I’m in Brussels for the rest of the weekend, so I’m putting these up a little early before I descend into a haze of moules frites and trappist beer.

I know I said the media was failing extra hard last week, but this week might have been even worse. The Oakland march/strike/shutdown of the port was [...]

The gathering of Jacobin writers and friends near the Occupied Wall Street site was made a bit smaller by the fact that half of us got arrested. I did not. I was too busy thinking up acronyms for the new Trotskyist sect I’m forming. Two members so far, three factions.

BREAKING: Salman Rushdie [...]

Seasons change, mad things rearrange …

This is why I invest in Nate Dogg memorabilia instead of property.

Ayatollolah’s in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan.

N+1 and Counterpunch debate John Ross.  Sunkara weighs in.

Wisconsin: Demoralized and demobilized.

But some signs of life in NYC.

It’s getting warmer, Osama bin Laden is dead, bankers are creeps, and we’ve finally found time to update our blog.

Canada holds elections.  But will NDP success move the country to the right?

The “most profound essayist wielding a pen” examines Lula’s Brazil.

The bourgeois press discovers Doug Henwood.

Mike Macnair

Some of the world’s ills, explained.

Several Jacobin contributors are speaking on panels at Left Forum this weekend

“Cult Stud Mugged.”  Kevin Mattson on the Andrew Ross phenomenon.

Jacobin editor, Bhaskar Sunkara, interviewed in IDIOM.

David Hearst on Gaddafi’s desperate “ceasefire.”

Judge blocks Wisconsin law, unions scramble to beat bargaining [...]

Because there’s a whole 14.6 percent of the internet not consumed with Charlie Sheen…

Reviews of Hobsbawm’s latest: Terry Eagleton in LRB, Gregory Elliott in NLR.

Just a two months after Salmaan Taseer’s murder, Shahbaz Bhatti is killed.

But there are some signs of resistance in the United States…

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Early 2011 provides hope for both the Arab masses and freelancers earning 30 pence a word scribbling away about “Twitter revolutions” for The Guardian. 

Benjamin Kunkel covers a lot of Marxist political economy in the new LRB.

Never boring.  Michael Hirsch reviews Hitch-22.

Two, Three, Many Tunisias?

Jacobin’s Chris Maisano

Holiday merriment and feverish polemicizing mesh well.

From the Britain: Are left-wing journalists damaging the student movement?

What about “the ideological bureaucracy of the old left?”

Richard Seymour responds…

Elsewhere, David Harvey’s new book is reviewed

Tariq Ali surveys Mao’s contradictions

On Charles Dickens and his “A Christmas Carol”

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Looks like the Jacobin staff in DC are going to be joined by a slew of reactionaries.

N+1’s Mark Grief’s essay on the “white hipster” in New York magazine.

Pejoratives aside, Maria Bustillo thinks being a hipster is a wonderful thing.

The more “hardened” left is talking less lensless rims and [...]