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A Modest Proposal: Job Creation through Incarceration
by Nemo For the past few days, thousands of Georgia prisoners have been striking against their poor working conditions. The strikers—by demanding actual wages and fair working conditions—risk...
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Class Warfare from the Top
By Wiz From the New York Times: Faced with growing budget deficits and restive taxpayers, elected officials from Maine to Alabama, Ohio to Arizona, are pushing new legislation to limit the power of...
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The GESO Report on the Corporate University
By Wiz Congrats to the our brothers and sisters at GESO, the Yale graduate student union, who have put together an eye-opening new report on the corporatization of their university. It pinpoints a...
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Thoughts on Egypt
by Weiner One can’t help but feel energized by recent events in Egypt. Though I’ve studied the Middle East a bit in my day, I’m by no means an expert and am wary of making any forecasts or even...
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Another Republican In Wisconsin Talks about Labor
By Wiz 152 Years ago, Abraham Lincoln spoke on his theory of labor at an agricultural fair in Wisconsin: …Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital; that, in fact, capital is the fruit of labor,...
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Solidarity versus Sympathy
by Weiner Some people, like economist Paul Krugman, or historian Judith Leavitt, think the labor struggles in Wisconsin are of major historical significance, possibly akin to the uprisings in Egypt....
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The Huffington Post Strike, Matthew Yglesias, and the Decline of the...
By Wiz Why am I not at all surprised to see blogger wunderkind—and member of the progressive establishment blogosphere in good standing—Matthew Yglesias advocate that people scab and cross a picket...
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Labour Blues
by apini Yesterday’s FT featured a book review by the Conservative operative Danny Kruger. The book reviewed was The Labour Tradition and the Politics of Paradox, a book that lays out the intellectual...
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Romney, Bain, Letters, and Archives
by David Mitt in the middle, celebrating his first love, money, along with the boys of Bain capital People in both parties are attacking GOP frontrunner Mitt Romney for his time at Bain Capital, a...
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The Civil Rights Struggle of Our Time: Lessons from Chicago
The Chicago Teachers’ Strike by Afrah The teachers’ strike in Chicago in in its fifth day at the time of this posting. The coverage has divided into roughly two parallel narratives. One decries the...
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