Geoghegan,

To each according to his greed

By Slavoj Zizek,

Teen Socialist Idols

By Tracie McMillan, Oscar Owens,

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Is Poverty Necessary?

Is Poverty Necessary?

The Ghosts of Versailles

Labor’s Schoolhouse

City of Gilt

Left of Bernie

To Laugh That We May Not Weep

Why dogs go after mail carriers

Consider the Germans

To each according to his greed

Teen Socialist Idols

July 1999