Best in Show #1

We’ve been flooding the internet with work of an uneven quality. You may have missed some of it. Here’s some highlights from August, supplemented by an objective rating system (100-point scale).

So precocious . . .

What You Should Read (43)

“Left”-Neoliberalism:

A bold strategy for the year 1999 (11)
Redistribution Under Neoliberalism (13)

Intellectual Property:

Artificial Scarcity Watch: Barack Obama vs. Innovation (16)

London Burning:

The Prince and the Pauper (12)
Looting And The Right to Luxury (24)
Britain’s Deadliest Gang (17)

Crypto-Totalitarian:

Jodi Dean’s Lost Horizon (100)

Economic Discontent:

Engels on Gentrification (99)
The Return of the Politics of Debt (7)
The College Wage Premium And The Super-Rich (2)

More:

The Decay of the Capitalist Class (4)
A Movement Grows in Brooklyn (29)
Working Time and Feminism (40)

Contributors

Bhaskar Sunkara is the founding editor of Jacobin, the president of the Nation magazine, and the author of The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality.