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John Stossel explains that, yes, capitalism does benefit workers! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vp1V1vwT4IY
Joshua Sperber
Robert McChesney’s Digital Disconnect (New Press, 2013) is an informed and engaging account of the internet’s history and likely future within the context of…
I wrote this several weeks ago, and with the recent expulsion and escalation of OWS it remains essential to couple ongoing mobilization…
The Coen Brothers occupy a Hollywood niche that implies subversion while reinforcing conservatism. “Blood Simple,” “Raising Arizona,” and “No Country for Old…
Neo-Expressionism: Reactionary Art, Reactionary Film For centuries the ruling classes have found and funded their own pet artists. Charles Le Brun, the…
It may be a questionable expenditure of energy to attack Tom Cruise’s Valkyrie. For one thing, the film’s backstory, along with its…
Much of the liberal-left media is currently claiming that Obama’s election has ended or at least irrevocably damaged racism. Michael Albert concludes that…
An observer in Weimar Germany remarked that the senile chancellor Hindenburg was a Zero who was paving the way for Nero. In…
New York, Metropolitan, 2007, pp. 576 As with much scholarly political writing, Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster…
Douglas Dowd’s Capitalism and its Economics is a lucid and convincing examination of the history of capitalism, economic thought, and the relationship…