Meeting Labor’s Moment: On Hamilton Nolan’s “The Hammer”
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Joseph A. McCartin reviews “The Hammer: Power, Inequality, and the Struggle for the Soul of American Labor ..read more
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A Tax Haven in a Heartless World: On Melinda Cooper’s “Counterrevolution”
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Sarah Brouillette reviews Melinda Cooper’s “Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance ..read more
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All Together Now: On Leah Hunt-Hendrix and Astra Taylor’s “Solidarity”
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Edward Carver reviews Leah Hunt-Hendrix and Astra Taylor’s “Solidarity: The Past, Present, and Future of a World-Changing Idea ..read more
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A Democratic and Peaceful Existence: On Jonathan Sullivan and Lev Nachman’s “Taiwan”
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Catherine Chou discusses “Taiwan: A Contested Democracy Under Threat” by Jonathan Sullivan and Lev Nachman ..read more
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From Aspiration to Constriction: On Three New Books Examining Change in China
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Martin Laflamme reviews three recent books that help understand the opening of China during the 1980s–2000s, and its closing again under Xi Jinping’s ..read more
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Speculative Finance and Predatory Abstraction: On Jonas Eika’s “After the Sun”
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2M ago
Ali Rıza Taşkale analyzes the way Jonas Eika’s short story collection “After the Sun” critiques speculative finance and offers new ways to imagine ..read more
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Rethinking the Work Ethic: On Elizabeth Anderson’s “Hijacked”
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3M ago
Helen Hester reviews Elizabeth Anderson’s “Hijacked: How Neoliberalism Turned the Work Ethic Against Workers and How Workers Can Take It Back ..read more
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Race, Money, and the Pursuit of Poetry in the US Today: A Conversation with Megan Fernandes and Edgar Kunz
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4M ago
Natasha Hakimi Zapata interviews Megan Fernandes and Edgar Kunz about their new poetry collections ..read more
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Empire and Liberalism—a Saidian Reading: On Jeanne Morefield’s “Unsettling the World”
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Conor McCarthy reviews Jeanne Morefield’s “Unsettling the World: Edward Said and Political Theory ..read more
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Capitalists Inside a Communist State: On Two Books and the Puzzle of Chinese Billionaires
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5M ago
Carey Mott reviews two books about the blurred lines between communism and capitalism in China: Christopher Marquis and Kunyuan Qiao’s “Mao and Markets: The Communist Roots of Chinese Enterprise” and Scott Moore’s “China’s Next Act: How Sustainability and Technology Are Reshaping China’s Rise and the World’s Future ..read more
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