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Tag: Neoliberalism

Noam Chomsky and Scott Casleton discuss socialism, anarchism, and the fight for progress in U.S. politics today. 
Scott Casleton, Noam Chomsky
The Apple Carnegie Library embodies recent developments in philanthropy that should trouble us: the uncritical valorization of philanthro-capitalism and the privatization of public goods and public spaces.
Benjamin Soskis
With democracy now subject to sharp challenges, we are rededicating ourselves to it with a project that aims to pave the way for policymakers and citizens to rethink conventional options.
Boston Review
Reputational currency, like China's Social Credit Score, rebrands repression as rational nudging. And these algorithmic governance models are spreading.
Frank Pasquale

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Contemporary economics is finally breaking free from its market fetishism, offering plenty of tools we can use to make society more inclusive.
Dani Rodrik, Gabriel Zucman, Suresh Naidu
In the 1990s, Puerto Rico showed Washington how militarized policing and privatization can extract profits from poor people of color.
Marisol LeBrón

When philosophy tries to reclaim Marx, the duty to interpret comes before the duty to change. 

Bruce Robbins
The Supreme Court’s Masterpiece Cakeshop ruling continues a terrible trend of valuing businesses more than employees and customers.
Lawrence B. Glickman

Neoliberals need state power to enforce market relations. To protect it from democratic control, the site of that power must be hidden from politics.

J. W. Mason

To understand why Europe seems more balkanized now than ever, we must look to Eastern Europe's failed reconstruction.

Marta Figlerowicz

The critique of identity politics ignores the role that neoliberalism and neoconservatism have played in creating our present situation.

Samuel Moyn

America loves pitting Black intellectuals against each other, but today's activists need both Coates and West.

Robin D. G. Kelley

The modes of perception and living that we attribute to Instagram are rooted in a much older aesthetic of the picturesque.

Daniel Penny

As we heap scorn on neoliberalism, we risk throwing out some of its most useful ideas.

Dani Rodrik

Looking beyond the symbolic crisis to the realities of Title IX implementation.

Kristin Bumiller

Nancy MacLean’s new book has set off a heated debate. But strong claims require strong evidence, and mistakes could mislead liberals and the left.

Steven M. Teles, Henry Farrell

The University of Virginia has long been a bastion of white supremacy and white supremacy–validating scholarship.

Marshall Steinbaum

A controversial new book traces how the anti-democratic projects of the Jim Crow South evolved into an economic theory still championed by the GOP today.

Bethany Moreton
From healthcare to education to clean water, the things that are owed to members of a democracy are under threat today. Our new issue explores the question of public goods and what we can do to save them.

How neoliberals and conservatives came together to undo the welfare state.

Melinda Cooper

Opting out, as Trump has done with the White House, is a neoliberal habit. But who bears the cost?

Bonnie Honig

The Clinton-Sanders conflict reveals the contentious history of the Democratic Party—and holds the key to its future.

Doug Rossinow

How has neoliberalism become so closely linked with evangelical Christianity?

James G. Chappel

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