Our Plans for 2014: Jacobin Needs Your Help

Moving forward, on a shoestring as ever before, here are some projects that we’re excited for in the coming year.

11/25 Event, Last Chance for Books, Posters

The first wave of Jacobin books will be released in early March 2014, with several more to come.

A Different Kind of Shutdown

Does the Left have anything to learn from the Tea Party?

An Interview With Bill de Blasio

The New York City mayoral candidate talks about labor issues and more.

Issue 11/12 Preview: “Misery Index”

Our next issue will be mailed to subscribers on August 16 and released online on September 2.

What is Union Democracy?

Bob Fitch on the Left, the Right, and what a real labor movement would look like.

An Interview with Doug Henwood

Italian Lessons

On the Italian Communist Party and the path not taken between the horrors of state socialism and the bankruptcy of modern social democracy.

Like Mike?

Michael Harrington was wrong about a lot of things, but not quite in the way Joe Allen describes.

The Next Left

A new New Deal alliance would bode well for the liberal-left, but rejuvenating American liberalism will only be a means to an end.

Fellow Travelers

It’s impossible to deny that institutionally the socialist left is in disarray.

Curriculum for a New American Century

What would a national core curriculum to prepare students for work in the Age of Service look like?

When Maggie Thatcher Dies

Margaret Thatcher’s legacy isn’t going anywhere.

Issue 10 Preview: “Assembly Required”

Our new issue is slightly delayed, but only for the best of reasons. We’re getting bigger and better.

House of Cards and the Liberal Imagination

The Netflix series’ cynicism shouldn’t be mistaken for considered political critique.

Hugo Lives

Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías (1954–2013)

Out of the Desert

Our minds and emotions are conditioned by scarcity.

Beyond Warm-and-Fuzzy Socialism

A transcript of a talk given yesterday at the Young Democratic Socialists’ national winter conference.

Socialism for a Less Skeptical Age

Capital used to sell us visions of tomorrow.

Revolt of the Wonks

The rapid integration of formerly obscure, wonkish outsiders into the media spotlight elite is easy to understand. Technocratic analysis and blogging that divorces policy from politics dovetail neatly with the noble-sounding notions of objectivity long dominant in American journalism.