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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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