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Doug Cameron It started to unravel when conservative prime minister Robert Menzies decided to push up private home ownership by selling public housing. That was a strategy to turn working-class people into mini-capitalists. Since then,...

Michael Burawoy had three lifelong passions. The first was English football, specifically Manchester United, the team he supported from childhood and to which he remained loyal for the rest of his life. The other two...

In two recent Jacobin articles, Ben Case and Paul Prescod argued that 2024’s general election results demonstrate the great potential of ballot initiatives for enacting progressive policy in the United States. There is certainly material...

Every French person has at least one Jean-Marie Le Pen story. I have two, both of which long predate my scholarly interest in France. The first goes back to when I was around six or...

Weeks into his second presidential term, Donald Trump is moving ahead with what his former confidant Steve Bannon called “deconstructing the administrative state.” Led by Elon Musk’s advisory task force on government efficiency, this effort...

If Elon Musk and the nebulous Department of Government Efficiency have anything to say about it, the labor relations regime that has been in place for ninety years could come to an abrupt end during...

Last Friday, Elon Musk posted a succinct boast on the social media platform he owns. “CFPB RIP,” it said, along with an image of a tombstone. He was bragging that he had, at least for...

If you love junk fees, higher interest rates, fewer banking options, and all the other documented effects of bank mergers, then you (along with bank lobbyists) will likely love President Donald Trump’s new pick to run...

Don’t mourn the professional managerial class — organize it. A member of the Harvard Graduate Student Union speaks during a protest in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on February 14, 2022. (Vanessa Leroy / Bloomberg via Getty Images)...

Review of Born to Rule: The Making and Remaking of the British Elite by Aaron Reeves and Sam Friedman (Harvard University Press, 2024) It is easy to forget that the sociologist Michael Young was making...

A pitiful action-comedy that stubbornly fails to entertain, Love Hurts is a Valentine’s Day–themed disaster getting drubbed at the box office. Poor Ke Huy Quan, Best Supporting Actor Oscar winner for Everything Everywhere All at...

Andrée Blouin (1921–1986) was a central figure in the struggles for decolonization that swept Africa in the 1950s and ’60s, nicknamed “the Black Pasionaria.” Born under French colonial rule in what is now the Central...