Crisis at the VU University Amsterdam: another symptom of ‘marketization’
Over the last 1.5 years, the VU University Amsterdam has been embroiled in a battle against severe budgetary cuts. The…
What’s wrong with the Keynesian answer to austerity?
As austerity measures bite while the economy continues to flatline, arguments for a Keynesian response to the recession are gaining…
After Occupy
More than one year after the last encampments were dismantled, no material trace of Occupy remains in the cities where…
What’s wrong with conspiracy theories?
In recent months I have noticed conspiracy theories popping up with increasing frequency around, and sometimes within, the left. There…
Fighting for Economic Justice and Fair Wages
Marxist economist Richard Wolff joins Bill to shine light on the disaster left behind in capitalism’s wake, and to discuss the fight…
Je universiteit als pooier
Geestdrift: Studeren te duur? Gebruik je lichaam als onderpand! De crisis en de bezuinigingen hebben de toekomst van veel studenten…
Hollywood’s Imperial Propaganda
Hollywood likes to pretend that things aren’t political when they are. It’s that bi-partisan nationalist myth that if both corporate…
Online Education: Another Phony “Revolution”
Thomas Friedman’s latest column touting online education “is another exercise in (1) finding a potential positive dimension of capital’s latest…
The planetary emergency
Capitalism today is caught in a seemingly endless crisis, with economic stagnation and upheaval circling the globe.1 But while the world…
De paradox van kerstfilms
Kerstavond bestond voor mij uit eten, rode wijn drinken en slechte kerstfilms kijken met vrienden. Voorbereid op het ergste, bleken…