In our Time: The Theory of the Leisure Class
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the most influential work of Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929). In 1899, during America’s Gilded Age, Veblen wrote The Theory of the Leisure Class as a reminder…
We Found The Radical Solution To Skyrocketing Grocery Prices
Zohran's plan for city-run grocery stores has drawn intense pushback from critics. But government-run stores already exist in the U.S. One chain with 250 locations charges at least 25% less…
Vimeo lays off most of its staff just months after being bought by private equity firm
Vimeo just got hit by a brutal round of layoffs, according to a report by Business Insider. Staffers are posting on various social media sites that the layoffs have impacted…
The US “cannot stomach the possibility of a liberated Palestine, because a liberated Palestine removes their key proxy in the region.”
political economist Dr Jason Hickel in conversation with Aaron Bastani.
tech won’t save us: How China’s Renewable Push Upends Geopolitics
Paris Marx is joined by Kate Mackenzie and Tim Sahay to discuss the geopolitics behind China’s investments in green tech and electrification, and how it presents the prospect of a…
The reason the West is warmongering against China
China’s spectacular economic development has brought up the price of its labour and dwindled Western corporate profits.
Attention as a commodity
social media through a Marxist lens
the real reason Zohran won NYC
from economic hardship reporting project
Capitalism and Propoganda
Scott Bennett
Grocery store “mistake” scams
and how unions are fighting to stop them