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for the full episode. There are these numbers that I can’t get out of my mind about how women are getting crushed in the COVID economy. Women have lost over 12 million jobs since February, more than 150,000 of them in December alone. We’ve lost jobs in the service sector, the hospitality industry. Ninety percent of civil servants who lost their jobs in December were women. On Thursday’s episode of What Next, I spoke to sociologist Jess Calarco, who’s been doing a study following hundreds of mothers since 2018, about how we got here and why it will be hard to fix—even with an infusi...

“In his new book, Hope & Scorn: Eggheads, Experts, and Elites in American Politics, historian Michael J. Brown adeptly probes questions such as these as he delves into ‘the uncertain role of intellectuals in a democracy.'” What is the rightful role of the intellectual in a democratic society? In a polity premised on human equality and committed to majority rule, what exactly are intellectuals, those peculiar elites committed to the life of the mind and the health of the body politic, to do? What ought their fellow citizens allow them to do? At what point do such elites’ ability to dr...

A pick between dark politics or collective resistance Updated: Updated: January 23, 2021 00:47 IST The democratic world has a choice — either accept the politics of violence or kindle the urge to resist the status quo Share Article AAA The democratic world has a choice — either accept the politics of violence or kindle the urge to resist the status quo “ All politics is a struggle for power; the ultimate kind of power is violence.” — C. Wright Mills Donald Trump’s drive to upend a legitimate election has shaken faith in the functioning of democracy worldwide. When a president of...

Part Two in a three-part series. Read Part One here. “What Jacob Burckhardt said of ‘great men’ most Americans might well say of their elite: ‘They are all that we are not.’” (C Wright Mills, The Power Elite ) “People who know only economics do not know much about economics.” (John Kay and Mervyn King, Radical Uncertainty ) Among environmental groups, there is an eagerness to insert green recovery plans (like the Build Back Better campaign, which rings hollow in countries with high inequality) into the phase of economic collapse post Covid-19, which in the case of Africa alrea...

Most Americans don't like Wall Street too much, but their bovine allegiance to capitalism—sold as "the American Way of Life"— remains strong With an excellent critique of Robert Reich's dated "social democratic" interpretation of modern finance capitalism and the reformist solutions no longer feasible under the present global regime.  John Bellamy Foster is best-known as author of Marx’s Ecology (2000; in which he corrects the popular misapprehension that Marx did not ‘get’ environmental limits), and as editor of Monthly Review (monthlyreview.org), the journal founded by Marxist ...