| 单词 | capitalism |
| 例句 | The capitalism that bloomed in the cities and small towns of North Korea weakened the government’s iron grip on everyday life and did little to enrich the state. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z It was my first sight of South African capitalism at work, and I knew I was in for a new kind of education. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The illicit payoffs were as yet unknown to the public, and as the barons moved toward the front of the Million Dollar Elm, they were treated as princes of capitalism, the crowd parting before them. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “Free-market industry and capitalism at their best. It’s like watching a really good documentary about business. Far-out.” Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z If they hear or even suspect people discussing politics—-especially capitalism—the entire family will be gone by morning. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Shin did not yet know this, but grassroots capitalism, vagabond trading, and rampant corruption were creating cracks in the police state that surrounded Camp 14. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The Threepenny Opera wasn’t intended just as escapist fun in hard times, but also as a piece of biting Marxist satire critiquing the corruption of capitalism. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z “Sixty people died building the Twin Towers, architectural marvels that would forever symbolically represent the strength of America and its principles of democracy and capitalism.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z Like many of his countrymen, the Soviet leader believed that communism had set his country on a path toward social justice and modernization; its triumph over capitalism was all but inevitable. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z If patent rights, capitalism, and certain religions do promote technology, what selected for those factors in postmedieval Europe but not in contemporary China or India? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I expected Raizel to make a quip about capitalism, but instead, she said, “Alter, are you familiar with Jack the Ripper?” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z I intend to draw Miss Trixie out rather shortly; 1 suspect that this Medusa of capitalism has many valuable insights and more than one pithy observation to offer. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z You considered the only unseen forces to be those of capitalism and the love of Jesus Christ. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Unfusing a participle can make a sentence clumsy or pretentious: Any alleged evils of capitalism are simply the result of people’s being free to choose. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z He read other people’s ideas, not only those of Malthus, but also of Adam Smith, who had written in the previous century about free-market economics and capitalism. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He and a few others like him were the last links that now existed with the vanished world of capitalism. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z He did have an ideological alternative to free- market capitalism—political Islam. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z The centuries of capitalism were held to have produced nothing of any value. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z In the Soviet Union these include capitalism, God, and the surrender of national sovereignty; in the United States, socialism, atheism, and the surrender of national sovereignty. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Insurgent capitalism frightened the government of North Korea, which fretted publicly about a slippery slope to regime change and catastrophe. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The great forward gallop of industrial capitalism has brought new tasks for the rhetorician’s tool kit, too. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z They were, many believed, an extension of the Communist activities that sought to upend American democracy and disrupt capitalism as they knew it. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z He said economic change could solve food shortages, and he dispatched officials to study Chinese-style capitalism. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z In it, I attempted to trace the evolution of economic man from the earliest times up to the present, sketching out the path from ancient communal societies to feudalism to capitalism and socialism. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In June 1956, in the monthly journal Liberation, I pointed out that the charter endorsed private enterprise and would allow capitalism to flourish among Africans for the first time. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z To stamp that on a child at birth is capitalism at its best.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Raizel believed that society as a whole was corrupt, and that true freedom and liberty would only be achieved once the power structure was dismantled completely and capitalism abolished. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z But I referred them to an article I wrote in 1956 for Liberation in which I said that the Freedom Charter was not a blueprint for socialism but for African-style capitalism. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Mom says it represented capitalism. American wealth. Opportunities.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z So, while we were dancing on the Wall, savoring our Apples, opening up our Windows, and proclaiming that there was no ideological alternative to free-market capitalism, bin Laden was turning his gunsights on America. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z Europe’s fragmentation did, and China’s unity didn’t, foster the advance of technology, science, and capitalism by fostering competition between states and providing innovators with alternative sources of support and havens from persecution. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It was like we were being welcomed into the country by capitalism and obesity. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z To these people, capitalism had failed, and ordinary Americans were bearing the brunt of its collapse. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Throughout Europe, industrial capitalism, coupled with military force on a frightening scale, loomed ominously. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z That, I was to learn later, was called capitalism. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z It was an overview of the growth of capitalism as well as socialism. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He leaned toward them and said, “In object-oriented programming, discrete software objects interfaced more freely, in a system of corporate service provision that mirrored the emergent structures of late capitalism.” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yes. That’s the spirit. Exactly. A Maoist embrace of capitalism was essential for the party to keep control.” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z In this church you meet capitalism undressed and undiluted. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z It started to become clear to Wes: the drug game was raw capitalism on overdrive with bullets, a pyramid scheme whose base was dead bodies and ruined lives. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z For intellectuals, journalists, and millions of workers, a future without capitalism seemed real and attainable. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z He confessed that he was a religious believer, an admirer of capitalism, and a sexual pervert. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z She was born into capitalism; it is in her body. Review: Koosil-ja Embraces Revolution in ‘I Am Capitalism’ 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z The new capitalism permits power to detach itself from authority, the elite living in global detachment from responsibilities to others on the ground, especially during times of economic crisis. All together now: Montaigne and the art of co-operation 2012-02-10T22:55:14Z The Puerto Rican writer Giannina Braschi, the panel’s first speaker, offered a critique of 21st century capitalism in which she condemned “corporate censorship” and control. ArtsBeat: Rushdie Brings PEN Festival to Close 2012-05-07T14:23:30Z “My religion is capitalism,” one of them explains, “and the free market my creed.” Review | Jo Nesbo puts a Nordic chill on ‘Macbeth’ 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z He talked about the novel as the epic poem's descendant and a burgeoning form, a new literary form that accompanied the development of the citizen society and the conflicts of capitalism. Li Er: the future of the novel in China 2013-03-15T15:49:26Z This “Mother Courage” feels like pedagogy encased in a bubble, isolated from, say, an overseas war — not to mention the political warmongering and consumptive capitalism in our own country. ‘Mother Courage’ Review: Selling Her Wares Amid the Havoc of War 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z In subsequent books, Mr. Genovese praised intellectual life in the antebellum South, particularly its tradition of cooperative conservatism, which he saw as kinder than capitalism in the North. Eugene D. Genovese, Historian of South, Dies at 82 2012-09-30T00:04:16Z Recalling his early years in what Hoskyns dubbed the "capitalism a go-go" music scene at the dawn of the rock 'n' roll era, Fowley described thriving at the epicenter of the ultimate seller's market. Kim Fowley rocked industry as a salesman of sounds 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z “It speaks to a lifestyle of commodity, consumerism and capitalism, of transactions being canceled,” he said. Everyone Is Canceled 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z But I will now show you how the state of Comedy in the Fringe today reflects the cultural bankruptcy of late capitalism. Stewart Lee: the slow death of the Edinburgh Fringe 2012-07-30T19:00:00Z Free market industrial capitalism, then and now, invariably draws on the aid of the state. Why Etan Patz still haunts us 2012-05-25T18:00:00Z Each outlines a "new" capitalism with its sharper teeth blunted, avarice expunged, fairness and social justice imprinted on its soul and innovation and entrepreneurship providing the rocket fuel. Progressive Capitalism by David Sainsbury; The Locust and the Bee by Geoff Mulgan – review 2013-05-04T14:00:04Z “Race, gender, power and capitalism are the big tickets that I am wrestling with as a white dude working in a parochial business,” Gordon said. Fox’s ‘Accused’ Is a Law Show, Not in the Usual Order 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z Unless you marry capitalism to a social compact that has meaning, all it is is a tool for generation of wealth but not for building a functioning society. David Simon: 'I don't want anybody in jail for using drugs' 2013-05-11T17:00:10Z In its fullness, “Imagine” calls for the end of property, the end of borders between countries, the end of organized religion, the end of capitalism. Perspective | Imagine there’s no ‘Imagine’ 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z Having been "a real leftist, working for Greenpeace and all that" he consequently developed something of a taste for edgy capitalism. Shane Smith: 'I want to build the next CNN with Vice – it's within my grasp' 2013-03-23T22:24:20Z If the industry is the business of publishing and the increasingly corporate university world of the MFA, the tribe symbolizes the human community that existed before capitalism and hopefully will exist after it. A writer's solitude vs. AWP: Viet Thanh Nguyen on what we share with others 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z In these writings, the running dogs of capitalism are walked on long intellectual leashes. Viet Thanh Nguyen Packs Plenty of Action and Outrage Into ‘The Committed’ 2021-02-22T05:00:00Z And propelling themes — in Ms. Coe’s case, racism, war, capitalism and violence against all animals, including humans — are never in doubt. The Art of Staying Cool: 10 Can’t-Miss Summer Shows in New York 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z "The whole skiffle craze was really to counter the attractions of rock'n'roll, which was, of course, the folk music of capitalism." John Cooper Clarke; Assignment: radio review 2013-05-03T06:00:22Z Where capitalism flourishes, can the Protestant ethic be far behind? Review | Three hundred years later, does ‘Robinson Crusoe’ hold up as a classic? 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z Among the revelations coming to be more widely understood, Mishra claims, is an awareness that capitalism and imperialism necessarily depend on and imply each other. Pankaj Mishra Challenges America’s Self-Deceptions 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z Yet, as he watches the Twin Towers falling on television, Khan is unable to suppress his first instinct - admiration at the bombers' audacity to strike at the heart of western capitalism. Fundamentalist movie sees 9/11 from the 'other side' 2012-08-31T11:36:22Z “This is almost identical to the proportion of left-of-center individuals who respond favorably to capitalism.” Bernie Sanders and the mainstreaming of socialism: “The romance of big capitalism is stripped down” 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z Stone, a long-time critic of unbridled capitalism whose father was a stockbroker, told reporters that while the film was timely, bubbles in the financial cycle are here to stay. "Money Never Sleeps" faces hard time on Wall Street 2010-09-22T12:33:00Z At the time, the ready availability of jobs and a relatively well-funded welfare state suggested capitalism was actually doing just dandy. Ken Loach: ‘If you’re not angry, what kind of person are you?’ 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z The real villain here is capitalism: a stupid form of capitalism that seems dead set on destroying itself. 'Rise of the Robots' and the threat of a jobless future 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z Through a strange, post-disaster land rush, Gaul explains, speculators and repeat developers busily rebuild “the riskiest and costliest houses” as part of what he calls “disaster capitalism.” The Homes in Dorian’s Path Are in a High-Risk Area. Why Do They Cost So Much? 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z This is Rowland’s model: a spare aesthetic focused on everyday items, accompanied by research into their roots in racial capitalism and sometimes, interventions into the system that upholds whiteness. 3 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z Behold the trap of selling out, the selfishness that fuels capitalism. "The Boys" versus The Big Sellout 2022-06-05T04:00:00Z But the core, accelerationist concept remains: a ploy to surpass capitalism by making more of it. An Artist’s High-Tech Dream of a World With No Nations 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z For a novel about the ruthlessness of capitalism, Ramos demonstrates remarkable tenderness for her characters. Can Surrogacy Remake the World? 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z Nice as winning capitalism is, though, it’s also somewhat unsettling. Freelancers are totally screwed: What today’s cultural treadmill means for writers 2014-02-04T17:44:00Z Want to meet at the food court for curly fries at the nerve center of American capitalism? Where Masters and Mistresses of the Universe Can Have It All 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z The constraints that we faced with 20th century capitalism no longer exist. Expanded trust made the sharing economy: “It creates the possibility of getting into a stranger’s car” 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z Ever since 1962, when “Silence in the Snowy Fields” established him as a poet of desperate sincerity, he has been a paragon of Jungianism against the brutality of capitalism and militancy. He’s a Legend of Contemporary Poetry. There’s Finally a Volume of His Collected Work. 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z But as the tweet went viral, Ms. Zucker was wary of people interpreting it as an endorsement of capitalism. Yes, You Do Deserve a Little Treat 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z You might say that imagery stands, subliminally, for the unending options that American capitalism had started to offer consumers. J.C. Leyendecker: The ‘Arrow Collar Man’ Who Hid a Radical Idea 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z The whole thing is a metaphor about the seeming futility of fighting industrial capitalism and impending environmental doom, but it is also: a hilarious romp! A Queer Punk Vaudevillian’s Surreal Take on ‘Titanic’ 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z Cohen finds dignity and worth in those crumbs, giving them the monumentality that the Darwinian culture of late capitalism increasingly takes away. Forget story, plot and character. Filmmaker Jem Cohen’s ‘Counting’ is an experimental marvel. 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z The Stock Wizard is a figure from the fairy-tale version of American capitalism: someone who has magically harnessed the powers of finance to reap wealth from trading. A Radical Poet in the Age of Google and Guantánamo 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z I’m not sure about all this fetishizing by Two Trees of a sugar company linked to slave labor, monopoly capitalism and bad teeth. 3 Lush Parks Drastically Remake the East River Waterfront 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z In “The Wages of Humanity,” visitors from space demand the redistribution of Earth’s wealth, and explain that runaway capitalism almost destroyed their civilization. Liu Cixin Is China’s Answer to Arthur C. Clarke 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z Before Christmas, he directed Martin Crimp's dizzyingly experimental In the Republic of Happiness; a few weeks back he opened Bruce Norris's boisterous, period-drama assault on capitalism, The Low Road. Narrative – review 2013-04-11T13:10:00Z It’s a stunning commentary on racism, sexual violence, capitalism and the resilience required to rebuild a life. 15 books to read this fall 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z Ypi’s memoir about growing up during Albania’s transition from totalitarian communism to liberal capitalism is the story of a childhood cleaved, sometimes violently, into before and after. What It’s Like to Live Through a Rupture in History 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z He condemned capitalism but decorated corporate walls and presidential libraries. ‘Thomas Hart Benton,’ by Justin Wolff 2012-06-29T22:17:16Z Ease, comfort, and pleasure are what millennials, those members of the high-anxiety “Doom Generation,” really want — and capitalism is into it. How to Make a Millennial Feel Cozy in Just One Beverage 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z The swindler is a gargoyle onto whom the series projects all of the horror and panic attendant to American capitalism. “Valley of the Boom,” Reviewed: A Rah-Rah Reënactment of the Dot-Com Cataclysm 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z So is “Mission Drift,” a brash look at American capitalism, set to some great rock ’n’ roll, by the New York company the Team. For Theater Lovers, a City Is the Stage, and a Purple Cow Is a Prop 2011-08-12T22:44:06Z For those on the left side of the political spectrum, “Untenable” is a good title not just for the album but for global capitalism itself. D.C. punks Bad Moves expand their sound but keep their focus on ‘Untenable’ 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z K-Punk attracted an avid readership, and, in 2009, Fisher published “Capitalist Realism,” a slim, powerful book about “the widespread acceptance that there is no alternative to capitalism.” Mark Fisher’s “K-Punk” and the Futures That Have Never Arrived 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z Like Engels, Gaskell knows that the consequences of unfettered capitalism are misery for the majority and antagonism between rich and poor. The Unjustly Overlooked Victorian Novelist Elizabeth Gaskell 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z Thus the world turns on the engine of capitalism. New York’s Lost Department Stores 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z Kelly said the stores reflect Starbucks’ core belief in responsible capitalism. Starbucks announces push to open more stores in lower-income communities 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z But Downsizing shows this utopian project promptly being debased by human nature and, more specifically, by American capitalism. Alexander Payne on Downsizing: ‘The film isn’t a major statement – it’s a metaphor’ 2018-01-07T05:00:00Z That possibility was spectacularly realized last week at the Christie’s online sale, inscribing a new chapter in the annals of frictionless capitalism. Perspective | Beeple’s digital ‘artwork’ sold for more than any painting by Titian or Raphael. But as art, it’s a great big zero. 