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.
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.
The Responsible Socialism of Adolph Germer 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 because he knew first hand both how difficult it was to win and how devastating it could be for workers when they lost.
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.
Fool Me Twice The shamed retreat into themselves, but the guilty can take responsibility for their actions. A Review of Frédéric Gros’s A Philosophy of Shame.