Sitemap - 2015 - Carl Beijer

Return of Kings gets it wrong: The Star Wars anti-MRA agenda earned it tons of cash

Is it a mistake to focus on economic concerns?

First impressions of Dinesh D’Souza’s "I served hard time" memoir

Class-only leftists do not exist

Coherent intersectionality is quantified

Pro-choice and market-choice positions on abortion

How should we fix the CEO gender pay gap?

Schlichter takes exactly the wrong lesson from modern American insurgencies

The racial apologetics of Marco Rubio’s faith

Trump lets liberals remain confused about fascism, for now

A socialist case for Hillary

What would an anti-Trump look like?

Identitarian deference is an enemy of civilization

How should left criticism talk about mental illness?

Who opposes the election of women in the United States?

What the hell is "poverty appropriation"?

Hillary Clinton is the last gasp of the boomers

David Brooks and the nouveau riche

Give the children a say in our national debt

A word of friendly advice for Hillary’s media surrogates

No, Michael Booth, language is not keeping people out of the Nordics

Does Clinton think that "black lives matter" is up for debate?

O’Malley is a more progressive candidate than Clinton

Why does liberal feminism hate Photoshop?

The racist heart of PUMA politics

Climate centrism is just another form of denial

A political etymology of the Bernie slurs

The ruling class does not know much about Marxism and it wouldn’t matter if they did

Bernie’s theory of change

Your periodic reminder that "the economy" still tells us little about individuals

Sanders critics and the denial of structural racism

Let’s deter the rich from having kids

Capitalist running-dog Matt Bruenig promotes "moderate" UBI scam

Pure ideology: Tyler Cowen explains inequality

No, our economic theories are not symmetrical

Contraception is a terrible solution for poverty

You usually can’t do several things at the same time

Is The Federalist running a Koch-funded smear of the Pope?

Found poetry: Today’s Twitchy, without the tweets

How can the left be the change it wants to see?

Our Truth-Claiming Pope is No Liberal

The right somehow got even dumber about Ahmed’s clock

Capitalism means that Republicans can’t call Trump on his craziest line

Bernie’s concern trolls have run out of quotes

Contrarians for Trump

How should we talk about taxes?

You can actually ask black voters what they think about Sanders

No, we are not morally obligated to kill predators

When you have not actually seen through the matrix

Leftist electoral cynicism is pretty dogmatic

Corporate power is bigger than the 14th Amendment

What do Liberals and Neoconfederates have in common?

All movements can be co-opted – even #BlackLivesMatter

Trump is the neo-fascist Žižek’s been warning us about

Hot take: actually, socialist censorship would be good

The Kochs may very well be sociopaths

When worker grit falls, the stock market will follow

Liberals don’t care about economic oppression

Climate change is more important than absolutely everything else

Geier has not made a strong argument against the Pope

You people are totally exaggerating the role that economics plays in racism

A telling problem with scolding Sanders about economic determinism

How have Clinton, Sanders and his white media critics responded to protests?

What class-first politics would actually look like

A few points on the prehistory of inequality

Is universal leisure possible?

EXPLAINER: Obamacare’s King vs. Burwell victory (wonkish)

The crank psychology of right-wing hashtag games

Barack Obama does not think we can stop climate change

Yet another thing Thomas Friedman doesn’t understand: pro wrestling

Some thoughts about Confederate iconography (here comes Lacan)

A brief anecdote about how dumb The Federalist’s Sean Davis is

A certain kind of response to Laudato Si

The Federalist’s propaganda article is conspiracy theory dressed up in terrible scholarship

Base and superstructure

A kind word for Foucault

Stop calling Emma Stone’s character "Asian" you bourgeois dorks

This is what climate change will look like

Professor Vox is not actually afraid of his liberal students

Who do we thank for surveillance reform?

You can’t fight climate change without massive foreign aid

Yes, right privacy activism is actually rooted in racism

Addendum on Greenwald’s gross Hastert defense

Glenn Greenwald burns down the government to save Dennis Hastert

Kevin D. Williamson leads to fascism

Singer and the tragedy of charity

Marxism as a speech community

The anticipation fallacy

Chuck Johnson’s radical attack on Capitalism

Twitter will capitulate again and reinstate Chuck Johnson’s account

Should workers own the means of production – or control it?

O’Reilly is exposing the impotence of liberalism

The racism of bad faith

There is no reason to believe that Hillary has moved to the left

A wrongheaded reaction to internet racism

Bernie Sanders is not running for president

The left should make executive action an election issue

Abusing the same-sex marriage #brand

Some miserable thoughts on Baltimore

Marxism and modern technology

What is at stake in arguing about Cornel West?

What have we learned about ideology?

Capitalism is just a pretext, pt. II (Updated)

Little wins, Jonah Goldberg edition

SHOCKER: Anarchy Dad has dumb ideas about the sixties

The psychology of the flat-tax

We might always be this stupid

Libertarians can’t think dialectically, EG are dumb

Sigma Alpha Epsilon’s PR denial, and the sociology of dissociation

"Right to work" isn’t a frame – it’s a brand

The Soviets and Reagan’s PATCO strike

U MAD BRO? Five times Chait got IRATE with Marxists

Deep thoughts on second-order effects

Re: Dear Student: No, I Won’t Change the Grade You Deserve

No, you should probably tip