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z The struggle between capitalism and socialism was never a question of how to organize economic life; it was a question of whether life would be organized by economics. Eric Hobsbawm, the Communist Who Explained History 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z K Street is to lobbying what Wall Street is to finance and Rodeo Drive is to luxury shopping: an address synonymous with one of the more avaricious aspects of American capitalism. Hotel Review: Eaton DC, Washington 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z For many on the left, Chávez was not just a man, but a political statement, a visionary rebel ready to question the global hegemonies of imperialism and capitalism in pursuit of a radical alternative. Hugo Chávez: the best books on the late Venezuelan leader 2013-03-07T15:25:53Z "It's not always considered so cool to analyze things in the fashion industry," said Schell, who also directed "Win in China," a documentary about capitalism in the Asian giant. Model's documentary exposes fashion's darker side 2010-09-27T17:58:00Z He also focused close attention on the role of capitalism in racial inequality. #WhiteHouseSoWhite: “I Am Not Your Negro” illuminates America’s ongoing race problem 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z No one likes capitalism when it works against their interests--unfortunately, restaurant owners are going to have to provide benefits and perks for their employees like other industries have in the past. A Worker Shortage Is Forcing Restaurants to Get Creative 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z "The problem is capitalism," a gap-toothed shirtless man, angry red nipples standing in stark contrast to a pasty chest, said to David. Road trip to Powder Keg City: The collapse of Seattle's autonomous zone 2020-08-01T04:00:00Z As heartless as the capitalism that literally grinds his clients — whose limbs are ceremoniously crushed by the machines from which they make their living — Kang-do nevertheless begins a gradual transformation. Movie Review: ‘Pieta,’ Directed by Kim Ki-duk 2013-05-17T00:03:13Z Photograph: Andrew Milligan/PA Need a crash course in digital capitalism? Digital capitalism produces few winners 2013-02-17T00:05:48Z Naomi Klein, the author known for her fierce criticism of unfettered capitalism, is writing a book about the Trump administration. Naomi Klein urges resistance to Donald Trump in upcoming book 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z Or should Labour accept that it is capitalism itself that must be changed? Ralph Miliband and sons 2010-09-06T07:00:00Z At the time it all seemed like the ultimate triumph of democratic capitalism. Alan Greenspan’s Ode to Creative Destruction 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z But underneath the plot’s fast-paced action and Phillips’s all-American heroism, the movie succeeds in its humanization of the Somalis, providing “an unsettling look at global capitalism and American privilege and power,” Dargis wrote. What’s on TV Saturday: ‘Captain Phillips’ and ‘Fly Away Home’ 2020-03-28T04:00:00Z They will focus “on today’s injuries, especially ones rooted in colonialism, capitalism, or patriarchal structures,” they added. Indonesian Art Collective to Curate Next Documenta Exhibition 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z Its redoubtable heroine realises her community is better off outside both official control and heartless modern capitalism. Chinese writers avoiding key issues amid censorship fears, says author 2013-02-06T13:11:00Z What turned individuals away from Ayn Rand was not her atheism, not her defense of laissez-faire capitalism or even her rational demolition of altruism. Jamaican, gay and Ayn Rand made it OK: My amazing “Atlas Shrugged” love story 2014-04-25T23:00:00Z Or is so-called capitalism being revealed as a false freedom? What Trained Bears Can Teach Us About Formerly Authoritarian Countries 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z In between, there are movies about gender bias in art and capitalism’s ill effects on the European working class. What Movie Should You See This Christmas? 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z The new version has an eye toward currency as well, nodding to the perversions of global capitalism. Television Review: The Song Remains the Same, but the Breed of Cop Has Changed 2010-09-19T22:52:00Z Yet under late capitalism these words really seem to mean “please keep working until you collapse”. In case you missed them: the Guardian's unsung heroes of 2020 2020-12-28T05:00:00Z If Pater and Wilde advocated a liberation of the senses, Morris was a Marxist who believed the triumph of beauty would destroy capitalism. Beautiful rebels: the daring art of the aesthetic movement 2011-03-28T20:31:01Z With a singsong rhythm punctuated by snare drums, Diamandis impersonates Mother Nature avenging human failures on “Purge the Poison,” including capitalism, racism, pollution, Harvey Weinstein and the treatment of her beloved Britney Spears. Marina’s Music Was Caught Between Worlds. Now She’s Making Her Own. 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z “Mad Men” largely evades this question; its driving philosophy has little to do with “moralistic” questions of human responsibility but rather the individual’s abiding unhappiness, and how modern capitalism intensifies it. “Breaking Bad’s” hell on earth 2012-07-15T14:30:00Z He protects them from the perceived evils of capitalism but fails to protect them from completely avoidable physical harm. 'Captain Fantastic' Asks What It Means to Be a Good Parent 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z But it took a particularly tone deaf announcement in the midst of the still unfolding Sydney hostage crisis to really hammer home the ugliness of its kneeerk capitalism mode. Uber’s Sydney hostage crisis failure 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z I fear Cuba and its people will fall victim to rapacious capitalism after the old guard in control has passed away. Havana’s Symphony of Sound 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z “It was a hive of commerce and capitalism. It wasn’t for nothing that Shakespeare set ‘The Merchant of Venice’ there.” An Old Master of Painting Was a Master of Marketing 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z The experience has left her with a creative disposition and an underdeveloped interest in capitalism. In the Garden: Thea Alvin on Life With Pebbles and Bam Bam 2013-07-17T23:02:03Z At a time when many believe in unregulated capitalism, this history may suggest reconsidering that faith. ‘Empire of Cotton,’ by Sven Beckert 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z First, capitalism’s victory over Communism meant that the more unbounded capital was, through freer trade and more open capital markets, the better off Americans — and the world — would be. How Victory in the Cold War Led to Tragedy in the Years After 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z The game was invented, she says, as “a protest against capitalism, not an endorsement of it.” ‘The Monopolists’: the history behind a great board game 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z However, rather than question capitalism and globalization, Moyo mounts a vigorous and welcome defense of both. Dambisa Moyo’s Proposals for Saving Democracy 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z It’s almost amusing to encounter this in the ideologically overheated climate of the 2016 election, but Pacelle is a true evangelist for capitalism. Are animals “persons”? Or just cute objects capitalism can save? Animal rights enter a strange new era 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z There Will Be Blood was about entrepreneurial capitalism; was about entrepreneurial religion, gimcrack philosophy, prospecting for snake oil. The 10 best films of 2012, No 1 – The Master 2012-12-13T22:00:28Z Pirates represented a dual threat to the Atlantic Ocean factory of early capitalism. Is piracy a radical force? 2012-09-03T14:30:00Z Rutherford and Son, a little-known tale by neglected playwright Githa Sowerby of family divisions, capitalism and feminism, is directed by Jonathan Miller at the Viaduct theatre in Halifax. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2013-02-08T15:48:00Z The crash of 2008 was a reminder that unregulated capitalism is its own worst enemy: sooner or later it must fall prey to its own excesses and turn again to the state for rescue. Tony Judt: A manifesto for a new politics 2010-03-20T00:07:00Z Saarinen, whose busy practice in the 1950s meant that he was an early frequent flier, created not just a fantasy of air travel, but the ultimate temple to capitalism. Review | The TWA Hotel revives a magnificent, mid-century vision of the friendly skies 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z It’s about space and exploration, sure, and certainly about capitalism and billionaires and questions of economic equity. As Shatner heads toward the stars, visions of space collide 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z By Galloway’s reckoning, the pestilent side effects of unbridled capitalism could be boiled down, in both cause and solution, to women’s willingness in the bedroom. Perspective | No, more sex is not the answer to the country’s problems 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z It’s only the first of many such abuses that the movie documents—and which Cissé depicts as inseparable from the economic abuses of crony capitalism. “Baara”: A Must-See Film of Patriarchal Abuse, at the New York African Film Festival 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z “Parasite” completes a kind of accidental trilogy for Bong of capitalism satires. Fall Preview: Bong Joon Ho and ‘Parasite’ are coming for you 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z Showing how the intricate supply chains of global capitalism shield corporations like Nestlé and Unilever from responsibility, Tandon paints a depressing portrait of pain and poverty and exploitation. ‘Invisible Hands’ Review: The Children Fueling Global Capitalism 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z In many ways, neoliberalism and gangster capitalism are making the individuals and groups who suffer under their rule literally mad. "Joker": A harsh indictment of neoliberalism and gangster capitalism 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z The real triumph of modern capitalism, the novel suggests, is not the division of labor but the division of atrocity that dissipates the burden of guilt. A novelist’s soul-searching rewind to the 1999 eruption on Seattle’s streets 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z That women in positions of power would dismantle capitalism, would dismantle the corporate structure. Laura Kipnis talks about power, anxiety and 'Men' 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z A deeply corrupt New York State government and judiciary allowed Wall Street in the late 1860s to be a free-for-all, capitalism red in tooth and claw. Books of The Times: How Economic Brawn Transformed a Nation 2010-11-19T07:00:00Z In our moment of “quiet quitting,” resistance to corporate domination and a conviction that capitalism is in decay, “Bold Ventures” does arrive as a timely interrogation of what, exactly, constitutes success — of how to live. The Buildings That Drove Their Creators to Despair 2022-09-18T04:00:00Z “I underestimated the ability of capitalism to take in certain rights movements, to view them as new consumer groups to market to,” he said. Coming Out, and Rising Up, in the Fifty Years After Stonewall 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z The United States, with its highly disciplined approach to capitalism, invented the modern corporation and the marvelous, sleek objects it produces. “The Tinkerers”: How corporations kill creativity 2012-12-30T17:00:00Z In his new novel, “Double Blind,” Edward St. Aubyn sets himself that formidable challenge: to explore weighty subjects like biodiversity, schizophrenia and venture capitalism while probing the nature of consciousness and the limits of science. Review | With ‘Double Blind,’ Edward St. Aubyn tasks himself with a formidable challenge 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z It is tempting to say that “Killing It,” on Peacock, is a satire of dog-eat-dog capitalism. Review: On ‘Killing It,’ It’s Dog (and Snake and Gator) Eat Dog 2023-08-17T04:00:00Z But this isn’t necessarily of flaw of capitalism, it’s the entire point. There's a huge row over reclining your airline seat. Is capitalism to blame? 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z If that performance makes a profit — well, that’s capitalism for you, right? Review: In ‘Tambo & Bones,’ a Minstrel’s Guide to Making Money 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z But “The Hunger” is more of a lecture than an opera: Dramatically static and musically amorphous, the work is interspersed with filmed interviews in which academics invoke the evils of capitalism and colonialism. Review: An Unsatisfying Opera (or Is It a Lecture?) 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z This isn’t a tight, tidy allegory of capitalism and colonialism so much as a collage of vivid images, sounds and words that punch the movie’s themes like hashtags. ‘Neptune Frost’ Review: Unanimous Gold Mine 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z Both recent recipients of M.F.A.’s in sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan, they share artistic interests that lie somewhere near the intersection of community, capitalism, patriotism and fun times. Fried Fish and Crawfish Boil, All From a Truck 2010-08-17T22:35:00Z They've taken the show to Portugal, where audiences responded enthusiastically to its disaster capitalism theme. TEAM's Mission Drift: The money markets are in meltdown. Send for Elvis 2011-08-07T21:31:01Z It's a logic that's really more based in cultural conceptions of what that theology should be, which is tied to capitalism. Surviving "God Land" in the age of Trump: Lyz Lenz on faith, politics and the Midwest 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z His stories are set in what might be described as a just slightly futuristic America or, maybe better, present-day America, where, because of the exigencies of capitalism, things have gotten a little weird. George Saunders Has Written the Best Book You’ll Read This Year 2013-01-06T19:57:18Z It would be impossible to put together a comprehensive list of every corporation that's taken part in rainbow capitalism, but some offenders are especially cringe-inducing. After Pride, corporations will "ditch these gays" but the harm will already be done 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z In the midst of the great 19th-century Market Revolution, buying luxury goods became more possible, but remained suspect among Americans who had not yet fully equated consumer capitalism with civic duty. The real history of the “war on Christmas” 2013-12-24T12:45:00Z My theory is that jokes about the Rapture express a deeper anxiety about the decidedly apocalyptic times we live in… It’s clear that there are looming crises in both global capitalism and the environment. Zombie state 2012-06-08T14:45:00Z And the type of work that men do is significantly affected by the function of capitalism. Metrosexual, hipster, spornosexual: Why do we keep redefining men? 2017-05-13T04:00:00Z In depicting three-card monte Parks is also depicting capitalism, the über-hustle. Review: In ‘Topdog/Underdog,’ Staying Alive Is the Ultimate Hustle 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z Friendsgiving has attained the true marker of an American holiday — not recognition from Congress, but from capitalism. Analysis | ‘Maybe you do tacos’: How Friendsgiving became the holiday where you invent your own rituals 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z But I picked up on obviously very satirical tones, and specifically a lot of critique of capitalism. Kim Gordon on "No Home Record" and why "palatable" art doesn't affect change 2019-10-12T04:00:00Z But surveillance capitalism is also many other things: “a parasitic economic logic … a rogue mutation of capitalism … a new collective order based on total certainty” and “an overthrow of the people’s sovereignty.” How Tech Companies Manipulate Our Personal Data 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z All of the horrors are there: the horrors of neo-liberal capitalism, the horrors of authoritarianism and dictatorship, and so on. Simon Critchley on football, philosophy and his new book 'What We Think About When We Think About Soccer' 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z But perhaps the greatest power of neoliberalism and gangster capitalism is the control they assert over people’s emotional lives. "Joker": A harsh indictment of neoliberalism and gangster capitalism 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z If the history of capitalism is any indication about its future, the answer is resoundingly no. Why can't sci-fi and fantasy imagine alternatives to capitalism or feudalism? 2022-02-19T05:00:00Z But this tension — between capitalism and liberation — shadowed Beyoncé’s decade, including in the domestic sphere. 10 years of Beyoncé: A decade "causing all this conversation" 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z Yes, capitalism turns activism inevitably turns activism into a product...a tale as old as time...or at least as old as the twentieth century. Hollywood Uses the Very Women It Exploited to Change the Subject 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z Looks like something’s percolating in pop culture, revealing our growing discontent with America’s twisted brand of capitalism. Why Weird Al is the perfect satirist for America’s stupid, narcissistic capitalist culture 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z The world is on high alert to threats against democracy, but Slobodian, a historian of ideas at Wellesley, calls attention to one of its biggest challengers: capitalism itself. 19 Works of Nonfiction to Read This Spring 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z Ross's journey into knowledge takes in more Bostrom-inspired philosophy about the nature of existence and ethical considerations about our growing digital heritage, not to mention a few good swipes at corporate greed and predator capitalism. Bedlam by Christopher Brookmyre – review 2013-02-14T09:01:01Z It is capitalism that debases character and all human relationships, reducing everything to monetary value while misunderstanding the extent to which humans are not motivated purely by greed or acquisitiveness. Bernard Shaw's guide to the post-crash world 2012-10-12T21:55:16Z The problems with gender representation on "Squid Game" aren't trivial, when we consider how predatory capitalism has particular, disproportionate impacts on women. “Squid Game” missed an opportunity to show capitalism & patriarchy are one 2021-10-10T04:00:00Z This is a time for reflexively critiquing “late capitalism” even as we jostle for its prizes. ‘Wayne’s World’ & Me 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z Furious debates about ends and means, money and morality, capitalism and imperialism. ‘Da 5 Bloods’ Review: Black Lives Mattered in Vietnam, Too 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z Director Mohammad Gorjestani followed Riley for the first film in his series “The Boombox Collection,” as Riley reflects on why he writes music, his future as an artist, and his relentless revolt against capitalism. Music for the underdog: Oakland's Boots Riley leads working class hip-hop movement 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z Ai Wei Wei littered it with sunflower seeds, a commentary on capitalism and China, individuality and production. Damien Hirst at Tate Modern 2012-07-09T14:15:00Z I usually sat scratching my head, wondering about the notion of family, capitalism, nostalgia, my own advertising existence and what it means to live a meaningful 21st century life. This is the only way “Mad Men” should end 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z China, like Russia before it, was driven by historical circumstance to move directly from feudalism to communism without any intermediate phases, and both are now retracing their steps back to capitalism. Why Bob Dylan didn't make a fuss in China 2011-04-09T23:37:00Z Bowman is a language dervish—the pleasure in hearing him describe the adding machine, the source of William S. Burroughs’s family as “the rosary of capitalism,” belongs not to me but to literature. David Bowman and the Furry-Girl School of American Fiction 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z The three principal antiheroes of 21st-century cable television inhabit different regions in the kingdom of modern capitalism. Cross Cuts: How Walter White Found His Inner Sociopath 2013-07-24T14:48:26Z It was part of a series titled The Robber Barons, which made a persuasive analogy between the early industrialists and the fat cat bankers of deregulated capitalism. Is it design, or is it ... art? 2010-05-04T14:49:00Z And the endless greed spawned by free market capitalism and lax regulations, which created the crash in the first place, gets mentioned simply in passing. Letters to the Editor 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z But it’s not that simple: As is the case for every story of a con man and his mark — including the tale of America and capitalism — people believe what they want to believe. Bros in the heart of darkness: Jonah Hill and Miles Teller’s ”War Dogs” is a scathing indictment of Dick Cheney’s America 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z This, I suggest, is due to the in-built anarchism of American capitalism. The myth of the cowboy 2013-03-20T18:00:01Z The opposing view—that feminism is not just broadly compatible with capitalism but actually served by it—has certainly enjoyed its share of prominence. The Case Against Contemporary Feminism 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z Despite the ways the crypto setup broadens Lund’s practice, certain rules of capitalism hold. The Artist Who Guides His Art with Crypto-tokens 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z But the panic shopping, shortages of supplies and the uncoordinated political response, she said, only confirmed her belief that American capitalism is a sham. Will a Pandemic Shatter the Perception of American Exceptionalism? 