Should We Abolish Prisons?
America’s prisons are grossly dehumanizing and unjust. The eminent political philosopher Tommie Shelby debates prison abolition and what kind of radical change justice demands.
6 Articles by: John-Baptiste Oduor
John-Baptiste Oduor is an editor at Jacobin.
The Right-Wing Bid to Turn Kenya Into a “Hustler Nation”
A new president has a right-populist vision of transformation in East Africa’s largest economy.
Britain’s Political Crisis Is Further Proof That It Is a Nation in Decline
The UK’s former prime minister Liz Truss came to power promising to restore growth to the British economy. During her 45 days at the helm, she crashed it. Calamity is pending, and the country’s political elite are out of ideas.
Is It Worth It?
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò responds to John-Baptiste Oduor’s recent review of Elite Capture.
Did Elites Really Take Over Identity Politics?
In his new book, Elite Capture, Olúfémi Táíwò argues that elites have hijacked identity politics — but what if it belonged to them all along?
Exploitation Isn’t the Only Thing Wrong With Work
Many people’s social status and identity are intimately bound up with the jobs they do. That’s not just pernicious capitalist ideology, Ruth Dukes and Wolfgang Streeck argue: it can offer the basis for worker resistance to the power of employers.