Responsibility

The best means to mitigate the brutality of police and prisons in the United States is to achieve universal, social democratic reforms that would help abolish the ghetto. But there are more specific criticisms of the carceral state to be made in the meantime.

Liberals and the Left tend to ignore the importance of a reliable electricity system, pushing visions of rooftop solar and 100% renewables that are out of line with the reality of our aging electrical grid. A responsible climate politics must aim to deliver what a reindustrializing society depends on: a stable grid.

At the heart of an absurd and drawn-out spectacle consuking the Worcester, MA city council is a depressing disregard for basic political responsibility.

The television screen is the retina of the mind’s eye. Therefore, the television screen is part of the physical structure of the brain. Therefore, whatever appears on the television screen emerges as raw experience for those who watch it. Therefore, television is reality, and reality is less than television.

The youth mental health crisis speaks to the abnegation of responsibility among adults—liberals and leftists foremost. Unmediated expressions of distress in spectacle-oriented activities must be rejected for a mature, radical politics.

It's no secret that journalism is in tatters, undermined at the bottom by the decline of local news reporting and at the top by elite hobnobbing and foundation dollars. In the relative isolation that this situation brings, journalists today have a responsibility to ignore the trappings of partisan praise and attack the powers that be.

On MANGO's, Coconuts, and the Responsibility of a Powerless Left.

The crises of the twenty-first century demand conscious public control. But this power is conspicuously absent, on both right and left.

The shamed retreat into themselves, but the guilty can take responsibility for their actions.

Adolph Germer was a mineworker, socialist, and lifelong labor organizer who believed that organizing strategy must be both ambitious and practical. He adopted this orientation not out of an inherent conservatism but because he knew first hand both how difficult it was to win and how devastating it could be for workers when they lost.