Carl Beijer

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The real problem with the TikTok ban
Socialists can criticize this without questioning the state's sovereignty over the market.
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Carl Beijer
The Gaza ceasefire vindicates protest voters
Yesterday's announcement undercuts a major argument against protest voting.
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Carl Beijer
Social media's influence has been greatly exaggerated
A look at the data, theory, and research on how social media actually influences our politics.
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Carl Beijer
Is education really a good proxy for class?
The problem with looking at degrees.
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Carl Beijer
Facebook and the end of "woke capital"
Zuckerberg's antiwoke turn presents a serious problem for the right's theory of "woke capitalism."
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Carl Beijer
On Schumer's "Gulf of America" proposal
No, Trump is obviously not going to take this deal. That's the point
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Carl Beijer

December 2024

MAGA civil war: on fascism and capital
The fight on the right gives us insight into the conflicting forces shaping their politics.
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Carl Beijer
A Christmas Miracle: Elon fails to kill this site
Since my ban, word-of-mouth has replaced Twitter as my main source of traffic.
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The US is an empire. Is it the only empire?
A new essay by John Bellamy Foster strawmans Marxist skeptics of the emerging world order.
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Carl Beijer
MAILBAG: On the moral responsibility of individual capitalists
A Marxist understanding of politics undermines liberalism's most basic intuitions about personal responsibility.
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Carl Beijer
Republican feudalists and the Democratic status machine
Neither of these factions are political parties in the ordinary sense.
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Carl Beijer
Liberalism's futile plan for "The Groups"
Will "just say no" work to curb the influence of donors? Probably not!
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Carl Beijer
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