The Strike That Didn’t Change New York
How do we move from homegrown resistance to a national movement?
Against ‘Community Care’
The Outsourced Self reviewed. A professional engineer who applies project management strategies to her search for love; an event planner who designs weddings that pay tribute to the singular story of a couple’s romance, a story she will also write for them; a businessman whose firm suggests his wife and children complete a performance review [...]
The Žižek Interviews
I interviewed Slavoj Žižek last April for Big Think, here are the segments (directed and produced by Elizabeth Rodd and Jon Fowler).
The Case for Cinderblocks
Reading Astra Taylor’s n+1 essay “Unschooling,” I was reminded of my first semester in a classroom. Like many student teachers, I’d been offended by the idea of myself as an authority figure. Standing in front of the class at the chalkboard felt like a lie. Was I smarter than my students? No. Did I know [...]
A Nation of Little Lebowski Urban Achievers
Now, instead of saying “our socioeconomic system is failing us,” an entire generation of children will learn to say, “I have failed myself.”
Megan Erickson
Megan Erickson is an editor at Jacobin.