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Erik Davis • The Weird and the Banal
When we talk about the process, then, we are talking, increasingly, not about “the democratic process”, or the general mechanism affording the citizens of a state a voice in its affairs, but the reverse: a mechanism seen as so specialized that access to it is correctly limited to its own professionals, to those who manage policy and those who repor
... See moreJoan Didion • After Henry: Essays

Determined to unshackle market forces from the heavy hand of the state and the millstone of “tax and spend,” the classes that led this bloc aimed to liberalize and globalize the capitalist economy. What that meant, in reality, was financialization: dismantling barriers to, and protections from, the free movement of capital; deregulating banking and
... See moreNancy Fraser • The Old is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born: From Progressive Neoliberalism to Trump and Beyond
In the summer of 2019, The Wall Street Journal published a series of articles that raised questions about WeWork’s a corporate governance and revealed unsavory details about Adam Neumann’s personal financial dealings, as well as his penchant for partying.
Maureen Farrell • The Cult of We: WeWork, Adam Neumann, and the Great Startup Delusion
The corporate hierarchy that has corrupted higher education is on public display at Berkeley. The wealthiest of the elite schools, such as Yale and Stanford, assign dormitories by lottery. They treat their students with a careful egalitarianism, expecting all to enter the elite. Berkeley and many other public universities, however, assign rooms dep
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