Party Animus
The individual is a fiction: Why the left must return to party politics.
Political theorist Jodi Dean explains why today's left, mired in self-denial and end-stage identity politics, can use post-Occupy discontent around economic inequality to construct a revolutionary party, one that mobilizes individuals to form a collective with the goal of building a new (Communist!) society over the ruins of capitalism.
Jodi is author of Crowds and Party from Verso Books.
How Prohibition set the blueprint for modern forms of state power.
Historian Lisa McGirr traces current day drug-war and mass-incarceration policies back to Prohibition-era expansion of federal power, where concerns over immigration, poverty and morality forged a bi-partisan coalition willing to embrace a muscular, interventionist government that sustained itself long after the appeal of the Eighteenth Amendment.
Lisa is author of The War on Alcohol Prohibition and the Rise of the American State.
