Retired UIC professor and author Bill Ayers says modern revolutionaries also don’t have to look to the 1960s for inspiration.
Tag: Occupy Wall Street
Mani Mostofi of Racetraitor on how Trump’s embrace of white nationalism helped bring the band back
Twenty years ago, Racetraitor copped to their own privileges to try to educate the hardcore scene about class, gender, and race—so now is a perfect time for them to reunite.
Homer Simpson, Don Draper, and other sociopaths
Adam Kotsko discusses Why We Love Sociopaths: A Guide to Late Capitalist Television, his book on contemporary television
I’ll tune in when I’m done zoning out
When it comes to politics, I’m virtually as active as the next person
Dicking around on Wall Street
Dismantling Gabriel Sherman’s “The Emasculation of Wall Street”
Season 2 A.D. approaches for Sox
It should be easy getting good Sox seats this year, even in the dugout
On bright ideas and a crooked judge
The inspired fiscal thinking of Ian Ayres, Thomas Maloney, and Kenneth Dodge
Best of 2011, number 10: Margin Call
J.R. Jones on Margin Call, his number 10 movie of 2011.
Gingrich: This is what democracy smells like
Is that odor the OWS protesters, or something else?
Obama’s reelection chances
To win a second term, Obama needs the economy to be improving, especially if he has to face Mitt Romney, says statistician Nate Silver.
Money and politics: till death do they part
The Occupy movements want money to be divorced from politics, but the two are happily married.
“Not all rich people are jerks”
The Tumblr site We are the 1 percent: We stand with the 99 percent shows that not all rich people are jerks.