Gentrification’s Racial Arbitrage
When it comes to housing and gentrification, anti-racism is about more than purifying what’s in our hearts or our heads.
117 Articles by: Peter Frase
Peter Frase is on the editorial board of Jacobin and the author of Four Futures: Life After Capitalism.
Infotainment Journalism
Shoddy infotainment journalism makes data something to sprinkle on top of your substanceless linkbait.
Adjusting to Apocalypse
Societies are going to adjust to climate change in some way — it’s up to us to push that transformation in a progressive direction.
Dalton Trumbo’s Taxes
On the Hollywood blacklist and Dalton Trumbo’s marginal tax rate.
The Comforts of Dystopia
Elites tell us the future is inevitably bright; left curmudgeons insist it’s inevitably gloomy. We don’t win from playing this game.
Work It
Simply saying we should improve the quality and reduce the duration of work doesn’t allow us to ask whether that work needs to exist at all.
The Left and the State
When leftists set themselves up as defenders of government against libertarian hostility to the state, they unwittingly accept the Right’s framing of the debate.
Delusions of the Tech Bro Intelligentsia
The fight at the heart of the BART strike isn’t over whether or not to innovate — it’s about innovation that improves transit service without degrading and disempowering workers.
The Ethic of Marginal Value
Mainstream economics is an ethical theory masquerading as a description of social reality.
Property and Theft
The overthrow of all intellectual property leaves unanswered the question of how to control the exploitation of the cultural commons by digital capitalists.
Ashwin Parameswaran and the Future of Work
A discussion with Ashwin Parameswaran.
Curious Utopias
A Universal Basic Income may not be much of a utopia in itself, but it points in surprisingly radical directions.
Porno for Pirates
Star Trek meets anti–Star Trek in California District Court, as a science fiction-loving judge demolishes a gang of copyright trolls.
We Have Always Been Rentiers
The development of rentism entails not just a change in the laws, but in the way the economy itself is measured and defined.
The Perils of Wonkery
As the policy wonk has risen in prestige, we seem to have reached the point where this entire class of commentators is highly susceptible to what I’ll call “Charlie Rose disease.”
Post-Work: A Guide for the Perplexed
The basic vision of the post-work left is one of fewer jobs and shorter hours.
In Defense of Soviet Waiters
Sometimes bad service is class struggle.
Modify Your Dissent
On the rise and fall of the Baffler.
