How Nazi Billionaires Escaped Justice at Nuremberg
Although they shared responsibility for the crimes committed by the Third Reich, many German capitalists got off easy because Washington saw them as potential allies in the Cold War with the USSR.
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The Best of Liberalism Points to Socialism
At its best, liberalism points beyond itself to an overcoming of capitalism. It also explicitly upholds certain moral ideals that it would be a mistake for socialists to renounce.
Socialism is not Liberal Moralism on Steroids
Socialists don’t need to appeal to morality and justice. Unlike liberals and conservatives, they can point out how the world works, and how our political imagination is constrained as a result.
Public Safety is a Social Good, and Simple Binaries Aren’t Helping Us Achieve It
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.
Right?
A curious filler word plagues professional-class liberal speech patterns. What does it mean?
Something is rotten in the state of Schengen
The Schengen Treaty of 1985 promised to create a Europe without borders. But free movement for Europeans came at the expense of everyone else.
Class Patricide
What does the United Healthcare CEO assassination really tell us about class in America?
