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SOURCE: The Metropole
12/10/2020
The Growth Of Market-Oriented Urban Policy — A Review Of Neoliberal Cities
by Tracy Neumann
A new collection of essays seeks to develop a historical understanding and grounding for the often vague term "neoliberalism" through its transformation of urban space and politics.
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SOURCE: The Baffler
10/28/2020
Grin and Bear It: On the Rise and Rise of Neo-Stoicism
by Hettie O'Brien
"Stoic practices may allow us to live more easily in the world as it is. But politics is as much about conflict as consensus, and depends, at least in part, upon people getting angry."
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SOURCE: Aeon
10/2/2020
This Vanishing Moment and Our Vanishing Future: John Hersey, Hiroshima, and the End of World
Postwar prosperity depended on a truce between capitalist growth and democratic fairness. Is it possible to get it back?
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SOURCE: Boston Review
9/9/2020
Neoliberal Hong Kong Is Our Future, Too
by Macabe Keliher
While orthodox economists like to point to Hong Kong as an ideal free market, the social consequences have been disastrous. Inequality is rising, wages are declining and working hours increasing, overall economic opportunity is dwindling, and housing is so unaffordable that office workers sleep in McDonalds. Is it any wonder that the streets are now burning?
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7/12/2020
Will White Liberals Keep Faith With This Historical Moment?
by Elwood Watson
White liberal allies to today's Black protest movements must dig in for the long haul and remember the words of Audre Lorde: "The war against dehumanization is ceaseless."
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
7/8/2020
How Do We Change America?
by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
The quest to transform this country cannot be limited to challenging its brutal police if the roots of oppression and inequality that constitute what many activists refer to as “racial capitalism” are left in place.
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SOURCE: New York Times
5/29/2020
Of Course There Are Protests. The State Is Failing Black People.
by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
If there were ever questions about whether poor and working-class African-Americans were disposable, there can be none now. It’s clear that state violence is not solely the preserve of the police.
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SOURCE: The Correspondent
5/14/2020
The Neoliberal Era is Ending. What Comes Next?
by Rutger Bregman
From higher taxes for the wealthy to more robust government, the time has come for ideas that seemed impossible just months ago.
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SOURCE: Jacobin
5/5/2020
We’re Still Living in Margaret Thatcher’s Britain
Ewan Gibbs reviews Dominick Sandbrook's popular history of the Thatcher era
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SOURCE: N+1
3/23/2020
Coronavirus and Chronopolitics
by Gabriel Winant
What matters now is the balance of authority in everyday life—between young and old, worker and boss.
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SOURCE: Public Books
3/18/2020
College Worth Fighting For
by Ryan Boyd
Professors are in a class struggle, a real fight that cannot be won with critique alone.
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5/26/19
Yes, you should have free speech on Facebook.
by Andrew Joseph Pegoda
When blocking content or banning users, Facebook uses its ubiquitousness, power, wealth, and monopoly—made possible by neoliberal transferences of power from “real” governments to private businesses which function as unelected and unaccountable de facto governments—to silence.
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SOURCE: JStor
12-25-17
Cornel West Says Neoliberalism Has Failed Us
"As things become more hopeless, we have to fight more intensely because of issues of integrity, honesty, decency, truth, justice.”
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SOURCE: The Guardian
2-14-17
Neoliberalism: the deep story that lies beneath Donald Trump’s triumph
by George Monbiot
The events that led to Donald Trump’s election started in England in 1975.
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10-2-16
How Neoliberalism – Blind Faith in Markets -- Contributed to Brexit
by Phillip Ther
The British plebiscite against the EU confirms the fragility of the neoliberal order that emerged in the 1980s.
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SOURCE: Salon
4-16-16
Judith Stein says neoliberalism broke the American working class
How? Through bad trade policies.
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The American Roots of Neoliberalism
by Daniel Stedman Jones
Portrait of Milton Friedman. Credit: The Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice.The word “neoliberalism” -- the ideology of free markets, deregulation and limited government -- is easily lost in translation from the European to the American context. In part this is a reflection of the different meanings of liberalism in Europe and the United States. But it also highlights a gap in historical understanding, which is only just beginning to be filled.
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SOURCE: Guardian (UK)
1-14-13
George Monbiot: If You Think We're Done with Neoliberalism, Think Again
George Monbiot is the author of the bestselling books The Age of Consent: A Manifesto for a New World Order and Captive State: The Corporate Takeover of Britain, as well as the investigative travel books Poisoned Arrows, Amazon Watershed and No Man's Land. His latests books are Heat: how to stop the planet burning and Bring on the Apocalypse?How they must bleed for us. In 2012, the world's 100 richest people became $241 billion richer. They are now worth $1.9 trillion: just a little less than the entire output of the United Kingdom.This is not the result of chance. The rise in the fortunes of the super-rich is the direct result of policies. Here are a few: the reduction of tax rates and tax enforcement; governments' refusal to recoup a decent share of revenues from minerals and land; the privatisation of public assets and the creation of a toll-booth economy; wage liberalisation and the destruction of collective bargaining.
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