Fellow Travelers
It’s an old adage of city life: commute home to masturbate, but don’t masturbate during the commute.
Our Fiscal Cliff
Our big plans for 2013 and how you can help.
Modify Your Dissent
The rise and fall of the Baffler magazine.
American Jacobins
Why has the American left neglected this revolutionary inheritance?
Publisher’s Note
I’ve boasted about Jacobin a bunch on this page. Beyond narcissism, it’s rooted in the feeling that our improbable success is symbolic of a wider intellectual shift. Qualify that with sober acknowledgement of the Left’s marginality, include token slaps in the direction of a certain mainstream commentator, strategically add “ youthful” profanity, and there you have it – a successful editor’s note.
Fairer Sex
Let us borrow a definition from bell hooks: feminism is the struggle to end sexist oppression.
The Black Jacobin
Choosing a visual representation for a collective can be as politically fraught as the drafting of a written manifesto, and the image that graces our masthead is no exception. I presented four options to the Jacobin editorial board, but the debate boiled down to two.
Praxis
We can await Ezra Klein’s downfall, but the future may not have shit to do with us either.
Working Time and Feminism
The alternative is to change our view of what kind of work is socially valuable and to recognize that what happens outside of wage labor — work that sustains and reproduces all of us — should be held in equal esteem.
Phase Two
New politics will emerge, in part, from the cauldron of occupation.
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