Link to an article by Amanda Mull:
“Instagram Food Is a Sad, Sparkly Lie”
Bonus links: The Theory of the Leisure Class, “Twenty-First Century Victorians” and “McMansion, USA”
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Thorstein Veblen – Bolshevism Is a Menace—To Whom?
Link to an article by Thorstein Veblen:
“Bolshevism Is a Menace—To Whom?” from The Dial, Vol. 66, p. 174 (Feb. 22, 1919)
Peter LaVenia – The State and Permanent Revolution
Link to an article by Peter LaVenia:
“The State and Permanent Revolution”
Bonus links: The State and Revolution and Results and Prospects and “Lenin’s ‘State and Revolution'”
Nyle Fort – Meet Larry Krasner, Philly’s New Progressive DA Who Has Sued the City’s Police Dept. 75 Times
Link to an interview with Larry Krasner, conducted by Nyle Fort:
“Meet Larry Krasner, Philly’s New Progressive DA Who Has Sued the City’s Police Dept. 75 Times”
Bonus links: “The Problem with Sullivan & Cromwell Partner Nicolas Bourtin and His Five Myths About White Collar Crime” and The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison
Russian Revolution at 100
Link to a series of articles from teleSUR about the October Revolution:
Kevin Murphy – From Compromise to Power
Link to an article by Kevin Murphy:
Paradise Papers: Secrets of the Global Elite
Link to a report by The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists:
“Paradise Papers: Secrets of the Global Elite”
Bonus links: “Joe Ricketts Is a Walking Case for a $1 Million Maximum Income” (“A maximum income—and progressive taxation more generally—is less about redistributing income than about redistributing power, though the two aims go hand-in-hand.”; this article does make numerous contradictory statements, though, first stating by way of a quote the principles of Modern Monetary Theory, then immediately contradicting them with reference to “starving public coffers of funds”; an important distinction here is between state and local jurisdictions that cannot issue currency, and a sovereign federal government that can) and “How the Rich Stay Rich” (this interview makes a misleading reference to a book that actually also admits that revolutions can cause equalization of wealth, but the interviewee seems to follow a similar defeatist line of thinking rebutted in War and Revolution: Rethinking the 20th Century, for example)
Slavoj Žižek – Lenin Knew That Revolution Wouldn’t Happen Overnight
Erwin Chemerinsky – The Myth of “Plain Meaning”
Link to an article by Erwin Chemerinsky:
What Chemerinsky does here is apply principles of “legal realism” to critique the “textualism” school of thought as merely concealing the expression of class interests.
Bonus link: Language and Symbolic Power