2020-04-25T04:00:00Z I’m interested in Cedric J. Robinson’s idea of “racial capitalism,” looking at oppression not necessarily just pertaining to skin color but also through economic exploitation and the different strata in our society. In His LAAB Experiment, Ronald Wimberly Plays with Dynamite 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z Yes, it's a Romanian film, but one set in an intimate, highly recognizable middle-class world of consumer capitalism, not some ultra-grimy zone of art-house despair. "Tuesday, After Christmas": A sexy, slow-burning marriage drama 2011-05-27T19:28:00Z Maybe that’s “Industry” commenting on capitalism wringing individuality out of us. Review: ‘Industry’ Is a Familiar Story, but With More Zeros 2020-11-08T05:00:00Z “We found he had a blog where he was just going off on capitalism and Corporate America and pharmaceutical companies especially,” said Marinakis, the director of jury research for Litigation Insights. Harvey Weinstein jury selection: bias, big data and 'likes' 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z For them the investment in the revolution is an investment against the worst excesses of unbridled capitalism. A Separation can't be divorced from Iranian politics 2011-07-05T12:13:51Z They have the greatest interest in the long-term survival of capitalism, especially the superior American version of capitalism. Can’t a capitalist be moral? 2012-06-17T22:00:00Z I remember a communist friend of mine telephoning me from China when Deng Xiaoping announced the "reforms" that were to inaugurate what we now know as Chinese capitalism. Where's Lenin? 2010-04-16T23:08:00Z If they're enslaved by their condition, so are the rest of us by capitalism and officialdom. World War Z unleashes an unedifying breed of zombie 2013-06-17T13:58:58Z To put it in the language of 21st-century capitalism, the founders of Communism are disrupters and innovators, in possession of the entrepreneurial doggedness and the self-righteous zeal required to bend the world to their will. Review: In ‘The Young Karl Marx,’ a Scruffy Specter Haunts Europe 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z Together, we are walking away from white supremacist capitalism and entering into an ecosystem of our own. Taking the leap to be my own boss — even more unapologetically Black and free 2021-06-12T04:00:00Z Or maybe it’s just good old capitalism at work. The Chinese Farmer Who Live-Streamed Her Life and Made a Fortune 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z In particular, the question that directed me the past few years is whether the way in which the corporation was being remade in Silicon Valley is the often heralded new future of capitalism. In-work dining at Silicon Valley companies like Google and Facebook causes spike in divorce rate 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z But, he added, of his take on a work that has been variously seen as a parable of industrial capitalism, a feminist fable, an absurdist fantasia and much more: “It’s not a politics-free zone.” The Stakes Are Sky-High for a ‘Ring’ Coming to the Met Opera 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z Achieving moral purity through self-denial is a concept with puritanical roots that flowered in American capitalism, wherein thinness is both status and symbol. Review | Melissa Febos’s ‘Girlhood’ brilliantly illuminates how women are conditioned to be complicit in their own exploitation 2021-03-27T04:00:00Z Marx was wrong: capitalism did not die of its internal contradictions, but because the people running the show are knackered, and pointlessly busy. In praise of … getting your eight hours 2013-04-02T21:12:53Z The exhibition presents the end of capitalism not just as a premise, but as an aspiration. Cheeseburgers, Oil and Minimum Wage: Building a Museum of Capitalism 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z "The idea that my personal food choices — what I buy, what I consume — can have these larger political impacts on global hunger, the environment and capitalism," Kauffman said in an interview with CUESA. From "Bad Vegan" to "Broad City," how pop culture "others" health food 2022-04-24T04:00:00Z It is not a disease of western capitalism. Mental illness: is there really a global epidemic? 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z With the fall of communism in 1989, capitalism had finally defeated its mortal enemy, and its existence was no longer being threatened, as in Keynes’ time. Socialism vs. barbarism: Only social democracy can defeat the right-wing radicalism of Donald Trump 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z In Midnight is a Place, the mood is Dickensian and über-real, dramatically capturing the relentless drive of industrialisation and capitalism, the language richly inventive. Teen book club: Lydia Syson's top 10 historical novels 2012-11-29T16:39:14Z Rowling, and a bit too enmeshed in a system I was finding more and more distasteful: namely, capitalism. Oprah can still bring this gay man to tears 2011-01-26T21:30:00Z Three recent collections from writers with roots in Nigeria, Japan, and the Dominican Republic direct their slant lenses toward capitalism, patriarchy, and white supremacy. In the latest wave of science fiction, authors of color take space to imagine multiple new societies 2021-05-17T04:00:00Z To a certain extent, the argument was a theoretical one, part of a left-wing critique of the structure of capitalism. A Woman’s Place Is on the Internet 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z They suggest that photography was central to the formation of modern aesthetics, modes of production and capitalism — ultimately becoming, itself, a cunning and ubiquitous apparatus: another machinery for living. ‘A Machinery for Living’ 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z A few fall months previous, I’d been a speaker at a Cornell University conference on capitalism. Down and out in Portland: Lean seasons had always been part of my writing life, but this time I was dead broke 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z They hunt and fish, when not learning languages or practicing martial arts, and in the evenings they sit around reading heavyweight novels and listening to Dad inveigh against capitalism and corrupt politicians. Viggo Mortensen Goes Off the Grid With ‘Captain Fantastic’ 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z Thompson rejected the notion that capitalism was inherently superior to the alternative model of economic organisation it replaced. EP Thompson: the unconventional historian 2013-03-06T15:05:11Z Was handing over cash the sacred rite of American capitalism—and of American life? My Struggle with American Small Talk 2016-07-04T04:00:00Z The Adios effect ad is fairly standard as insecurity-preying capitalism goes. The Hard Sell: The Adios Effect 2011-07-08T23:06:45Z “But at the same time, there are forces of capitalism, extraction and marginalization that cause traditions to die.” Serving Up West Virginia History, Not All of It Sweet 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z Though these movies are tales about the human experience, the most fundamental part of life under capitalism is ignored and replaced with an escapist monomyth. The labor laws of the superhero universe amount to disturbing propaganda 2022-05-14T04:00:00Z A significant section of the book traces his compromising relationship with a Muslim hedge fund manager who lures Ayad into high society and gives him a lesson in predatory capitalism. Review | Ayad Akhtar’s play ‘Disgraced’ won a Pulitzer Prize. Now ‘Homeland Elegies’ shows what that success cost him. 2020-08-31T04:00:00Z Mayfield was also an early exponent and practitioner of black capitalism in the music industry. Recalling Curtis Mayfield, Soul’s ‘Genius of Gentleness’ 2012-07-19T21:57:14Z Hill the expert points to heartening examples of benevolent capitalism at work. In a Memoir, the Impeachment Witness Fiona Hill Recounts Her Journey From ‘Blighted World’ to White House 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z As a parent, I've watched my daughters lured by what Thomas Frank calls "academic capitalism," the false promise that a name-brand college diploma — whatever the cost — will assure a prosperous future. That Wall Street Journal op-ed about Dr. Jill Biden isn't just sexist — it's classist, too 2020-12-15T05:00:00Z In this way, we are becoming prisoners of our social appetites – slaves to me-versus-you interactions, through which we perform free, futile emotional labour that profits capitalism, but can only make us unhappier. Facebook's greatest weapon: endless comparison of ourselves to others 2018-01-20T05:00:00Z At the time in 2012, Occupy Wall Street was dominating the news cycle, and at Burning Man there was a life-size installation that was meant to represent the financial exploitation of people by speculative capitalism. Exclusive: Burning Man is supposed to be a safe space. Sexual assault survivors say it's not 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z They both clearly represented radically different views about capitalism. Michael Moore’s terrifying “Fahrenheit 11/9″: Trump is the symptom, not the disease 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z Many conservatives maintain "capitalism and consumerism and growing individualism" have led to "decay in the society". India gang rape outcry provokes fierce debate on attitudes to women 2013-01-15T12:45:18Z The industry and its participants are thus responding not only to the imperatives of language but also to the imperatives of capitalism. He Never Existed. Here Are His Selected Poems. 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z Throughout the book, Pierre explicitly aligns the decadence he describes with capitalism gone bad. Where did the decadent novel go? 2010-09-29T08:30:00Z "It's celebratory of American capitalism, but it's also questioning that." Enron on Broadway: tale of risk is itself risky 2010-04-23T16:38:00Z “But let’s not romanticize socialism the way conservatives romanticize capitalism. These are economic systems, not your first kiss.” Bill Maher dumps on millennial socialist dreams : They’re “too used to getting sh*t for free” 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z Surveying the entire affair, he concluded, “This is the triumph of capitalism, having the small fish biting at each other.” Claiming a Copyright on Marx? How Uncomradely 2014-05-01T02:53:35Z “It was partly me attacking the system of capitalism, but inevitably also the systems of war, the warmongers, and destroying them in a sense symbolically.” Gustav Metzger, ‘Auto-Destructive Art’ Provocateur, Dies at 90 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z In China's case, this means a unique form of state capitalism that still retains many of the authoritarian practices common to both the feudal and communist stages of its history. Why Bob Dylan didn't make a fuss in China 2011-04-09T23:37:00Z As James Sallis writes in his introduction to this edition, “His stories of cornered individuals become an indictment of capitalism’s excesses, its unchallenged power, its reliance on distraction and spectacle.” Books to Watch Out For: July 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z One is hardworking Jack, who has inherited his mother's socialist leanings, but is periodically diverted from bringing down capitalism by his secret and exhausting life as Isabel's sex-monkey. Your next box set: Brass 2012-05-24T15:00:01Z Can capitalism — fearsome, proven reaper of the planet’s natural systems — actually work as a force for conservation? T Magazine: Send in the Clouds 2011-11-18T13:08:53Z “Our system is called capitalism. It’s designed to optimize for long-term growth of capital. When people wonder, ‘Well, are capital owners advantaged over labor?’ it ain’t called laborism.” Dara Khosrowshahi, Dad of Silicon Valley 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z As a worldwide phenom, "Squid Game" has been sparking powerful conversations about capitalism, Korean culture and language since its release last month, and the buzz doesn't appear to be letting up any time soon. “Squid Game” costumes are being banned from some schools for their "violent message" 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z Funding never materialized and if I understood that I would understand capitalism, which I don't. What's the best baseball movie? 2011-09-23T20:59:00Z Socialist writers, anarchist writers, and communist writers are well-positioned to think differently about some of the most basic and everyday practices of life under capitalism. Why can't sci-fi and fantasy imagine alternatives to capitalism or feudalism? 2022-02-19T05:00:00Z “But capitalism and markets should be the slave of democracy and not the opposite.” Thomas Piketty Tours U.S. for His New Book 2014-04-18T21:37:26Z Sanrio may finally be exploring the fallout of global capitalism, but it is still processing class anxieties through products. How Sanrio Makes Anti-Capitalism Adorable, and Profitable 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z In a recent state of ire about unfettered capitalism, I unsuccessfully rage-cooked a batch of mapo tofu — the intoxicating Sichuan dish of tofu and minced fatty meat suspended in thin, tingly spiced sauce. Do not rage-cook mapo tofu, and other emotional kitchen lessons 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z “Urbanization and capitalism were liberating people from the constraints of an agricultural cycle and making larger quantities of goods available for more extended periods of time,” Nissenbaum observes. The real history of the “war on Christmas” 2013-12-24T12:45:00Z It's just naked capitalism where they're saying, "OK, we need to appear less biased towards the left." "That's where I draw the line": David Cross has words for comics who moan about cancel culture 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z The Guggenheim says Feldmann is portraying currency as mass-produced material used every day, rather than a symbol of capitalism. 100,000 dollar bills will become art in NYC 2011-05-04T16:37:02Z In many ways, today's right-wing movement is a type of death cult that is eager and willing to sacrifice its own members as well as the innocent for "capitalism," "gun rights," and "individual liberty." "I don't want to be L. Ron Hubbard": Andy Weir on writing escapism & new book "Project Hail Mary" 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z Protesting consumerism, but only thanks to the abilities and freedoms provided by capitalism. The Real Burning Man 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z The relationship is entirely conscripted as service and bound by capitalism and the fantastically presumptive leap is, The money doesn’t matter because I like working for you. Why Do the Oscars Keep Falling for Racial Reconciliation Fantasies? 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z Indeed, Mr. Cao, a product of Communist China who teaches American workers the hard realities of global capitalism, is in many respects the film’s protagonist. Julia Reichert, Documentarian of the Working Class, Dies at 76 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z Or have we now reached the stage of late capitalism where people fake motorcycle accidents in order to increase their social media followers? The mystery of the influencer and the Instagrammed motorcycle accident 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z This seems to be the reason that capitalism still functions, despite its heavy cost to the family, the environment and social structures; no other system produces such beautiful toys. Cooper Hewitt design museum’s artful renovation matches mansion to mission We’re going to have, of course, a capitalist economy, but it’s capitalism that is responsible capitalism and fair capitalism. The Democratic Presidential Candidate Eager to Challenge Trump on Immigration 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z As for the authors’ call to counter capitalism’s unrestrained impulse to distribute up, the conservative might counter, “Not to worry, benefits will trickle down.” How the White Working Class Is Being Destroyed 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z By this, Debord meant the relentless commodification of human experience that was, and indeed still is, the defining characteristic of late capitalism. The Beach Beneath the Street by McKenzie Wark ? review 2011-08-18T09:00:01Z He’s got plenty to say where the insidious evils of capitalism are concerned, but his film paints law enforcement as nothing more than the faceless enactors of the overclass’s whims. From the streets to the screen: how Hollywood is tackling police brutality 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z Gang of Four’s lyrics and imagery critiqued colonialism, capitalism and consumerism. Gang of Four changed the way punk sounded and what it could say. A new box set reveals the peak of their power. 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z Marxism, capitalism, industrialisation, ecology: there's space for any hobbyhorse. Das Rheingold/Die Walküre – review 2012-09-29T23:07:03Z Not only did modern capitalism evolve at this time, but the rules needed to govern that capitalism and prevent the development of a plutocracy also had to be developed simultaneously. Books of The Times: How Economic Brawn Transformed a Nation 2010-11-19T07:00:00Z In fact it was capitalism that proved to be the revolutionary force in the late 20th century, consigning socialism to the memory hole. Ralph Miliband and sons 2010-09-06T07:00:00Z So many spaces where we interact with each other in the era of late capitalism bring out our absolute worst and threaten to make cranks of us all. Space austerity: plane seats and change rooms needn't bring out our worst 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z And there’s the parable “Fish,” in which Mr. Brooks learns the wisdom of simplicity, and the rejection of big-city capitalism, from a guy with a fishing rod. Garth Brooks Is Back With a New Album, ‘Man Against Machine’ 2014-11-09T05:00:00Z A central flaw is that the illusion is not intrinsic to the human condition but rather a key factor in market capitalism. Gatsby and the way we live now 2013-05-31T16:27:58Z George Babbitt rebels not only against racism, consumerism, religious conformity and capitalism. Markov Chains, Sinclair Lewis and Other Letters to the Editor 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z They offer the culture a late-stage capitalism variation on the theme — a narrative that space travel isn’t just for scientists and diplomats but for you and me, too. As Shatner heads toward the stars, visions of space collide 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z Will the third season of UnReal reveal the show to be trashy high camp or acute commentary on toxic women in the workplace and what happens when you apply capitalism to love? The return of UnReal: can the new season restore the show to former glory? 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z The motifs of nature that Smiley has so carefully constructed are in clear danger from capitalism run amok. ‘Golden Age’ review: Jane Smiley brings America into the age of terror 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z Instead, it’s a sharp critique of capitalism and how it squeezes people in those situations. Boots Riley’s career of confronting capitalism finally hits the big screen with ‘Sorry to Bother You’ 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z Before the rise of surveillance capitalism, they thrilled at the tens of millions of dollars they had conjured from sex.com. A Wild West Story About the Early Internet and Sex.com 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z It was a pastoral blue-collar environment, in the last throes of communism, with no video games and only one English-language TV station — the opposite of the skyscraping capitalism that was their birthright. Eric and Don have the Trump name, the money, the genes. Here’s what makes them different. 