The panel I'm most excited about is the one entitled, "The Future of Work", which features Ross Perlin, the author of Intern Nation, and Bhaskar Sunkara, the publisher of Jacobin magazine (which you should subscribe to). [read post]

All too often the labels and categories routinely invoked for both descriptive and analytical political discourse in public fora bespeak the noxious effects of intellectual lethargy, ideological calcification, and even the crassness of black-and-white thinking. [read post]