This week's Philosophy for the People essay is up:

Between traveling and taking care of my invalid dog, I haven't been able to teach my Capital class in LA for several weeks, but a few of the students drove down hang out in Rosarito & hence scored some homemade guacamole and free copies of "Confessions of a 'Class Reductionist'":

Were you similarly surprised when tiny Bosnia dominated the news in the 90s?

This week's Philosophy for the People essay is up--several hours later than usual, but better late than never!

The only two groups of people who say "the Jews" when they mean Israel are hardcore Zionists and hardcore antisemites--two camps that share 99.9% of the same way of looking at the world but just disagree about which entire ethnic groups are Good or Bad.

My latest for @jacobinmag.bsky.social covers as much as I could fit into one article of what Ted Cruz is confused about with regards to socialism, Marxism, and related subjects:

I'm in UnHerd today, responding to Bret Stephens's NYT article making the case for regime change in Venezuela. Every time the Stephenses of the world get excited by the scent of blood, they tell us *this* war will be different from the last one. And the one before that. And the one before that...

This week's Philosophy for the People essay takes a look at Eric Levitz's recent exchange with Bhaskar Sunkara on the model of socialism Bhaskar, Mike Beggs, and I propose in our new book:

My latest for @jacobinmag.bsky.social:

Honestly, I'm a bit ambivalent about the headline they put on this. I think there's a pretty clear sense in which "the Democrats" don't deserve a thing. But I do think the *country* deserves an opposition party that's not led by Chuck f---ing Schumer. My latest for @unherd.com:

Going up a few hours late (mostly couldn't get a seat, much less WiFi, on various trains in between London and Abergavenny today), but this week's Philosophy for the People essay is up!

I'm in @jacobinmag.bsky.social today with a look at the ways in which Zohran is uniquely Bernie's heir--both in that he's a *product* of the post-Bernie left in a way none of the other nationally prominent "Berniecrats" were and in his adoption of Bernie's left-populist communication playbook.

Heading to Historical Materialism to present on G.A Cohen

Coming up in eight days at Bar Freda in Queens!

My latest for @jacobinmag.bsky.social:

I suspect the actual release date is going to be a few months later than the one they've got on here right now, but still pretty cool--there's a pre-order page up for The Blueprint:

Realized I never said "unquote" after reciting a famous poem in 10th grade. Sorry if you thought everything I've said since is Shakespeare

Coming up in exactly two weeks!

Going live in about 10 minutes:

The "No Kings" protests were great. But the other half of the message needs to be "No Oligarchs." My latest for @unherd.com:

No Kings, No Oligarchs. Start there.

Election Night live show/celebration in Queens! Tickets: www.barfreda.com#/events/156966

Going live at 11:30 AM East Coast/8:30 West Coast to talk a little labor theory of value and exploitation:

Going live in about half an hour (at 11:30 AM East Coast/8:30 AM West Coast) to take a look at an interesting impromptu mini-debate on a recent episode of Breaking Points:

In a little over half an hour (at 11:30 AM East Coast/8:30 AM West Coast), I'm going to go live for a little breakdown of Curtis Yarvin's very odd essay "You Can't Handle the Truth."

This week's Philosophy for the People essay:

I'm in @msnbc.com today, writing about the particular chickens currently coming home to roost:

My latest for @jacobinmag.bsky.social:

Going live in a little over 10 minutes (at 11:30 AM EST/8:30 PST):

Going live in a few minutes (at 11:30 AM East Coast/8:30 AM West Coast)!

This week's Philosophy for the People essay:

Going live in about 10 minutes (11:30 AM East Coast/8:30 West Coast):

"There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come."

A few more pictures from the Partido de Trabjo conference + the written version of my intro for @profwolff.bsky.social. The 2nd pic is the most meaningful to me--I got to meet one of my heroes (Ofer Cassif, who was almost expelled from the Knesset for speaking out against the genocide).

A bit of the opening of the conference yesterday. The beginnings of DSA meetings are never as good as this!

So, this was pretty cool: Yesterday I got to introduce @profwolff.bsky.social at a conference of socialist, communist and labor parties from all around Latin America (and several outside of it) hosted in Mexico City by the Partido del Trabajo:

My latest for @jacobinmag.bsky.social covers Kamala Harris coming out of whatever hole she crawled into after catastrophically fumbling the 2024 election & babbling some gibberish about Donald Trump being a "communist" (+ how that gibberish manages to precisely reverse the message that could work).

Excited to be attending Historical Materialism this fall in London. Will be discussing G.A Cohen and liberal socialism, while previewing our forthcoming collection on analytical Marxism with @benburgis.bsky.social link.springer.com/book/9783032...

Logging some Rosarito Beach time.

My co-written article w/@drkuba.bsky.social on how bad a second Trump term might get came out exactly a year ago today. Sadly, I think we nailed it.

Meagan Day and I are back in Jacobin magazine today with a followup, now that (as we predicted in the first article) the Right is using Kirk's murder as a pretext for crackdowns on free speech:

I forgot to post this picture from the weekend.

My piece on American democratic socialism for @unherd.com unherd.com/2025/09/soci...

Had a lot of fun chatting w/ @atldemsoc.bsky.social yesterday about Marxism, even if it did make me feel very old to hear a couple of these comrades in their 20s say they'd been watching me on TMBS "in high school." They had a Zoom link, so we should have the recording soon for GTAA:

@benburgis.bsky.social with @atldemsoc.bsky.social

Tonight at 6 PM at 711 Catherine St. in Atlanta, I'm speaking to @atldemsoc.bsky.social on "How Marxism Can Help Us Understand the World Around Us." If you apply stern pressure, you might be able to twist my arm (and perhaps even twist @mattpolprof.bsky.social's arm) into getting a beer after:

Come get a beer with @atldemsoc.bsky.social and @benburgis.bsky.social today.

Tomorrow (Monday the 15th), I'm doing a talk for @atldemsoc on "How Marxism Can Help Us Understand the World Around Us" at 6 PM at 711 Catherine St SW in Atlanta.

Good job @benburgis.bsky.social for @jacobinmag.bsky.social. Speaking a lot of moral and strategic sense jacobin.com/2025/09/char...