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z And yet still this blurring of subjects and objects is not the product of capitalism. Undercover Undertaker shows dignity in death is a cultural concern 2012-06-26T16:44:32Z Life under capitalism encouraged individuals to perfect themselves, Holzinger said, adding that her work delved into the ways this shaped women’s bodies. Florentina Holzinger Makes Everyone Uncomfortable 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z Rather, it’s a “potentially problematic, but also potentially kind of fun expression of late capitalism.” Advent calendars are raking it in while counting it down 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z That culture – of the modern Bengali – was neither ancient nor classical; it was hybrid, bourgeois, nationalistic and cosmopolitan, a byproduct of early capitalism and the colonial encounter. My hero: Ravi Shankar by Amit Chaudhuri 2012-12-12T17:35:01Z Is there a subconscious affection here, maybe impossible for him to acknowledge, for American capitalism? Josh Kline’s Survival Art for 21st-Century America 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z The United States is a society structured around racism, sexism and capitalism. Professor targeted by right wing attack speaks out: “It was a blitzkrieg” 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z The problem with pasta, she explains – I promise I am not making this up – is rampant capitalism. Delia’s problem with pasta: fresh isn't best | The Delia project 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z Being true to oneself is a key issue in Clifford Odets' dark play, "The Big Knife," written in 1948 during the flush of postwar success, when America's focus turned toward capitalism. Review: Fame cuts both ways in 'The Big Knife' 2013-04-17T03:16:04Z As well as chronicling what he saw as its achievements Ferguson posited that with empire, Britain founded global "liberal" capitalism, withdrawing altruistically from its territories when the fruit was ripe. Empire of Secrets by Calder Walton – review 2013-01-31T11:00:01Z We are, Piketty suggested, returning to the kind of dynastic, “patrimonial” capitalism that prevailed in the late 19th century. Thomas Piketty Turns Marx on His Head 2020-03-08T05:00:00Z It is time to wake up and repudiate the notion that capitalism and democracy are the same thing. Are the politics of “incivility” paving the road to an American fascism? Part 2 of 2 2018-09-02T04:00:00Z On making “The Judge” between “Iron Man 3” and “Avengers: Age Of Ultron”: “It was a really nice, long intermission between outright capitalism -- capitalism with flair, but capitalism still.” 'Captain America 3:' What Robert Downey Jr. says about his plans 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z After all, Avatar was a film with a strong ecological message about how capitalism’s destruction of the environment caused unknowable physical and spiritual pain to those who lived in it. Part dinosaur, part Mars bar … it's the Avatar-inspired Mercedes-Benz! 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z An overconfidence fueled by a faith in capitalism everlasting eventually undoes the dynasty. Review | ‘The Lehman Trilogy’ is so good, it expands your sense of what three actors on a stage can conjure 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z Nor did she probably think of it fundamentally as an indictment of capitalism. “It’s a Wonderful Life”: Occupy Bedford Falls! 2012-12-08T00:30:00Z Indeed, so entwined is capitalism with American society that, to many, it is almost synonymous with democracy. When capitalism consumed the Internet 2013-01-03T19:00:00Z “You get the idea! It’s not going to be perfect. But perfection is capitalism.” Willie Norris Has Some Words For Us 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z “What makes American business distinctive? On a national level, it’s the interplay of capitalism and democracy. On the personal level, it’s how do you balance your ambition and goals with the common good?” What can an old wooden cart teach us about American ingenuity? 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z There’s something about China and its rush to capitalism that I find confusing. Theater: David Henry Hwang?s ?Chinglish? 2011-10-23T03:27:21Z Joyce Appleby, a distinguished historian and prolific author who argued that ideas about capitalism and liberty were fundamental in shaping the identity of early Americans, died on Dec. 23 at her home in Taos, N.M. Joyce Appleby, Historian of Capitalism and American Identity, Is Dead at 87 2017-01-02T05:00:00Z French economist Thomas Piketty’s learned treatise on capitalism and how it is contributing to rising inequality worldwide. What are the most-checked-out books at Seattle Public Library? 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z But it may be asking too much of “The East” — which is, after all, a twisty, breathless genre film — to wish that it would frame the contradictions of contemporary capitalism more rigorously. Movie Review: ‘The East,’ Written by Zal Batmanglij and Brit Marling 2013-05-30T20:11:16Z “One is the expansion of American capitalism on the backs of enslaved human beings,” said Mr. Baptist, who grew up in Durham, N.C., the son of a librarian mother and a biochemist father. 'The Half Has Never Been Told' Follows the Money of Slavery 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z Lewis blames capitalism, a system in which, she argues, everyone needs a home team—people to root for, and to fall back on when things go south. Can Surrogacy Remake the World? 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z While Guzmán belongs to the old system of paternalistic capitalism, Los Zetas were born of the free market, with perfect understanding of the opportunist new forces that pertain in the supposedly “legal” economy. Mexico: How arrest of the last don heralds ruthless new drugs era 2014-10-04T04:00:00Z Today, artists are more liable to be described as the “gentrifying foot soldiers of capitalism,” harbingers of highfalutin coffee and six-figure loft living. How artists became capitalist 'foot soldiers' in the gentrification wars: Case study, Boyle Heights 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z A political science course took a Marxist view, discussing the work as an emblem of the dark side of capitalism. ‘Glengarry Glen Ross’ at Fairfield, as a Classroom Text 2012-10-15T22:34:09Z I read the eulogies for Margaret Thatcher and I thought that woman mistook capitalism as the framework by which you build a just and viable society. David Simon: 'I don't want anybody in jail for using drugs' 2013-05-11T17:00:10Z If she really wants to convey thoughts and feelings about terrorism and capitalism, she probably needs more explicit imagery and a darker palette. Art in Review: Sue Williams: ‘WTC, WWIII, Couch Size’ 2014-01-30T21:43:51Z We talk about the expression laissez-faire capitalism, which we've pretty much never had. Alex Gibney on "Citizen K": Real-life thriller of an oligarch who turned against Vladimir Putin 2020-01-18T05:00:00Z Mamet’s cussing crew have shown what dog-eat-dog capitalism can make men do. Norris has been brewing a comedy so toxic with hypocrisy and resentment that the laughter practically scalds our throats. In defense of anger: A critic's appeal to playwrights to let their tempers fly 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z Markets were unstoppable, commercial development proceeded like a forest fire and the streetscapes of our great trading enclaves expressed the frenzied ambition of untrammeled capitalism. Perspective | Forget the tanks. Trump’s violation of the Lincoln Memorial is the real offense. 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z Residents of Janesville are familiar with the dynamics of late capitalism. “Janesville” and the Dangers of American Optimism 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z By 1880, the inequalities of capitalism were so vast that they threatened democracy itself.” Review: ‘American Experience’ Traces President Garfield’s Assassination 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z International capitalism has always produced vast inequalities, along with cycles of boom and bust. Readers recommend their favourite books of 2010 2011-01-01T00:05:32Z Thanks to capitalism, technology and human ambition, these demands keep increasing, while your capacities remain largely fixed. Oliver Burkeman's last column: the eight secrets to a (fairly) fulfilled life 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z I am not, for all my frustration, opposed to capitalism. ‘Poor people don’t plan long-term. We’ll just get our hearts broken’ 2014-09-21T04:00:00Z His process involves a lot of research — on sustainability, predatory capitalism, psychology — but his work is far from didactic or heavy-handed. Can art help fight climate change? These 4 Seattle-area artists think so. 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z But are there any plays that present a more depressing spectacle of American capitalism in action than Glengarry Glen Ross? The Root of All Evil: Glengarry Glen Ross and Golden Boy on Broadway 2012-12-11T16:00:50Z I decided not to hate myself for finding my footing on the precipice that is American capitalism. 'I wanted something that was mine': why I bought a house at 25 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z In rather heavy-handed fashion, it suggests that the mob functions as a microcosm of American capitalism. 5 films about the financial crisis you can bank on 2012-11-29T23:48:09Z In the 1970s, he denounced Castro's Cuba and slowly warmed to free-market capitalism, although he does not consider himself a conservative. Mario Vargas Llosa wins Nobel literature prize 2010-10-07T19:38:00Z In other words, the option most women are unable to choose and the one capitalism will never recommend. It is a scandal that working mothers are 40% more stressed than other people | Chitra Ramaswamy 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z Inspired by Tressell's own life and fear of poverty and the looming workhouse, the novel offers a cogent study of capitalism in the workplace. This week's new theatre 2010-06-11T23:05:00Z Amateur sports are actually wonderful and must be kept separate in some ways, but professional sports, in part just because of the basics of capitalism, have to be violent and extreme. Dudes on Ice: A Play About Hockey Tackles Masculinity, Too 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z Strikes happen infrequently in a country as dedicated to capitalism as America, and even more rarely within internationally-acclaimed orchestras. Top players fall silent as Detroit Symphony Orchestra fights for survival 2010-11-19T18:12:00Z The Puritan ethic did a lot more than promote capitalism. Catherine Hakim: charm school marm 2011-08-19T22:01:41Z Or are we supposed to be gloomy that capitalism lives on? Franz Kafka's election guide 2010-04-08T09:15:00Z As the guests cough up their dinner, the two men regurgitate undergraduate-level aperçus about capitalism. ‘Triangle of Sadness’ Review: Don’t Worry, Be Happy 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z “And when it is based on consumerism and capitalism, this is what fills the gap: companies coming in to make these purchases more attainable, even if there are downsides.” Would You Take Out a Loan to Buy This Week’s Groceries? 2022-08-29T04:00:00Z Suddenly capitalism as something to be thought about, rather than just accepted as the unquestioned norm, existed again. Novelist Jonathan Lethem: "There is no allegory crude enough" to capture Trump's America 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z The United States’ foreign policy is essentially to make people American through capitalism or kill them. Tipping breeds indentured servitude 2013-09-09T12:00:00Z Sobriety, the inequities of banking practices, the “talk” Black parents have with their children about the police and, of course, capitalism — all these topics and more come under examination here. ‘88’ Review: Finding Hate in Numbers 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z There were “edible artifacts” of capitalism like cheeseburgers and energy bars, passed on trays bearing museum-like labels. Cheeseburgers, Oil and Minimum Wage: Building a Museum of Capitalism 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z Eastern Europe was dipping a toe into the cold bath of free-market capitalism, and Mr. Browder, fresh out of Stanford University’s business school, wanted to jump in, too. Bill Browder’s ‘Red Notice,’ About His Russian Misadventures 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z A socialist, he argued that local culture helped people maintain an independence of mind in the face of capitalism, which he said inevitably pulled them toward homogenized thinking. Richard H. Hoggart, ‘Lady Chatterley’s’ Savior, Dies at 95 2014-04-23T20:45:56Z “Friday Black” is one of three stories in the book exploring capitalism and mall culture in a way I’ve never read before. ‘Friday Black’ Paints a Dark Portrait of Race in America 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z Jay-Z enters his sixth decade still close to the height of his lyrical powers, still pop culture’s most visible avatar of late capitalism. Review | In Michael Eric Dyson’s new book, Jay-Z is the living embodiment of American ideals 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z But the personal story acts as a metaphor for a critique of two cultures which shows modern China adopting some of the worst features of western capitalism. Blue Dragon - review 2011-02-19T00:26:01Z It doesn't take long for it to set up an examination of how capitalism supports oppressive systems, making life difficult for anyone trying to eke out a living independent of those structures. There's no hiding from it: The politics of "Andor" look a lot like the type troubling our world 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z There’s only a little time left to invest in a ticket to Bruce Norris’s picaresque about free-market capitalism. 10 Plays and Musicals to Go to in NYC This Weekend 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z The hydra was the preferred metaphor authorities used against all manner of resistance to the violent and tumultuous enclosures of common property in the early centuries of capitalism. Is piracy a radical force? 2012-09-03T14:30:00Z When King aimed to address northern styled segregation and close economic gaps for the working poor by demanding capitalism to negotiate with human dignity, repeated failure replaced repeated victories. Finding hope on Martin Luther King Day, even in these times of struggle 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z For Ruskin, too, was rejecting ugliness, above all attacking the ugliness of industrial capitalism. Did the aesthetic rebels get Ruskin wrong? 2011-03-29T16:14:06Z Far more significantly, he attempted to provide an overall theoretical description of how capitalism worked, especially in “Capital”, which was published in 1867. False consciousness 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z This is the so-called knowledge economy, a term that points less to global capitalism as a whole than to the American position in the international division of labor. Is piracy a radical force? 2012-09-03T14:30:00Z He makes himself into the puppet that poetry has made of the words he uses, and the puppet that capitalism has, he believes, made of literature. A Radical Poet in the Age of Google and Guantánamo 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z Rings of luggage encircling empty carousels in Chicago, in a kind of artistic commentary on capitalism and modern itinerancy. Perspective | We’ve lost our luggage, and our minds 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z As an artist, he’s been known for addressing and critiquing social and political issues, including capitalism, poverty and immigration, through sculpture that is both minimalist and eye-catching. In Transit: At a London Exhibition, News Becomes Art 2010-10-14T10:00:00Z New Amsterdam was, says one commenter, where modern capitalism was invented. TV highlights 21/05/2012 2012-05-20T19:00:08Z But if this is so, what role can there be for a party that aims to make capitalism a force for the collective good? Ralph Miliband and sons 2010-09-06T07:00:00Z Under the regime of surveillance capitalism, it is not enough simply to gather information about what people do. How Tech Companies Manipulate Our Personal Data 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z In his script, lots of his philosophical concerns – what it is to be human, the dangers of technology, the perils of capitalism – are explored. A hotline to Satan: why is the ex-CEO of Vodafone making a film version of Faust? 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z By his account, the rapid spread of lighting in our time is a major, and endangering, feature of capitalism. The End of Night by Paul Bogard – review 2013-07-14T08:00:01Z It was born in capitalism, but that has nothing to do with the art. As hip-hop turns 50, Chuck D praises its power as "a worldwide cultural experience and religion" 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z They unleashed the dogs of capitalism to hijack this society. Documentary “The King”: “The American people are Elvis. They have been hoodwinked” 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z In language as crass and cadenced as gunfire, Mamet turned their man-eat-man philosophy, which some call capitalism, into brutal prole poetry: a poetry of predation, you might even say. Review: In ‘American Buffalo,’ Grift Is the Coin of the Realm 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z But when a friend suggested that she take a closer look at the book’s complex and often loaded treatment of capitalism and social hierarchy, she became excited. An Artist’s Queer Take on ‘Moby-Dick’ 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z Mr. Sigarev has documented a historical moment, as Russia’s industrial cities were jolted by the arrival of capitalism. Vassily Sigarev, a Voice From Russia’s Rust Belt 2012-07-29T22:00:23Z His personal life echoed their warnings; he was repulsed by the runaway capitalism and corporate complicity of the 1990s. 'The Man Who Quit Money': Foreswearing the almighty dollar 2012-03-01T00:12:03Z The problem, he realized, was the way of running things called capitalism, and Bray now set about trying to explain this instead. Not in York's guidebooks - yet. Take a walk through radical York 2013-01-16T07:01:00Z Any democracy coupled with unfettered capitalism will not, by definition, be a healthy one; the mechanisms of this democracy will invariably be corrupted by the forces of power and information asymmetry. Neil deGrasse Tyson gets democracy all wrong: We don’t deserve the one we get — we get the one elites gives us 2015-05-23T04:00:00Z He's not against democracy, per se, he just thinks our democratic institutions are no longer capable of controlling global capitalism. Slavoj Žižek: 'Humanity is OK, but 99% of people are boring idiots' 2012-06-10T19:00:05Z So do I. But our remonstrance seems futile against a people whose false gods include the biblical golden calf of capitalism itself. Why did it take 10 years for America to leave Michael Jackson's Neverland? 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z Mr Ma does not believe in religion or communism, saving his faith for a kind of inclusive capitalism. Crocodile of the Yangzi 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z "It gave a political poetry to capitalism — capitalism as the only moral way people should live in this world." 'Atlas Shrugged' finally comes to the screen 2011-04-10T05:00:00Z With the global economic meltdown providing inspiration, End of the Rainbow finds him rueing capitalism, materialism and social climbing. Van Morrison: Born to Sing: No Plan B – review 2012-09-27T21:18:01Z She traveled back in time for her last movie, “First Cow,” a moving chronicle of love, land and capitalism set in the Oregon Territory in the 19th century. ‘Showing Up’ Review: Making Art in All Its Everyday Glory 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z From certain angles, she explained, the sculpture’s spherical rocks will look as if they are perched on the surrounding buildings, so that “capitalism becomes a pedestal for the globe.” On the Met Roof, Alicja Kwade’s Test of Faith 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z In horrifying, meticulous detail, this book illustrates the centrality of violence to capitalism. A New Book Speaks Plainly About the Large Role White Women Played in Perpetuating Slavery 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z Graeber believes that democracy – or rather, the thing that we have come to call democracy, with its professional politicians, political parties and preoccupation with the money – has been entirely co-opted by finance capitalism. The Democracy Project: a History, a Crisis, a Movement by David Graeber – review 2013-03-28T16:10:18Z Nor is it new to fume that poets in particular grow dull amid the trappings of capitalism. Make kids memorize poetry 2012-06-13T02:00:00Z Nothing in popular culture, or in consumer capitalism, is ever really new. Even Superheroes Punch the Clock 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z Over the past four decades, though, global capitalism has increasingly come to set the rules for nation-states. How Rampant Globalization Brought Us Trump 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z To which Hanna-Attisha adds “greed, anti-intellectualism and even laissez-faire neoliberal capitalism. These are powerful forces most of us don’t notice, and don’t want to.” Toxic History, Poisoned Water: The Story of Flint 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z I even believed in a third way, I thought it was possible to put a human face on capitalism. Hugo Ch?vez grants rare interview to western media 2010-06-13T17:09:00Z The study of pre-modern history, Sweet wrote, is shrinking, while scholars of all periods increasingly question whether work that doesn’t focus on “contemporary social justice issues” like race, gender and capitalism really matters. As Historians Gather, No Truce in the History Wars 2023-01-08T05:00:00Z One informant warned agents that Bradbury, who died June 5 at age 91, wrote stories that were "definitely slanted" against capitalism. FBI suspected Ray Bradbury of communist sympathies 2012-08-30T18:48:16Z Imagine a creature whose sole purpose is weaponised destruction at an unfathomable level, created by unfettered capitalism and paid for by nefarious Russian interests. Mad hair. Russian owners. Is Jurassic World 2’s meanest dinosaur really Donald Trump? 