Sixty years ago today, the Indonesian army seized power and began a campaign of mass murder to annihilate the country’s left. Relatives of the victims are still fighting against a culture of amnesia about one of the century’s bloodiest massacres. Seventy-five-year-old...
Syria’s new president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, has been feted by establishment media as an ex-radical gone moderate. Yet massacres of civilians by government forces disturb the rosy picture of a return to peace. A massacre in Sweida has strained the credibility of Syria’s...
Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another deserves all the hype it’s getting. Run, don’t walk, to this thrilling, hilarious, moving, and all too prescient portrait of American radicals on the run from right-wing authoritarians. Leonardo DiCaprio in One Battle...
With Eric Adams out of the New York mayoral race and the corrupt Andrew Cuomo his main opponent, Zohran Mamdani has a chance to cast his democratic socialism, his alleged “extremism,” as tied to the creation of a lawful society. Not only is Zohran Mamdani completely...
Most Giving Pledge dollars never reached the public, flowing instead to private foundations and donor-advised funds while billionaires grew richer, bought reputations for generosity, and handed back scraps to the people who made their fortunes. Fifteen years in, rich...
Emmanuel Macron’s governments keep failing because of their unpopular austerity plans. The one move they’ve refused to consider: imposing a wealth tax on the superrich who’ve benefited most from Macron’s agenda. A longtime Emmanuel Macron ally, France's new prime...
In recent years, liberals, the Left, and the Right have all waffled on defending free speech when it doesn’t suit them. But not Jacobin. For 15 years, we have insisted that free speech is a basic democratic principle that must be defended. Free speech is a left-wing...
GOP lawmakers recently ordered social media companies to testify before the House Oversight Committee to "examine radicalization of online forum users" — while notably excluding companies led by Donald Trump's closest Big Tech allies, Meta and X. A US House hearing...
Christoph Schuringa insists that analytic philosophy serves as an ideological fig leaf for liberal capitalism. But his polemic distorts the discipline’s history and fails to draw persuasive links between its development and apologias for the status quo. English...
Analytic philosophy has become the dominant school in anglophone philosophy departments since 1945. Christoph Schuringa persuasively argues that it has served to reinforce a liberal common sense that blocks the idea of radical change. Plato and Aristotle carry on an...
With Zohran Mamdani on the cusp of victory in New York City, the Left should learn from the ups and downs of embattled Chicago mayor Brandon Johnson. Brandon Johnson speaks at a Labor Day rally in Chicago, Illinois on September 1, 2025. (Audrey Richardson / Getty...
With the help of the Federal Reserve, banks are offering loans at higher rates than the interest they pay to depositors and pocketing the difference for themselves. This so-called net interest income is a wildly lucrative scheme for banks that’s only growing more...