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Month: November 2012

Walmart Workers: It’s All About Power

November 29, 2012Shawn Gude 12 Comments

Seth Ackerman, Matt Yglesias, and Doug Henwood had an interesting Twitter conversation earlier this week about boosting wages  at Walmart. As Ackerman and Yglesias note, higher pay has to come from somewhere and Walmart, a company whose munificence has always… Continue Reading →

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Class and Democratic Citizenship

November 28, 2012Shawn Gude 4 Comments

T.H. Marshall, in “Citizenship and Social Class”: Is it still true that basic equality, when enriched in substance and embodied in the formal rights of citizenship is consistent with the inequalities of social class? I shall suggest that our society… Continue Reading →

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No, I’m Not Tom Frank’s Doppelgänger—and Other Clarifications

November 20, 2012Shawn Gude 2 Comments

I’ve been meaning to link to, and clarify, my recent piece at Jacobin. Posted last week, the essay is on Occupy ‘s aversion to politics and it is, I’ll concede, quite critical of the movement. To be honest, I feel… Continue Reading →

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Ezra Klein and “Substance”

November 10, 2012Shawn Gude 325 Comments

Bhaskar Sunkara takes on one of his favorite targets, Ezra Klein: Klein is the archetype for modern American liberalism, so much so that he disavows being a liberal at all. He’s a centrist technocrat, obsessed over policy, ignoring politics, honestly… Continue Reading →

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The Quadrennial Conundrum

November 9, 2012Shawn Gude

My pre-election piece—posted on the front-page, but not yet here.

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Why White Papers Aren’t Enough

November 2, 2012Shawn Gude 2 Comments

In his 2006 work On Political Equality, the great Robert Dahl tells us why: “I want to suggest instead that what actually drives the search for fairness is not pure reason but emotions and passions. Reason may serve to guide… Continue Reading →

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