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z A lot of people refer to this era as neoliberalism, a specific form of capitalism that leaves markets free of regulation. Metrosexual, hipster, spornosexual: Why do we keep redefining men? 2017-05-13T04:00:00Z “Doesn’t it just show the willingness of capitalism to straddle the divide?” she said. Brit Marling on Writing, Anarchists, and the Need to Get Her Heart Broken 2013-06-01T12:00:23Z The implication was that instead of the “disaster capitalism” that journalist Naomi Klein has documented in the aftermath of events like Hurricane Katrina, we might see its benevolent sister: “disaster environmentalism.” Can we build a sustainable Japan? 2013-03-12T18:50:00Z But the film’s codes, signs and symbols actually belong to capitalism and its new elite. Crazy Rich Asians is no racial triumph. It's a soulless salute to the 1% 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z They speak about disaster capitalism, the interconnection of social justice and environmentalism, and the displacement of poor black and brown communities. Inside Washington’s new anti-Trump hotel 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z That newspaper was once a cheerleader of global capitalism. Fareed Zakaria Looks at Life After the Pandemic 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z Me: You don't think it says anything interesting about capitalism? My wife: A devastating critique. Magic Mike turned me gay! 2012-07-06T13:00:00Z Her books included "Scarifications" and "Mouth On Paper," and she recorded often with her band the Firespitters, chanting indictments of racism, sexism and capitalism. Poet-performer Jayne Cortez dies in NY at age 78 2013-01-05T22:58:09Z Its bureaucrats are left to try to salvage communism through fire-sale capitalism: selling off artworks, importing garbage from West Germany, allowing medical tests on its citizens. Review: ‘Deutschland 86,’ an East-West Thriller, Looks South 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z But he mused that sometimes the system “works too well”: “I think capitalism has its claws in our democratic societies in ways that has allowed it to overly optimize for its benefit.” Dara Khosrowshahi, Dad of Silicon Valley 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z Indeed, when the Treasury secretary at the time, Timothy Geithner, opposed the politically popular tactic of denying Wall Street executives their bonuses — protesting that it “ would be the end of capitalism as we know it!” David Axelrod’s ‘Believer: My Forty Years in Politics’ 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z Series director and writer Hwang Dong-hyu has said in a previous interview that he designed the tale as a critique of capitalism, demonstrated by the desperation massive indebtedness stokes in each character. The allure of Netflix's brutal "Squid Game" owes a debt to our predatory upbringing 2021-10-02T04:00:00Z Speckled with present-day politics and musings on global capitalism, “Have a Nice Day” conjures a small-town landscape of pitiless greed. Review: In ‘Have a Nice Day,’ a Follow-the-Money Tale in China 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z Despite my admitted initial cynicism about "rainbow capitalism" and whether a multi-billion dollar corporation can assert itself as an ally, Oreo is doing all the right things here. "I do not like gay cookies": Conservatives vow to boycott Oreo over new ad 2022-04-05T04:00:00Z For all the film’s allegorical commentary on capitalism and morning-in-America self-deception, director Bennett Miller ultimately allowed the story to stay as it was: bizarre, bewildering and surpassingly sad. The best movies of 2014: ‘Boyhood,’ ‘Force Majeure,’ ‘Selma’ and more During Gen X’s formative years, Americans were embracing individualism, the free marketplace and unabashed capitalism. We thought Gen X was a bunch of slackers. Now they’re the suits. 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z It is a museum for people who are as comfortable with art as social experiment and provocation as they are with untrammeled, winner-takes-all capitalism. From home of Wal-Mart, a world-class museum rises 2011-10-15T00:11:04Z Is the work a wry critique of capitalism? Newly Minted Work by a Change Artist 2020-05-31T04:00:00Z One of the defining attributes of capitalism is that the market determines what succeeds even if it means that the Kardashian Kollection might bring in more money than all the bespoke suits in the world. It’s the Economy: What’s a $4,000 Suit Worth? 2012-09-05T03:19:28Z During the Great Depression, Adolf Hitler championed both capitalism and anti-Semitism. Letters to the Editor 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z "Some of the things people say about him – that he's a Muslim imam from Kenya who came to subvert American democracy and capitalism – are pretty amazing." John Legend and the Roots: hearts, minds and soul 2010-10-19T21:00:00Z They were a requiem for all of the failed promises of both communism and capitalism, a danse macabre on the grave of the 20th century. The Life’s Work of Photography’s Great Trickster, and Ukraine’s Greatest Artist 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z As Netflix's runaway fall hit, "Squid Game" hasn't just entertained, but has prompted audiences to reflect on its themes of the corrosive violence and dehumanization of predatory capitalism. “Squid Game” missed an opportunity to show capitalism & patriarchy are one 2021-10-10T04:00:00Z He was also a radical thinker whose family gatherings often descended into robust debate regarding the crisis of capitalism. Bob Cuff obituary 2010-04-14T17:37:00Z Mostly this is the inevitable logic of capitalism at work, that revolutionary force under which “all that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned.” Donald Trump, America’s isolation and the World Cup: There’s no stopping Big Soccer 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z Both Mao and Žižek’s criticisms of Buddhism are rooted in Marx’s well-known quip that religion is “the opium of the people,” an intoxicant that keeps workers from seeing how capitalism exploits their labor. Gentrifying the dharma: How the 1% is hijacking mindfulness 2014-03-05T15:29:00Z It’s a Tanner, but a rather retrograde one that clumsily reinforces a cherished bromide of Darwinian capitalism: that the poor are happy with their lot — rich in spirit if not rich in fact. ‘200 Years of African American Art’ at Philadelphia Museum of Art 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z As David Kotz and Karen Pfeifer of Northampton, MA noted, “Nine to Five” is both “in sync with the current critique of capitalism” and “realistic about the limits of reform of capitalism.” Punching the Clock (and the Boss) With Dolly, Lily and Jane 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z The more the culture of corporate capitalism dominates the planet, the more urgent becomes the question of what happens to traditional, local cultures. Art Review: Rubin Museum Show of Contemporary Tibetans 2010-08-19T21:54:00Z The intelligence of those comics matches their anger, which is necessary, because capitalism co-opts its critics as effortlessly as it creates markets. Bill Hicks, Revived on Video to Jar Viewers Out of Apathy 2015-04-26T04:00:00Z As capitalism changed so did the cartel corporations, adapting to the new brutalities of the market, the more brazen ruthlessness of laissez-faire, outsourcing and profit at all costs. Mexico: How arrest of the last don heralds ruthless new drugs era 2014-10-04T04:00:00Z He was also one of the great evildoers of the age, the symbol of everything that people believed was wrong with American capitalism. Ad absurdum and the conquest of cool: Canned flattery for corporate America 2013-12-22T12:00:00Z This is a man for whom capitalism and Christianity have been conflated into a single ideology of achievement. Theater Review: ‘Grace,’ With Paul Rudd and Michael Shannon, at Cort Theater 2012-10-05T02:00:00Z China has adopted a mixture of state capitalism and authoritarianism, and democratisation has failed in Russia and most of the Middle East. Page turners 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z Winning the Booker prize almost 40 years ago for The Siege of Krishnapur, JG Farrell used his acceptance speech to denounce capitalism, specifically in the form of the prize's sugar-trade sponsors. Found: JG Farrell a worthy winner for the Lost Booker 2010-05-19T19:37:00Z Endorsements of corporate capitalism are woven into the very fabric of this American life. The Licentious Life and Times of Jann Wenner 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z The novel has been compared to “The Handmaid’s Tale,” but where Margaret Atwood’s classic focuses on procreation, Holmqvist’s novel feels broader, holding both capitalism and traditional gender roles under a harsh light. Best new science fiction for summer 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z It's a sweeping and heartfelt tale of divided loyalties and reversion to type, in a world where the complacent ideas of globalised capitalism were shattered by 9/11. The Reluctant Fundamentalist – review 2012-08-29T12:02:00Z “In communism, man exploits man. But with capitalism, it’s the other way around.” Mark Russell, Piano-Playing Political Satirist, Dies at 90 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z Not products that were adequate or sufficient or OK; not products a little bit better than capitalism's. Red star rising 2010-08-06T23:04:00Z He details a change many of us living in China have sensed and described but not so extensively documented: The country is gradually shifting away from capitalism and becoming more of a managed economy again. New & Noteworthy Visual Books, From ‘Get Out’ to Richard Avedon 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z A flurry of press releases and TV appearances promoted the venture of Mayor Bloomberg 21st century capitalism. Four ways your privacy is being invaded 2012-09-11T13:44:00Z But Riley finds terminology like that to be inherently deadening: “I’ve used the word ‘capitalism’ only once in my whole career, in my art, and ‘Communism’ only once. The Many Voices of Boots Riley 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z Here, Jitpleecheep investigates beautiful but creepy Chinese twins Lilly and Polly Yip, who have taken capitalism to the extreme by trading in human organs, whether or not the donors are willing to part with them. Laura Wilson's crime fiction roundup – reviews 2012-11-23T08:00:02Z It also showcases people and entities who have deployed images with surgical expertise: Marilyn Monroe, Ronald Reagan, Kim Kardashian, Google and, of course, the algorithmically driven “surveillance” capitalism referred to by Zuboff. 4 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z The term shock doctrine, also called disaster capitalism, was coined and researched by Naomi Klein in her 2007 book The Shock Doctrine. What do the Grenfell Tower fire and Hurricane Katrina have in common? Disaster capitalism 2017-07-01T04:00:00Z Like many Britons, Mantel vividly recalls how she felt about Thatcher and her policy of completely deregulated capitalism. Hilary Mantel is not a terrorist: Debunking the ludicrous right-wing backlash to her short story 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z In “Severance,” Shen Fever is wiping out the world’s population, but the hungers of capitalism, and the fracturing of globalization, is what has insured social death. More Books We Loved in 2018 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z There has probably always been some mixture of love and economic considerations in the marriage pact, but by the time industrial capitalism took off, the emphasis on romantic love was firmly in place. Love in the time of layoffs 2012-08-03T20:12:00Z And most of its work appears to be in calculated defiance not of capitalism, exactly, but of good taste. Living With Freaky Furniture 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z Ms. Marmo’s life and political and intellectual interests — Neapolitan organized crime, the history of capitalism, Italian social classes and industrialization in the Italian south — are also themes at the heart of the Naples novels. Who Is Elena Ferrante? An Educated Guess Causes a Stir 2016-03-13T05:00:00Z But Dumont's film thoughtfully criticizes the media industry while also deftly addressing issues of capitalism, privacy, EU sovereignty, immigrants, and much more. "France" director Bruno Dumont on Léa Seydoux, digital media and how the "fake can generate truth" 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z Mr. Graeber is a professor at the London School of Economics and a member of the Industrial Workers of the World who believes that both the nation-state and capitalism need to be replaced entirely. Peter Thiel and David Graeber Debate Technology’s Future 2014-09-21T04:00:00Z So to believe in Lamar is to believe in someone who believes in God and capitalism, but presumably in that order. The sound and the fury of Kendrick Lamar at the Kennedy Center 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z To me, sports drinks are one of capitalism's purest commodities, rebranding sugar water – or latent energy in a can – and selling it to us as our own potential. Superhuman: are we the greatest design project of the century? 2012-07-17T12:38:33Z The result is a nuanced tale that touches on loneliness, capitalism and a dying way of life. How ‘Honeyland’ Became an Oscar Game Changer 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z Where, at the same time, legislation struggles to keep pace with technological change; capitalism and consumerism destroy even as they enrich; and nationalism, racism and xenophobia poison the public discourse, threatening disaster. How Modernity Came to Europe 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z If that's not capitalism successfully at work, then I don't know what is. Why "The Biggest Loser" is the most American show 2010-05-25T19:01:00Z It’s a stinging indictment of what it’s become fashionable to call “late capitalism,” as if anyone had an idea of its endpoint. She Dropped Everything to Meet the K-Pop Star of Her Fantasies 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z He dislikes his agency’s penchant for brutality, torture and summary execution, imagines a professionalized police force, and defies the official edict that murder is a crime of capitalism, by definition unknown in the worker’s paradise. Putin hates this film: KGB agent seeks redemption in “Child 44,” Tom Hardy’s murky Soviet-era thriller 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z Emotional fulfillment is the dream of consumer capitalism: What if our toys loved us back? When the Movies Pictured A.I., They Imagined the Wrong Disaster 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z “Unfettered, unregulated capitalism does what it’s designed to do,” he explains. Lessons of "Generation Wealth": In an age of excess, women lose 2018-07-22T04:00:00Z “Choice serves as the central totem of consumer capitalism, and those who present choices to us appear as handmaidens to our own freedom,” he writes. A New Theory of Distraction 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z While Shakespeare did own land, much of the play is fiction, with the Marxist Bond making a point about art versus capitalism. This week's new theatre and dance 2012-02-11T00:05:00Z Sovremennik seems to promise something more hopeful than either gimcrack Muscovite capitalism or equally ludicrous Soviet socialism. Sovremennik and the gates of hell 2011-01-04T21:31:00Z Illuminating white-collar wage slavery with the ruthlessness of fluorescent tubes, the sitcom is a satire of life under capitalism that captures its texture: that of factory-farmed gruel. My Favorite TV Shows of 2018 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z And Riley’s purpose, by proxy of “Sorry to Bother You,” is to confront capitalism. Boots Riley’s career of confronting capitalism finally hits the big screen with ‘Sorry to Bother You’ 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z Moore works hard to drive home the point that the story of Flint is not an isolated incident or a tragic accident, but proof of the triumph of corporate capitalism over democratic ideals. Michael Moore’s terrifying “Fahrenheit 11/9″: Trump is the symptom, not the disease 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z After the motion picture took home the Oscar for best picture in 2020, a slew of shows and movies released in the U.S. thereafter began to take its own shots at capitalism. From "Parasite" to "Squid Game," America of course exploited South Korea's anti-capitalist content 2023-08-28T04:00:00Z “Prison is what lies behind the mirror of consumer capitalism, the unseen consequence of telling everyone that they can have whatever they want.” A Filmmaker Put Away for Tax Fraud Takes Us Inside a British Prison 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z And that was a threat to what Putin was trying to do, which is a kind of crony capitalism inside Russia. Alex Gibney on "Citizen K": Real-life thriller of an oligarch who turned against Vladimir Putin 2020-01-18T05:00:00Z Donald is perpetually unemployed, but not because of the structural deformities of capitalism. The Book That Exposed the Cynical Politics of Donald Duck 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z But this is not how Kickstarter has ever worked, nor the movie industry, and thus seems to be more a criticism of capitalism than Braff himself. Stop blaming Zach Braff for 'ruining' Kickstarter and indie art 2013-05-09T16:30:00Z The Wisconsin Idea, as it became known, was a pragmatic philosophy, wary of revolution but also deeply suspicious of laissez-faire capitalism. How Conservatives Bet Big on Wisconsin and Won 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z He concluded by saying that this disaster capitalism is now taking place in front of our eyes and we need to wake up to it before it is too late. George Monbiot comes out fighting on 'Left Hook' tour 2011-02-17T14:35:04Z Going by the measure of the capitalism of the 30s, which is what the Soviet Union had first set out to beat in terms of living standards, Soviet life was now spectacularly prosperous. Red star rising 2010-08-06T23:04:00Z It’s no spoiler to say that art wins over capitalism, the phoned-in romantic subplot is resolved and everyone’s happy in the end. ‘Free Guy’ Review: Don’t Hate the Player 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z But with the rise of capitalism and Calvinism in the 16th century, he changed his mind and decided it was the wealthy he favored. How Should 21st-Century Readers Approach the Bible? 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z In her ambitious and consequential analysis, Klein argues there is still time to avoid catastrophe, but not within the current rules of capitalism. 100 Notable Books of 2014 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z For an object that is supposed to encapsulate endgame capitalism, sneakers can still get way funkier. After the Satan Shoes, Building a Sneaker Empire (Not Evil) 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z Is the meaning of life spirituality, or is it capitalism? 'I'd Like to Buy the World a Coke' and the end of Mad Men 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z Here he stretches his voice into a stream-of-consciousness attack on capitalism, imperialism and white supremacy. Perspective | 2017 was the greatest year in DMV rap history. These 25 songs prove it. 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z That’s why, just inside the door, is a section called the Marketplace, which stocks local designers, a combination of capitalism and charity. Critical Shopper: Shopping at Space Ninety 8, the Urban Outfitters Concept Store in Williamsburg 2014-04-09T21:00:29Z "The Brain Center at Whipple's" confronts the excesses of capitalism and its disempowerment of the working class through the stories of factory workers and one particularly greedy businessman. Jordan Peele's "Twilight Zone" in the Trump era 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z The surveillance society and surveillance capitalism continue to gain power. "I don't want to be L. Ron Hubbard": Andy Weir on writing escapism & new book "Project Hail Mary" 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z On this point, he and capitalism were in complete agreement: You’re always selling something, be it a revolution or a pair of sneakers. Hollywood Came to China; It Was Epic. 