Donald Trump’s Big Oil bonanza is an environmental disaster — but the industry’s reaction exposes a larger truth about capitalism itself.
Brad Swanson | Mar 26
Writing "The Red Riviera" taught me that even flawed socialist systems offered insights into equality, solidarity, and the dignity of everyday life.
Kristen Ghodsee, Duke University Press | Nov 6, 2025
In a capitalist world, the often-overlooked systems of technical standards offer a rare example of economic collaboration that prioritizes the public good over profit.
Jeffrey Pomerantz & Jason Griffey | Mar 24, 2025
“The race of undesirables is simply the race of exploited people.”
Claire Fontaine | Mar 20, 2025
Art critic and publisher Isabelle Graw reflects on the tension between art as a commodity and its enduring physical and symbolic value within capitalist systems.
Isabelle Graw | Dec 13, 2024
E.F. Schumacher's classic 1968 essay shifted focus from capitalism to individual well-being, prioritizing holistic welfare over financial exchange systems.
Ernst Fritz Schumacher | Apr 30, 2024
"It would be a euphemism to say this book is not anthropocentric — it places humanity on another orbit."
Bruno Latour | Nov 9, 2023
The Czech writer’s darkly humorous novel, published in 1936, anticipated our current reality with eerie accuracy.
John Rieder | Jan 30, 2023
From homegrown furniture to fermented textiles to circular models of local material production.
Matthew Wizinsky | Oct 14, 2022
“What can’t go on won’t go on. Capitalism is breaking the system, meaning people’s lives and the biosphere.”
James Bradley | Oct 11, 2022
