Vulture Capitalism by Grace Blakeley
Vulture Capitalism addresses one of the most urgent political-economic questions of our time: why do we live under a system that calls itself free while concentrating power in the hands of a few unaccountable actors? Grace Blakeley, a British economist…
Globalists by Quinn Slobodian
Globalists tackles the historical development of neoliberalism not as a rejection of state power, but as a strategic redeployment of it to protect global capitalism from democratic interference. Quinn Slobodian, a historian at Wellesley College, adopts a rigorous archival and…
The Philosopher of the Algorithm Lords: Curtis Yarvin and the Tech-Elite’s Pet Reactionary
It started, as these things often do, on a forum. I was reading a thread about why democracy was failing: some long, snarky manifesto that blended tech optimism with weird medieval nostalgia. Someone was waxing poetic about Singapore as a…
The Godfather of Hypercapitalist Rebellion: Rothbard, the Market, and the Illusion of Liberation
I first encountered Murray Rothbard the way you stumble across a bad idea dressed up as brilliance: through an overconfident college libertarian insisting that taxation was theft and democracy a scam. We were in a political theory seminar. The guy,…
How Beijing Became Algeria’s Most Important Economic Partner
In the port city of Oran, just a short walk from the Mediterranean, new apartment towers rise beside freshly paved roads. Their uniform design and the Mandarin signs on nearby shipping containers tell a story few Algerians need to be…
More Dangerous Alive: Fred Hampton and the Revolution They Tried to Bury
One day, I saw a tweet about Fred Hampton’s death on my timeline—just a quote card: his birth year, his death year, and one of those gut-punching lines that echo in your head long after you scroll past. I don’t…
Profits vs. People: How Veolia Used ISDS to Challenge Egypt’s Sovereignty
In the aftermath of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution, the country’s new government faced the daunting task of rebuilding its economy while addressing long-standing demands for economic justice. One of its first meaningful steps was raising the national minimum wage—a modest…
The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order by Gary Gerstle
Gary Gerstle’s The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order explores the emergence, dominance, and fragmentation of neoliberalism as the guiding political-economic paradigm in American life from the 1970s through the 2010s. Gerstle approaches this challenge through the framework of…
The Big Myth by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway
The Big Myth tackles the powerful ideological transformation in 20th-century America: the rise of market fundamentalism and the widespread vilification of government intervention. Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway, renowned historians of science, take a historical and interdisciplinary approach, blending political…