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z Freshly baked shortbread mixed with a little bit of capitalism? Move aside, Thin Mints: There's a new Girl Scout cookie in town 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z Why discard the phrase “newly free societies”? It often refers to countries that were once communist and are thought to be in transition to democratic capitalism. What Trained Bears Can Teach Us About Formerly Authoritarian Countries 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z But, as “Siren Song” can’t dispute, technology and global capitalism have just about killed the music industry, and youthful fervor for the perfect song won’t save it. Seymour Stein’s “Siren Song” Recounts a Career Co-Starring Madonna, the Ramones, Talking Heads, and the Smiths 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z America’s rapid descent into impoverished nation status is the inevitable result of unchecked corporate capitalism. Global rankings study: America in warp-speed decline 2014-04-09T12:15:00Z All he tells us he learned is that “every bicycle looked the same,” and central planning restricted choice, and capitalism and the marketplace would free the Chinese “to dream and risk.” Revisiting George W. Bush’s Memoir “A Charge to Keep” 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, the National Theatre is preparing to stage three very different musicals in coming months tackling themes of homelessness, deprivation and the nature of capitalism. Musicals hit a deeper note as directors bring serious themes to the stage 2013-04-13T14:47:07Z The portrait of rancid capitalism, detailed in the Hubbards’ reputation for cheating in business, prefigures the shoddy tossing aside of Willy Loman by his company in “Salesman.” Marg Helgenberger and company give Lillian Hellman her due in ‘The Little Foxes’ 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z To most regular people in most parts of the world, the thesis that unfettered capitalism is unstable, empowers predatory behavior and worsens inequality is not merely uncontroversial but empirically obvious. Hillary’s predicament and the history of capitalism: Former Monty Python member explains it all 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z And people said, "If this is capitalism, I don't want to have anything to do with it." Alex Gibney on "Citizen K": Real-life thriller of an oligarch who turned against Vladimir Putin 2020-01-18T05:00:00Z There are those who insist that “Wolf” is a ferocious indictment of the money culture, or at least of the shallow scammers who treat the serious business of capitalism like a casino. What I Learned About Democracy From the Movies 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z While it is very, very easy this time of year to become cynical about "rainbow capitalism" and corporate allyship, it is noteworthy when companies change their policies and behaviors surrounding the queer community publicly. “Bigotry was the blue plate special”: How Cracker Barrel went from anti-gay to angering the GOP 2023-06-12T04:00:00Z But Hytner is also at pains to remind us that Timon's ruination is part of a larger crisis in capitalism and, utilising the play's Athenian background, shows angry crowds occupying the squares and streets. Timon of Athens - Review 2012-07-18T00:23:36Z It also fascinates us for occupying the alchemical moment in England when the High Middle Ages was transforming into the Renaissance, papal dominance was giving way to Protestant independence, and feudalism was lurching toward capitalism. Obsessed with Anne Boleyn 2012-06-18T22:01:00Z Academics have tried painting the film as a reaction to everything from Watergate and Vietnam to capitalism. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: No 14 best horror film of all time 2010-10-22T10:41:00Z Mr. Hicks reserved his greatest rage for capitalism, the government and musicians; issues of race, gender and sexual orientation didn’t animate him, except when using them to beef up his honest-tough-guy credibility. Bill Hicks, Revived on Video to Jar Viewers Out of Apathy 2015-04-26T04:00:00Z That explanation shows how even when the new art puts NFT-ness on the table, in all its social and economic complexity, it can’t escape the rapacious capitalism that has come to be at its heart. One Year After Beeple, the NFT Has Changed Artists. Has It Changed Art? 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z Capitalism is, if you like, a family, with a variety of possibilities, from the state-directed capitalism of France to the free-market of America. From Marx to the Milibands 2011-01-16T00:04:08Z But we have also learned that these experiences can often also tell us something authentic, and occasionally meaningful, about how people interact, think, and feel in late capitalism. The Profound Silence of Kendall Jenner 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z I learned the problem with capitalism, the power of unions, what systemic racism is and how it affects me. Quitting Twitter is easy — changing ourselves is harder 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z Over the next sixteen years, the Arcades Project telescoped into an expansive work about capitalism, European history, and the forces of urban life. Hannah Arendt was right: Walter Benjamin is “sui generis” 2014-03-19T11:50:00Z The United States already treated its minorities well enough, he said, by inviting them to share in its core values: capitalism, property rights, and freedom. The Sad Attempt to Make Trumpism Cool 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z “The Apprentice” embodied the aspirational ideal of American capitalism, promoting the suggestion that by employing original thinking, strategy, leadership and hustle, anyone can reap the business world’s rewards. Under the “circle of doom”: Fox News gives us the season finale of its Trump boosting coverage 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z It wasn't ideal, but it was, shall we say, capitalism with a human face. From Marx to the Milibands 2011-01-16T00:04:08Z Political conservatives don’t care much for public subsidies for green industries and jobs, something GOP candidate Mitt Romney decries as government sticking its nose into venture capitalism. ‘Girls’ still racist 2012-06-22T16:56:00Z “The way that capitalism is structured is not made for small businesses to win,” Mr. Harris said. Maurice Harris Is a Superstar. Can He Bend Capitalism to His Talents? 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z The book’s university setting is a shrine to end-stage capitalism, in which corporate interests hold hostage the last valiant resisters. “The Shakespeare Requirement” Is a Sad-Professor Satire That Burns with Moral Anger 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z Nobody wants to be an adult anymore, and every so often someone writes an article blaming Hollywood, attachment parenting, global capitalism or the welfare state for this catastrophe. ‘Why Grow Up?’ by Susan Neiman 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z Xi Jinping, China’s president, seems intent on a model of “Leninist capitalism”, reinforcing the Communist Party’s political grip, while also strengthening the economy with market reforms. Neither a bull nor a bear be 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z Bloom wrote that free-market capitalism and right-wing populism were as destructive of freedoms of inquiry and expression as the countercultural excesses that conservatives made him famous for denouncing. The coddling of the conservative mind 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z “Wealth creation and the concept of capitalism are things that are inherently top-of-mind in America.” Enough Wallowing, Reality TV Is Ready for Entrepreneurship 2011-03-28T01:29:28Z "We wanted to physically show what unfettered, unregulated capitalism did to families, to communities, to the environment," Hedges, 55, said the other day. Author Chris Hedges: 'This is what corporate exploitation does to you' 2012-06-20T22:00:07Z “You need society to go all the way and collapse, and then you change it. You can’t change a machine that is perfect: capitalism. It’s not good, but it’s perfect. It’s working.” How La Haine lit a fire under French society 2020-05-23T04:00:00Z I got capitalism by working when I was very young. Gene Simmons: ‘I’ve never got high or drunk in my life’ 2017-12-23T05:00:00Z They don't want us to meet on the path because they know where we will head next: to the manicured lawns of the wealthy with questions about resources and capitalism. On being Black in Kentucky and Charles Booker's historic run for Senate 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z But much of what I saw this time around looked like plain old disaster capitalism — devastation as a chance for the government to funnel money towards huge corporations and promote a pro-business agenda. Can we build a sustainable Japan? 2013-03-12T18:50:00Z In what ways was The Negro Motorist Green Book an example of African-American entrepreneurship and black capitalism? "You needed the Negro Motorist Green Book more in the North and the West" 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z Chavkin began collaborating with Christian in 2008 when they created a musical called “Mission Drift,” a show about the recession and America’s rapacious brand of capitalism. Heather Christian’s Choral Work Is a Study of Time. Patience, Too. 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z The film also was meant to comment on rapid changes across Eastern Europe: “There is no longer this kind of timeless melancholy anymore, but just really fast capitalism.” Meet the star of art-house favorite ‘White God.’ He’s a good boy. 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z She was, she writes, “grieving under capitalism” for the years with her father that were lost because he could not afford basic health care. A Transcendent Memoir About Family, Class and the Contours of Loss 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z Clearly, problems with wealth inequality and the deadly, exploitative perils of capitalism are by no means limited to Korea. "Squid Game" Season 2 could change the world: "Do we really have to live in a world like this?" 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z Iyer’s teenagers are recognizable, painfully so: They worry about modern plagues like school shootings, natural disasters and the rot of late capitalism. If Nietzsche Were in High School 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z Marx, who forecast that capitalism would be superseded by socialism, spent the first 17 years of his life in Trier. Marx birthplace cashes in on 0 euro notes for anniversary 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z One hundred and thirty million people, moving between work and family, stoking the engines that drive the machinery of worldwide consumer capitalism. | 'Last Train Home': A Family Caught in the Wheels of China?s Industrial Locomotive 2010-09-02T20:33:00Z It's a remarkable story, of infant limousine tours round Czechoslovakia, watching Alexander Nevsky at the Unity Theatre while his classmates queued to see Bambi, and arguments over breakfast about bureaucratic capitalism. Alexei Sayle: How?Stalin stole my?childhood 2011-08-11T20:00:02Z The place of Black workers in the American economy is surely part of the racial story, and it’s notable that the word “capitalism” doesn’t appear in Wilkerson’s book. What Do America’s Racial Problems Have in Common With India and Nazi Germany? 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z His major lines of inquiry included the failures of socialism in America, the exhaustion of modern culture and the transformation of capitalism from an industrial-based system to one built on consumerism. Daniel Bell, Ardent Appraiser of Politics, Economics and Culture, Dies at 91 2011-01-26T16:05:52Z This revelation triggers a broader — and very basic — analysis of the modern history of American capitalism, weaving archival footage of Disneyland’s humbler beginnings with onscreen interviews that Abigail Disney conducted with economists and historians. ‘The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales’ Review: A Spotlight on Income Inequality 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z Birbiglia reread George Orwell’s “Animal Farm” while researching the script and wrote a phrase on his wall for inspiration: “Art is socialism but life is capitalism.” When ‘Saturday Night Live’ takes your comedy partner, how do you feel? 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z The right-wing is tied together by Republican politics, god, Christianity, capitalism, and white supremacy. W. Kamau Bell on what unifies the right: "Christianity, capitalism and white supremacy" 2019-06-11T04:00:00Z The Ritual Slaughter of Gorge Mastromas is a dark morality tale about "capitalism, greed and individualism", said Featherstone, who will direct. Iron Lady writer to make her debut at Royal Court theatre 2013-07-08T15:21:15Z Marx’s problem with living under capitalism is not, as some might understand Frase to be saying, too much work. Karl Marx and the semantics of a “post-work left” 2013-03-02T15:00:00Z But it’s a cartoonishly negative and over-theorized portrait that bears little or no resemblance to the complex realities of California, capitalism or the world. Can One City Be a Microcosm of Everything That’s Wrong? 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z Seriously, Mondelēz is the evil face of self-serving capitalism writ large. We do mind the gap! Who has cut down Toblerone’s triangles? 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z Did Mr McKay think his movie was a hard-hitting satire on capitalism? Film review: The Other Guys 2010-09-16T21:43:00Z Demonstrators angry at the West German government and what were seen as the depredations of capitalism hit the streets. ‘Suspiria’ Then and Now: Finding Darkness in an All-Female World 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z LP: We also hear that deregulation and downsizing government is somehow supposed to make capitalism work better for all of us. Hip-Hop foodies 2012-06-27T13:46:00Z It may be that the crisis in capitalism –- a system with which unions have a fraught but also symbiotic relationship – means unions can’t operate the way they used to. Can unions save the creative class? 2013-03-18T16:25:00Z “Somehow capitalism aids creativity and aids new voices.” As Bollywood Evolves, Women Find Deeper Roles 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z An exile from East who settled in the west as a boy, he created imagery that was implicitly critical of both communism and capitalism. Sigmar Polke obituary 2010-06-14T17:40:00Z She said she was not sure if she will sell any more, though, especially since she began her project as a critique of consumer capitalism, not as an application to participate in it. The Champion Logo, in the Hands of Fashion’s Provocateurs, Is Reborn 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z Her essay, “Woman and Her Mind: The Story of Daily Life,” explored how contemporary culture — capitalism and the patriarchy, mostly — alienated women from themselves. Meredith Tax, Feminist Author, Historian and Activist, Dies at 80 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z This economic shift led to the privatization of corporations with minimal market competition, he said, which has made some citizens question capitalism on occasion. Ukrainian professor recalls country's Independence Day in light of war: 'Ukraine will win' 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z Is that basic business savvy or corrupt capitalism? Is Victoria’s Secret targeting teens? 2013-03-27T00:00:00Z It’s a late stage capitalism horror story with all the elements of a classic tale of suspense. "Parasite's" Bong Joon-ho: "Voyeurism is an essential part of cinema" 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z Cucinelli, 65, told his guests the restoration was part of his philosophy of “humanistic capitalism”, which involves paying workers above the market average, providing a decent work environment and banning email outside office hours. Italian designer Cucinelli makes a medieval fashion statement 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z Attia’s curatorial statement notes that today’s “profusion of sprawling, monumental exhibitions” mirrors “the material excesses” of global capitalism, and asks: “So why add yet another exhibition to this?” Berlin Biennale Wrestles With Big Issues (and Itself) 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z Feminist scholars have shown that the desire to "gawk" at starving bodies reflects the tensions and anxieties at stake in capitalism and patriarchy. "The Wonder": Netflix’s story of "fasting girls" shows us starving bodies remain a public spectacle 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z Sadly, the nonstop revolution of global capitalism put an end to all that. Art Review: To See a Universe in the Tiny Details of Chinese Artifacts, Boxes to Birds 2010-12-31T23:22:04Z And we're going to keep facing the same issues "until we smash capitalism," jokes Carter. "Smash capitalism" to "release your job," what "Downton Abbey" & Beyoncé can teach us about progress 2022-06-28T04:00:00Z But, Professor Campbell conceded, online narcissism is a logical outgrowth of DIY capitalism. Of Myself I Sing 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z Self-defined public female nudity is a challenge to capitalism and its uses of women as products, props, assets and distributable resources. 6 reasons female nudity can be powerful 2014-01-22T19:54:00Z “There is no imperative in capitalism, there is no imperative in the business for there to be the kind of consolidation that we already have,” he said. Perspective | Penguin Random House is buying Simon & Schuster. That’s bad for readers. 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z This potentially unsettling blend of capitalism and Christianity is on full display in “The Righteous Gemstones,” as well. What the megachurch tells us about evangelicals in HBO's "The Righteous Gemstones" 2019-09-01T04:00:00Z This excerpt is the crux of the book: Trump hates himself; he hates himself because his father treated him as a vector on the grid of capitalism. Donald Trump’s father is the root of his rage 2018-10-06T04:00:00Z However – until recently, at least – the Somerset park has remained fenced off and ghoulishly abandoned, a decayed sarcophagus for the ills of unchecked capitalism. Mr Blobby does America: a beginner's guide for all his new Stateside fans 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z As such, the era of Alien has precisely mirrored the age of modern capitalism. Alien: Covenant – why Ridley Scott's facehuggers and chestbursters will never die 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z His career has been a splendid enactment of the cultural contradictions of capitalism, and at the same time a series of deeply personal meditations on love, loss and imagination. Review: In ‘Ready Player One,’ Spielberg Plays the Nostalgia Game 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z Other scholars had weighed in since Wilentz — notably a group of Civil War historians who echoed his concerns about the description of Lincoln’s views and disputed another essay’s linkage of slavery with capitalism. How the 1619 Project took over 2020 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z But mostly, it's each man for himself – everybody's too busy and confused trying to comply with capitalism to try outsmarting it. The Little House books as feminist classics 2012-12-28T22:55:10Z She quoted Fredric Jameson’s dictum that “it is easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism.” Alexandra Kleeman Finds Reality All Too Surreal 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z The result is a visual treatise on income inequality, global capitalism and the digital world built on shared fashion references. Tech Bro Uniform Meets Margaret Thatcher. Disruption Ensues. 