Police said Mr Cole, who was wearing a bow tie and rather too much tweed for his age, would not reveal his country of origin. “Countries do not exist where I am from. The discovery of the Higgs boson led to limitless power, the elimination of poverty and Kit-Kats for everyone. It is [...]

The title is the fitting first sentence of David Bromwich’s review of Niall Ferguson’s latest, Civilization: The West And The Rest in the NYRB. I couldn’t read the whole piece because I don’t have a subscription to the NYRB, but I think the first line is probably sufficient. The same sort [...]

The police riot against protesters at Baruch College is the latest of many well-publicized crackdowns against protest this fall. But it’s also just the latest episode in the struggle at CUNY, where we’ve been fighting for some time against privatization, budget cuts, rising tuition, increasing class size, and precarious working conditions for meagerly [...]

Our friends at Not an Alternative were recently rentrified out of their 7-year home in Williamsburg. But the obscene 240% rent increase they were hit with hasn’t kept them down for long — they’ve simply moved house and are returning even stronger, taller and faster than before. Their kickstarter campaign is more than [...]

The battle lines couldn’t appear more sharply drawn: Fox News versus “real journalism.” That’s the way former New York Times editor Howell Raines framed the conflict in a Washington Post column last year. He implored honest reporters to take on Roger Ailes’ network, lamenting that:

Through clever use of the Fox News Channel [...]

On the two-month anniversary of Occupy Wall Street, the 99 percent poured into the streets for a massive day of protest against glaring inequalities of wealth and political power. Following nationally coordinated police raids on protest camps, occupiers face new choices about the direction of OWS.  What next? On Monday, November 28, we will discuss [...]

Much as the 1982 release of Iron Maiden’s The Number of the Beast transformed, nearly overnight, America’s heartland into a conspiratorial network of Satanic daycares, a Jacobin piece from earlier in the year, “Storm the Ivies,” has — unquestionably and perhaps unconsciously — engendered the Occupy Harvard movement and other similar Ivy [...]

Last week was a particularly bad one for inter-generational relations.

First, on Monday, was a report from Pew with the self-explanatory title “The Rising Age Gap in Economic Well-Being: The Old Prosper Relative to the Young.” Tracking changes in wealth between 1984 and 2009, Pew found that households headed by people 35 and under [...]

In my last post on Libya, I took a sort of squishy position: while avoiding a direct endorsement of the NATO military campaign there, I wanted to defend the existence of a genuine internal revolutionary dynamic, rather than dismissing the resistance to Gaddafi as merely the puppets of Western [...]