Community Standards
The Right is trying to essentialize Muslims. The Left should not fall into the same trap.
126 Article(s) by: Seth Ackerman
Seth Ackerman is an editor at Jacobin.
Data Journalism Done Wrong
Vox says higher wages for fast-food workers will lead to mass layoffs. Here’s why they’re wrong.
Piketty’s Fair-Weather Friends
Piketty’s warnings of a capitalism without meritocracy are being challenged by an ossified economic theory.
Thanks, Libertarians. But We’ve Got This
Let’s have a debate over the Left and the state. But not on the libertarians’ distorted terms.
Tea Party Yankees
Today’s Republican extremism owes more to the Constitution that established the Union than the secessionists who sundered it. It’s Hoover’s party — and Madison’s — not Calhoun’s.
Don’t Mention the War
With a vacuous social vision, economics confronts the “return of the social question” woefully unprepared.
The Wage and Productivity Effects of Internet Trolling
Ask not for whom Yggy trolls, he trolls for thee.
The Red and the Black
Profit is the motor of capitalism. What would it be under socialism?
American Jacobins
Why has the American left neglected this revolutionary inheritance?
“A New Deal or ‘Papandreouization’”
An interview with Emmanuel Todd
Introduction: Europe Against the Left
What makes this perennial sad story worthy of another reexamination?