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z It's therefore a mistake to believe that the rise of the Bric countries is simply the same thing as the generalisation of western capitalism. From Marx to the Milibands 2011-01-16T00:04:08Z Others are lured in through Instagram, where he posts heady photo carousels on topics like “the story of the spiritualization of capitalism.” A Pop Star Becomes a Guru 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z We saw some cold-hearted capitalism when Roger had his heart attack and he focused on how it would affect their business. Mad Men: season one, episode 11 2010-06-04T20:40:00Z In a raw kind of capitalism there tend to be unstable events that wipe away the middle and tend to separate people into rich and poor. Jaron Lanier: The Internet destroyed the middle class 2013-05-12T16:00:00Z He added that Suh “is really focusing on the destructive force of capitalism, how it disrupts and destroys families.” Lloyd Suh’s Plays About the Past Speak Directly to Our Present 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z Tilly’s basic answer is the rise of capitalism and the growing administrative capacity of the British state. Why conservatives hate college 2013-03-31T22:00:00Z To call someone a Socialist is such a bad rap because of the total victory capitalism won. Karl Taro Greenfeld on the fiction, grim reality in 'The Subprimes' 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z And with good reason – it’s a terrifically tense thriller with much to say about inequality and capitalism’s clammy hold over society. Cannes 2019: the winner of the Palme d'Or to be announced – live 2019-05-25T04:00:00Z “The meeting at Trump Tower is an example of the crude form of capitalism that ultimately triumphed in Russia. Now business is both goal and tool, inducement for coöperation and its reward.” Sunday Reading: Spycraft 2019-01-20T05:00:00Z Assembling a story that’s equal parts astonishing and bamboozling, Baird and his screenwriter, Noah Pink, pit communism against capitalism and individual passion against corporate greed. ‘Tetris’ Review: Falling Blocks and Rising Freedom 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z By swiftly moving from city to city and between moments that portray our politics in action, "American Selfie" becomes a depiction of capitalism strangling democracy. Alexandra Pelosi's unfiltered "American Selfie" gives a complex picture of how we look to each other 2020-10-24T04:00:00Z That's not to say this performance lecture about capitalism and its constraints isn't playful – it culminates in a tongue-in-cheek suggestion that eBay could help solve the arts funding crisis. The great comedy ambush 2013-01-09T19:00:02Z It’s as though career success is a capitulation to capitalism, hence a kind of failure — hence this book must hate itself. For 3 Poets Who Embrace Excess, the Mess Is the Message 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z She also wields her power by spearheading a genteel protest to raise awareness of the capitalism's continued reliance on slave labor, one clumsily realized subplot among several. A less sexy "Sanditon" doesn't evolve the plot, but so what? That's not why people watch 2022-03-20T04:00:00Z There’s something witty about them, which fits the plays that we are doing this season, all of which are critiques on capitalism, on American society. Making Manhood in ‘The Hairy Ape’ 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z Chatelain looks at big, systemic issues like nutrition, racism, labor unrest and Black capitalism through the lives of people who often faced difficult choices. Times Critics Discuss 2020 in Books, From ‘Pandemic Blur’ to Favorite Discoveries 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z Then there's Lacebark, the vehicle for Beauman's jaundiced view of global capitalism. Ned Beauman's 'Glow' puts an unconventional spin on a thriller plot 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z The theme lurking throughout “Sorry to Bother You” is voiced at one point as “social capital” versus “capitalism.” The Many Voices of Boots Riley 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z Like so many other recent movies on brands from Blackberry to Beanie Babies, it’s about how low people will sink to make a buck while justifying their misdeeds as the cost of successful capitalism. ‘Pain Hustlers’ Review: Seeking Dr. Feelgood 2023-10-26T04:00:00Z The country witnessed an expansion of an earlier trend from pre-Depression capitalism that operated in a narrow band of faith. Show me the money: La La Land and the loving lap of capitalism 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z But capitalism follows some version of the comedy equation of tragedy plus time when it comes to persuading the masses to forget details like Nazi collaboration. I kicked Mike Lindell's MyPillows out of bed and finally got a good night's sleep 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z In “A Sand Book,” capitalism’s parasitic effect on discourse mirrors its ransacking of the environment; Reines ties cultural and spiritual desiccation to literal desertification. The Apocalyptic Visions of Ariana Reines 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z Joseph Stiglitz: Well, capitalism does have a lot of strengths, including producing things that are very innovative. Hip-Hop foodies 2012-06-27T13:46:00Z Others think none of this is ever enough unless you’re dismantling systems of power and privilege like slavery, capitalism, white supremacy and patriarchy. When the past is present: What slave narratives teach us about our greatest human desire 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z I believe the real gestures are artistic, because the real discussion on queerness is also a discussion about the society we live in, about capitalism, about social justice. How Charli XCX, Caroline Polachek and Christine and the Queens Navigate Pop 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z With pitch-black comedy, “Ornamental,” nimbly translated by Lizzie Davis, channels the ways that egomaniacs in science and art — in any field — rise to the top, up the pyramid of capitalism. The Pill That Makes Life Shine Brighter, Fallout Be Damned 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z This history emphasises that the capitalism upon which Western wealth was built was not particularly laissez-faire. A grand tour 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z It really is an excellent distillation of how predatory capitalism works. The allure of Netflix's brutal "Squid Game" owes a debt to our predatory upbringing 2021-10-02T04:00:00Z We still live in a society of consumerist delusion in which technological innovations numb us to the exploitative nature of capitalism and the disappointing reality of modern living. ‘Choose Facebook, revenge porn, zero hours': what does the Trainspotting speech mean today? 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z While piracy is a frontline in the struggle against capitalism, it is not in and of itself “radical.” Is piracy a radical force? 2012-09-03T14:30:00Z "The refugee crisis is ... the outcome of what late capitalism is producing and what it is bringing to us," Hiwa K. told Reuters TV. From Parthenon of banned books to pipe homes of refugees - documenta 14 kicks off 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z Without constantly destroying old jobs and creating new jobs through technological innovations, capitalism cannot develop. Flickonomics: eight movies that teach us how money works 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z Lacking the Marxian insight that capitalism is inherently volatile and constantly mutating, they never doubted that the deregulated finance-capitalism that developed in the US towards the end of the past century would last. Ralph Miliband and sons 2010-09-06T07:00:00Z Bradbury broke through in 1950 with "The Martian Chronicles," a series of intertwined stories that satirized capitalism, racism and superpower tensions as it portrayed Earth colonizers destroying an idyllic Martian civilization. Ray Bradbury, author of 'Fahrenheit 451,' dies 2012-06-06T15:02:47Z The Russian situation was utterly different, and so the Bolsheviks had been obliged to operate a socialism which was doing capitalism's job for it. Red star rising 2010-08-06T23:04:00Z Have you long worried that your station was undermining capitalism through its broadcasts of the Ring Cycle? NPR Listeners May Finally Be Protected from Opera Bias 2011-10-20T14:24:20Z Zuboff, a Harvard Business School professor emerita, argues that “surveillance capitalism,” in which secretive tech companies collect and leverage our personal data and experiences, is a dangerous development. New in Paperback: ‘On Desperate Ground’ and ‘The Paper Wasp’ 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z Here now is her newest, “Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets,” a sprawling examination of life in Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the rise of a feral brand of capitalism. Review: In ‘Secondhand Time,’ Voices From a Lost Russia 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z Human-interest stories about the beauty of some person standing up to the punishments of late capitalism are regular features in the news, too. The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z “Toni Erdmann” sets its critical sights not only on the odd folkways of the executive class, but also on German arrogance within the European Union and the casual cruelty of international capitalism. Review: In ‘Toni Erdmann,’ Dad’s a Prankster Trying to Jolt His Conformist Daughter 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z After a lifetime waging battles against American racism and capitalism — in song and deed — Jackson said he’d had enough, and planned to relocate full time to France. Brian Jackson, a Key Gil Scott-Heron Collaborator, Reintroduces Himself 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z As capitalism returns to Detroit’s downtown in all its feverish forms, you can see the city materialize before your eyes. Detroit: The Most Exciting City in America? 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z History would position Republican ideals and American capitalism in a more favorable light. Viral rewind: Stephen Colbert called out Texas Board of Education for refusing to turn the page on textbook mayhem 2015-06-06T04:00:00Z "How do you judge how well a book based on a fake animal in a car insurance ad is going to do?" he marvels, and then delivers his version of an inescapable truth about capitalism. Why celebrity memoirs rule publishing 2010-12-13T07:59:00Z From Reagan's much more successful political formula, Murdoch borrowed shrill anti-communism, a sometimes glib optimism about capitalism and a belief in America's right to world supremacy. Murdoch's Politics: How One Man's Thirst for Wealth and Power Shapes Our World by David McKnight – review 2013-02-20T07:01:01Z The crisis of capitalism is five years old, yet it took until Tuesday's Guardian for its prime cause to emerge. In praise of … getting your eight hours 2013-04-02T21:12:53Z He sees the luxury spa as a product of disaster capitalism, “where these infrastructures of care are used to make a profit off of a crisis.” Cautionary Climate Tales That Give People Pause When They Press Play 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z A relationship to capitalism cannot be a disqualification for American activism or hardly anything would happen at all. Hollywood Uses the Very Women It Exploited to Change the Subject 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z Photograph: Virginia Sherwood It’s a message that seems particularly well-timed, emerging just as Jeremy Corbyn and Bernie Sanders are attracting followings on both sides of the Atlantic for their critiques of capitalism. Mr Robot: 'Edward Snowden is a huge fan of our show' 2015-10-17T04:00:00Z They liken the winner-takes-all competition of capitalism or elections or football to combat. The war on women is not a war at all: It’s a one-sided assault by sad, insecure little men 2015-10-31T04:00:00Z For the American premiere of “The Low Road,” a satire of unbounded self-interest and pitiless capitalism, the playwright Bruce Norris realized he needed to change the last name of his scurrilous 18th-century protagonist, Jim Trumpett. A Political Satire on Stage, and Not About Trump 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z Rather as Forbes did with Jenner, Generation Wealth persistently overlaps capitalism and celebrity, whether as fully realised achievements or gutter-level ambitions. Generation Wealth: how the doc fails to capture Trump's America 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z A fervent admirer of Ronald Reagan, Mr. Abramoff was an outspoken believer in unregulated capitalism and minimal government when he was at Brandeis University. | 'Casino Jack and the United States of Money': Alex Gibney?s Documentary About Jack Abramoff 2010-05-06T22:58:00Z The future for capitalism, he believes, lies in healthcare, education and green industries. Progressive Capitalism by David Sainsbury; The Locust and the Bee by Geoff Mulgan – review 2013-05-04T14:00:04Z ‘Bourgeois democracy is only another name for capitalism,’ he declared. The war that made Orwell 2014-01-11T15:00:00Z The first ever episode of The Simpsons showed a family plunged into poverty by the vagaries of capitalism. Banksy's satire on The Simpsons 2010-10-11T19:00:00Z Instead, of course, capitalism had unfairly shifted the target by doing some growing of its own. Red star rising 2010-08-06T23:04:00Z Maria provides pointers on the basics of capitalism and how it exploits and oppresses the workers. Review: From Chile, ‘Escuela,’ a Drama About Education 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z In my workshop the most popular answer to the second question pertained less to race and more to the effects of digital capitalism: less looking at screens and checking email. Rashaad Newsome Pulls Out All the Stops 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z The Vermont senator discusses capitalism’s negative effects on society. Washington Post hardcover bestsellers 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z The book is, among other things, a sustained critique of capitalism. Kim Stanley Robinson’s Latest Novel Imagines Life in an Underwater New York 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z The maw of late-stage capitalism has swallowed these songs, neutered much of their meaning, and pressed them into service selling products. The Music Itself Is a Form of Protest 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z The pull of capitalism is such that, unless you can plead poverty, the annual round of gift exchanges will go on no matter how much the nation appears to be collapsing around us. How Donald Trump ruined Christmas: I won't celebrate this year, and he's why 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z Equal parts campus novel, buddy comedy and meditation on art-making under late capitalism, the novel is a hugely funny portrait of an egomaniac and his nebbish best friend. Review | Poking fun at the male ego — and academia — in one cheeky little novel 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z His is just one story in an emotionally and politically trenchant chronicle of capitalism, propaganda, conflicting values and labor rights. ‘American Factory’ Review: The New Global Haves and Have-Nots 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z But she feared what more capitalism — and more tourists — would mean for the island. In Cuba, as an uncertain future inches closer, it’s still a step back in time 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z After much nagging, he was sent to LA to meet the band, and no doubt help co-ordinate the downfall of capitalism. How NWA came straight outta Compton and went mainstream 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z One could venture that indeed it was his Riverside anti-Vietnam War speech, or his increasingly trenchant critiques of capitalism, or perhaps his newfound willingness to pronounce the dreaded “S” word – socialism. The “macroethics” of Martin Luther King Jr.: When he spoke out against the Vietnam War even his supporters deserted him — here’s how he endured 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z “The Valley” is a visual contemplation of an animal impulse in the context of late capitalism, activated by the artifices and edifices of the American suburb. Sex and Longing in Larry Sultan’s California Suburbs 2017-04-09T04:00:00Z But it is also about capitalism, and it’s this aspect of the film that haunts me. ‘You’ve Got Mail’ Is Secretly a Tragedy, Too 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z As early capitalism became a force nearly as important to artists as the church, artisans and artists joined guilds, which were less hierarchical than the lodges, and worked in some ways like contemporary unions. Can unions save the creative class? 2013-03-18T16:25:00Z What’s scary about today – a time in which our nerves are again quivering with anxieties about capitalism, despotism and an all-but-inevitable environmental catastrophe – is that we’ve now been shaped by those films’ misanthropy. Magnolia to The Matrix: was 1999 the greatest year in modern cinema? 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z The catalogue is a far more trenchant document, with discussions of Dante and Derrida, an analysis of art, capitalism, utopia and the end of the Cold War, immigration and purgatory, South Africa and apartheid. Wandering from the straight path of clarity, it’s still full of powerful art 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z Banks's protagonist, Alban McGill, struggles to prevent his family's company being taken over by a US giant, occasioning diatribes against American capitalism and American foreign policy that seem straightforwardly authorial. Iain Banks dies aged 59 2013-06-09T17:22:02Z In the age of platform capitalism, where every person on social media is a product, she is queen. Kim Kardashian West at 40: how the queen of social media changed the world 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z Its publicity talks it up as an indictment of new-era capitalism and compares it to Andrzej Wajda's 1976 classic Man of Marble as a critique of a generation. Eastern bloc rocking: is Jesteś Bogiem the 8 Mile of Poland? 2012-10-09T14:28:30Z She rapped about white supremacy, police brutality, globalization, poverty, capitalism — you name it — without the preachy condescension that often plagues her conscious rap contemporaries. Review | At the 9:30 Club, Noname proved she can out-rap most rappers — even when she’s sick 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z "What Deadwood did was to talk about how capitalism started, how civilised society came in and how that brought its own problems." Ian McShane: rogue trader 2013-03-16T08:59:01Z Androids and automation stand in for the calculated way art and commerce are conducted under late capitalism. Philip K. Dick predicted ChatGPT and its grim ramifications 2023-06-10T04:00:00Z This is the future of capitalism and its hollow promise of prosperity on planet Earth, a charnel house of our own making. Review | Hans Haacke makes that banana on the wall look ridiculous 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z Can a future Labour government succeed where past governments have failed and harness capitalism to a vision of social improvement? Ralph Miliband and sons 2010-09-06T07:00:00Z Aquaman symbolizes a bridge to a new ecological world order that is delinked from whiteness, from colonialism and from unregulated capitalism. From "Aquaman" to "Avatar," ocean-centric blockbusters are eroding our terrestrial bias 2023-01-02T05:00:00Z Today it is especially so, because of capitalism and religion. The Mind of Conservatism 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z Two things can help us understand this shift in the meaning of the cephalopod: what we’ve learned about octopuses and squids, and historical shifts in the structure of global capitalism. Put an octopus on it! 2012-07-05T00:00:00Z Filmmaker Michael Moore, the outspoken political activist whose documentary-style movies frequently condemn capitalism, reportedly owns nine different homes — including a $2 million mansion in Torch Lake, Michigan. Michael Moore, movie-making critic of capitalism, has nine homes 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z The economists attribute this to a failure of capitalism, arguing that healthcare and the free market are incompatible. Deaths of despair: why America’s medical industry explains working-class suicides 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z The playwright is like capitalism, Timothy theorizes after a rehearsal has devolved into a Grotowski-informed sobbing session. What do you get when you mash up Shakespeare and sci-fi? ‘Fear.’ 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z To Mr. Szczygiel’s credit, his gaze is just as unsparing once Czechoslovakia splits apart, and the successor Czech Republic eagerly embraces capitalism. Mariusz Szczygiel’s ‘Gottland’ Sees a Surreal Czechoslovakia 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z It's more Karl Marx than Adam Smith, and yet our idea of capitalism is so tied up with our idea of Christianity. Surviving "God Land" in the age of Trump: Lyz Lenz on faith, politics and the Midwest 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z Nonetheless, they relied on Marx’s ideas about class, alienation and capitalism for the tools they needed to interpret and understand contemporary society. ‘Grand Hotel Abyss’: Life among the original anti-consumerists 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z The subject concerns the genetically engineered Orango, half-man, half-ape, who becomes the embodiment of western capitalism at its most bestial, before being captured by the Soviets and put on show to the public. Shostakovitch: Orango; Symphony No 4 – review 2012-07-11T14:46:20Z Q. Some people read the ending of “Mad Men” very cynically, that Don comes up with that Coke ad during his Zen retreat, and capitalism triumphs over everything in the end. Elisabeth Moss on Her Emmy Nomination and How to Follow Success of Peggy Olson 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z You classify Trumpism as "a civil religion deeply connected with Christianity but also influenced by capitalism, regionalism and politics." Surviving "God Land" in the age of Trump: Lyz Lenz on faith, politics and the Midwest 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z The mock-fencing across the windows also sharply underlines a question raised by the exhibit: Is the real museum of capitalism inside the gallery, or outside on the streets of New York? Cheeseburgers, Oil and Minimum Wage: Building a Museum of Capitalism 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z Pope Francis, whose criticisms of unbridled capitalism have prompted some to label him a Marxist, said in an interview published on Sunday that communists had stolen the flag of Christianity. Pope says communists are closet Christians 2014-06-29T04:00:00Z Liang described the endless struggle between peoples enjoined by global capitalism as extremely dangerous. The ruins of empire: Asia's emergence from western imperialism 2012-07-27T07:00:04Z With typical boldness, the season finale of “Billions” pays homage to “The Conversation” by turning Axe Capital, that gleaming beacon of late capitalism run amok, into the ravaged bones and sinew of Harry Caul’s apartment. ‘Billions’ Season 1 Finale Recap: A Wendy, Scorned 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z What I am opposed to is the sort of capitalism that sucks the life out of a whole bunch of the citizenry and then demands that they do better with whatever they have left. ‘Poor people don’t plan long-term. We’ll just get our hearts broken’ 2014-09-21T04:00:00Z Here, where Suprematism meets capitalism, Malevich looks more versatile than ever. Art Review: It All Started With a Simple Square 2011-03-11T00:05:42Z Even for a private company like Theranos, disclosure is the bedrock of American capitalism — the “disinfectant” that allows investors to gauge a company’s prospects. How One Company Scammed Silicon Valley. And How It Got Caught. 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z They get frustrated with the saccharin quality of industrialization, of commercial culture, of the market, of capitalism, of all these things are deemed to compromise the integrity of the self. What binds Palin and Stewart? 2012-07-23T01:00:00Z FDR’s New Deal rejected laissez-faire capitalism and promoted a mixed economy with strong labor unions and safety nets, which helped avert radical movements — particularly from the left. Socialism vs. barbarism: Only social democracy can defeat the right-wing radicalism of Donald Trump 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z It was there that she developed an almost militant faith in capitalism. Three Blockbuster Novels From the 1950s, and Their Remarkable Afterlife 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z In the 1952 novel, the nameless Negro hero wins his briefcase in a night of combat that’s as cruelly and casually absurd as capitalism — and afterward can locate himself only in its gleaming calfskin. | To Have and To Hold 2014-03-06T14:00:39Z Can the flexibility, resourcefulness and decentered organization required by modern capitalism be used to dismantle corporations and the state violence that sustains them? Put an octopus on it! 2012-07-05T00:00:00Z Alongside the horror, the book interweaves a critique of capitalism while evoking “a first-generation immigrant’s nostalgia for New York,” our reviewer writes. Pandemics in the Pages of ‘The Stand,’ ‘Severance’ and More 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z “They really address cyclical nature of capitalism,” he said. Tony Buba: The Bard of Braddock, at Anthology Film Archives 2012-06-01T20:29:57Z And Graeber’s anthropological eye and skepticism about capitalism are useful in questioning some parts of the economy that the West has come to accept as normal. Are More and More People Working Meaningless Jobs? 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z Already hailed as a masterpiece across Europe, “Secondhand Time” is an intimate portrait of a country yearning for meaning after the sudden lurch from Communism to capitalism in the 1990s plunged it into existential crisis. Svetlana Alexievich, Nobel Laureate of Russian Misery, Has an English-Language Milestone 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z But this shoehorns her into the very conventions of capitalism and bourgeois values that she eschewed so aggressively. Vivian Maier and the Problem of Difficult Women 2014-05-10T04:00:00Z The gambit results in a prospectus promising such a high rate of return that Kendall, in a moment of clarity, chuckles, “It’s enough to make you lose your faith in capitalism.” ‘Succession’ Season 4, Episode 6: Cool New Rule 2023-04-30T04:00:00Z Reynolds takes the study of World War I out of the trenches, where it has been mired for nearly a century, and looks at its effects upon nations, democracy, empire, capitalism, civilization and peace. 50 notable works of nonfiction It shows us a capitalism that promises us happiness through rampant consumption. Sorry to Bother You: is this the most shocking anti-capitalist film ever? 2018-08-19T04:00:00Z He knows how capitalism works and knows how to get this country on track. Romney vs. Gingrich is a fight for GOP's direction 2012-01-29T02:23:00Z It was not long ago that it seemed as if the companies of Silicon Valley were poised to renew and reshape American capitalism. The Fate of Most Silicon Valley Drones: ‘Live Work Work Work Die’ 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z But as India globalized, transnational trends and free-market capitalism proliferated, and by the 1990s, there was a growing need to address a then-burgeoning diaspora audience. As Bollywood Evolves, Women Find Deeper Roles 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z “It’s not capitalism failing. It’s capitalism working as it always will,” Loach added. Cannes critics warm to Ken Loach's dig at gig economy 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z The crisis was merely the latest example of the inherent stability of capitalism, a process that, while allowing the economy to benefit from “creative destruction”, causes a lot of collateral damage along the way. What’s the alternative? 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z Mac is the drag queen who rails against capitalism, emphasizing experience over consumption. Taylor Mac defies all comparisons and adjectives, and he wants you to leave his shows exhausted 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z The gleaming, orderly interior of the factory provides another atmospheric contrast between the smoothly administered realm of legal global capitalism and the hellish kingdom of the narcotics trade that is its shadowy twin. ‘Heli’ Paints a Harrowing Picture of Mexico 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z And I can hear the retort: That’s life, that’s capitalism, and get over it because at least it’s not in Qatar. A Microsoft billionaire gives the public a rare view of his art 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z He has offered a trenchant critique of the limits of global capitalism. Kojin Karatani Wins $1 Million Berggruen Prize 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z The play takes its title from a 2010 book by Chris Hedges, a former war correspondent for The New York Times, who in it excoriated the institutions of liberalism for allowing capitalism to run amok. Review: In ‘Death of the Liberal Class,’ a Writer Tones Down His Anger 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z Reynolds’s engaging, clear prose shines a light on difficult and confusing subjects, including anti-blackness and the creation of racial capitalism. Can You Dismantle White Supremacy With Words? 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z How does capitalism sustain itself when more and more of the people cannot afford to buy the things that capitalism offers because they are no longer needed to make those things? Viet Thanh Nguyen on the Democrats' failure and our future 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z It gave us a slick fantasy infused with mysticism, positing that capitalism's toxic corporate system is a massive multiplayer role-playing figment built to enslave us, and that the machinery was built by machines. No one can say if "The Matrix Resurrections" is good or bad. Either way, it makes you think 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z It's prompted hilarious memes, while simultaneously inspiring conversations about capitalism and inequality. Netflix execs and "Squid Game" VIPs are playing from the same out-of-touch handbook 2021-10-24T04:00:00Z Life during the Soviet-era was dominated by staged images of happiness and success, and was contrasted to grim images of capitalism with wars, strikes, homeless people and unemployed workers, among others. Lithuania erects sculpture in honor of JD Salinger 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z Mr. Beckert sees the hand of the state in both the accomplishments and shameful sides of industrial capitalism. ‘Empire of Cotton,’ by Sven Beckert 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z At a slightly lower register, however, Arizona Dream is a lament for the multicultural ideal, for the diversity America might have fostered had an ideology other than that of brutal capitalism been imagined. Existential cowboys: Slow West isn't the first European journey into US darkness 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z Both make the case that the book’s value lies in its critique of capitalism. Nearly a Century Later, We’re Still Reading — and Changing Our Minds About — Gatsby 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z Given the brand’s easy relationship with capitalism, it is no wonder the Ricci family loves to joke about how the bearded patriarch is a dead ringer for Karl Marx. Stefano Ricci, Clothier to the 0.001 Percent 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z This blithe embrace of aspirational consumer capitalism colors the narrative in uneasy ways. Review | Dave Eggers tells the story of the most dangerous cup of coffee in the world 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z Roberto, who is 10 years older, treats her as an intellectual equal, engaging her in philosophical conversations that combine Catholic theology with a critique of capitalism. Review | Elena Ferrante returns with ‘The Lying Life of Adults,’ and fans of the Neapolitan novels will be thrilled 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z It’s a conflict that most professional artists continue to struggle with, successfully or not, under the reign of capitalism, and it’s as acute today as it ever was. Paul Durand-Ruel, the Paris Dealer Who Put Impressionism on the Map 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z With a background in advertorial design, he's a strange blend of hippy capitalism, a man who believes Starbucks is organised vandalism, but unapologetically makes Nike ads to pay the mortgage. Absolute beginners 2011-07-15T23:03:00Z After initially floundering in Congress, the scheme became a choice morsel to be seized in the chaos capitalism typical of the early railroading era. The Utopian Quest to Link the United States and Latin America 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z And to those who read China's and India's embrace of capitalism as a comforting sign of their reconciliation with western ways, he offers a warning. From the Ruins of Empire by Pankaj Mishra – review 2012-07-19T07:00:02Z That leaves us with the most important flavor of seltzer there is: late capitalism. What were we thinking? The worst trends of the decade – ranked! 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z Slotting a thesis about modern capitalism into the picaresque 17th-century adventures of a servant "named after the bush he'd been whelped under" doesn't bespeak subtlety. The Trade Secret by Robert Newman – review 2013-06-07T17:35:01Z The many-headed monster of capitalism realized its core aspects, and consumers skinned it to represent whatever they needed it to be. No one can say if "The Matrix Resurrections" is good or bad. Either way, it makes you think 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z Indeed, liberalism grew out of a response to the upheavals of raw capitalism and revolution. The deep roots of modern resentment 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z Repetition in “Breaking Bad” is not just a stylistic tic, a shortcut to conventional foreshadowing or retrospection, but the marker of a philosophical continuum among all the different lifestyles possible under capitalism. Four years later, “Breaking Bad” remains the boldest indictment of modern American capitalism in TV history 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z Modernity, in the form of capitalism and new ways to sell their catch, threatens this cooperative culture. The Real-Life Story of ‘The Last Whalers’ Reads Like a First-Rate Novel 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z There’s a motel, a pawnshop, liquor and drug stores, a mini-mart, a water treatment plant, some beat-up cars: “the wasteland,” as Stone has described it, “of free-market capitalism.” Review: In ‘Lucia’ at the Met, a Modern Woman Comes Undone 2022-04-24T04:00:00Z They also have a chance to drink where a depressed Karl Marx grabbed a beer while in exile before getting started in his masterpiece in capitalism criticism, “Das Kapital.” ‘London literary pub’ tour brings writers and writing home 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z It was praised as a satire on capitalism. Ian McEwan, Rachel Whiteread and the frozen north 2010-04-16T10:31:00Z Any page might offer a bastardized phrase from Genesis, Shakespeare and Matthew Arnold, while criticizing Christianity, condemning American capitalism and warning of the climate apocalypse. Review | Lawrence Ferlinghetti is about to turn 100, and he hasn’t mellowed. At all. 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z “They symbolize our creative shift from communism to capitalism.” Breathing New Life Into Bulgaria’s Cold War Bunkers 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z Here, philosophies of asceticism live side-by-side with those of raw capitalism. Portraits of Everyday Life in the Indian State of Gujarat 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z The brief window of opportunity that followed communism’s demise soon descended into the dangerous anarchy of unbounded capitalism. Get on one, comrade! The story of Russia’s post-Soviet rave scene 2019-06-07T04:00:00Z But while some embraced the freedoms, which were being enacted against an increasingly violent and rackety background, others noticed that their understanding of the capitalism that was freeing them was sketchy at best. Get on one, comrade! The story of Russia’s post-Soviet rave scene 2019-06-07T04:00:00Z Though it is the monoculture of capitalism, not Asia, that is on display. Crazy Rich Asians is no racial triumph. It's a soulless salute to the 1% 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z Expect a series of wry pieces that examine real and invented side effects of Chinese-style capitalism. Datebook: Zombies of Beijing, Chicano landscapes, fountain sculptures 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z A Harvard University study found 51 percent of 18- to 29-year-old Americans do not support capitalism. Singing the Praises of ‘Big Business’ 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z You write, in the final paragraph, that "the supersession of capitalism still sounds plausible to me". From Marx to the Milibands 2011-01-16T00:04:08Z I worried, that, like an unstoppable plague, the city would be altered by the advances of capitalism. Taking a Toto trip in West Bengal: an electric rickshaw adventure ride 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z Best said she aimed for “a satire of not only capitalism but also of academia.” With Whiskers and Wit, the NY Cat and Dog Film Festivals Return 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z Yet in “Here Comes Trouble” his complaints about life under modern capitalism’s thumb begin at birth. Books of The Times: ?Here Comes Trouble? by Michael Moore - Book Review 2011-09-13T12:00:00Z Invading the church, he warns the fearful citizens that America “has long equated democracy with capitalism and capitalism with God” and that by resisting his unfriendly takeover they are engaged in blasphemy. Then and Now: Hollywood Remakes as Election-Year Players 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z Later, in an essay on scam artists and confidence men, she depicts capitalism as the ultimate scam — one exposed once we reckon with the arbitrariness of success, or even of survival. Jia Tolentino on the ‘Unlivable Hell’ of the Web and Other Millennial Conundrums 2019-08-04T04:00:00Z But in addition to those familiar themes, she also unleashed a high spirited attack on “corporate crony capitalism” and the “permanent political class.” Palin watch continues: No announcement in Iowa speech 2011-09-03T21:38:00Z And conflating the neoliberal capitalism bequeathed by Thatcherism with the authoritarian market state created by Deng out of the ruins of the cultural revolution obscures more than it explains. Strange Rebels: 1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century by Christian Caryl – review 2013-07-25T07:01:00Z At another, she extols the success of democratic capitalism in generating a 30-fold rise in earnings throughout the 20th century. Dambisa Moyo’s Proposals for Saving Democracy 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z At the turn of the century, he abandoned sci-fi entirely, setting the chilly, paranoid novels of his “Bigend” trilogy in a present day thoroughly permeated by globalized capitalism and militarism. William Gibson’s Man-Made Future 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z The specter of Greece’s economic and political failures looms over “Attenberg,” not least in the figure of the dying Spiros, who remarks on his country’s painful transition from an agrarian economy to full-blown capitalism. Athina Rachel Tsangari Directs ?Attenberg? 2012-03-02T19:13:03Z The seductive ease of life under surveillance capitalism has so far stilled the countervailing instinct to defy the bully, to protect the sliver of the self. How Big Tech Built the Iron Cage 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z He wants to distinguish that spirit from the ways in which these same sounds find shape as commodities, as “ads” for capitalism. In “The Haunting of Lin-Manuel Miranda,” Ishmael Reed Revives an Old Debate 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z To say that it puts the prettiest possible face on end-phase capitalism is to respect its game. Rihanna’s “Savage X Fenty Show” Puts a Super-Fun Face on End-Stage Capitalism 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z “If your view of how society functions under capitalism is that it’s a constant crisis, when another crisis happens . . . your outlook then seems very prescient, in a way that’s not really gratifying,” Combs says. D.C. punks Bad Moves expand their sound but keep their focus on ‘Untenable’ 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z “I don’t believe in black capitalism,” Abernathy declared, echoing King’s demands for economic justice. The Surprising History of McDonald’s and the Civil Rights Movement 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z But what drives capitalism is the profit motive. Hip-Hop foodies 2012-06-27T13:46:00Z Under the aegis of capitalism, ownership might be the most powerful intoxicant of all. Art in Review: JULIA JACQUETTE: ?Water, Liquor, Hair? 2011-04-28T20:55:24Z But when the urgency of actual production returned, “it was more like capitalism, money, can we just do this fast? People didn’t understand that they had the quality of someone’s life in their hands.” After a Long, Starring Run, Will Racism at Last Get the Hook? 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z Banksy, who keeps his real name private, has become the most famous street artist in the world by poking fun at the excesses of modern capitalism and lampooning hollow icons, slogans and opinions. Banksy 'snow' pollution mural sold for over $130,000 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z "All of us thought that the crisis of the 1930s was the final crisis of capitalism," he wrote 40 years later. Eric Hobsbawm obituary 2012-10-01T09:59:14Z It was modernity’s fault, capitalism’s fault, Charles Dickens’s fault. Voyages: The World of Charles Dickens, Complete With Pizza Hut 2012-02-07T19:16:01Z Or that virtually the entire field of climatology is perpetrating a “hoax,” as senator James Inhofe claims, in order to undermine capitalism and impose a one-world government. Is aggression genetic? 2012-05-28T22:00:00Z But growth as a goal is always going to be an aspect of capitalism: When you invest capital in something, you’re hoping that you’re going to get paid back more than you put in. Don’t blame the Google bus riders: The company “doesn’t look at the employees as any more human than it does the residents of San Francisco” 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z The Bowl’s organizers also defy the conventional laws of capitalism, even as the business got more complicated in the internet age. The Flea Circus 2018-09-15T04:00:00Z “UFO in Her Eyes” is a political fable in which Mao Zedong’s ideals of enforced collectivization, when applied to Chinese capitalism, wreak havoc once the initial euphoria subsides. Movie Review: ‘UFO in Her Eyes,’ a Chinese Satire, at MoMA 2012-06-12T23:02:22Z Fukuyama worries that the “woker” the left gets on identity issues, the weaker it gets on offering a critique of capitalism. What Is Identity? 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z Smart, stylish and apocalyptic, Zach Blas’s “Contra-Internet” at Art in General uses sculpture and moving images to critique the internet as a tool of capitalism and oppression, and to imagine its messy demise. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z Yet in "Here Comes Trouble" his complaints about life under modern capitalism's thumb begin at birth. Filmmaker Michael Moore's early life 2011-09-16T20:20:05Z Along the way, Ben keeps on keeping on about the evils of capitalism while his children discover themselves and other people, including in a sweet, trailer-park stay where Bo learns how to kiss a girl. Review: Viggo Mortensen Captivates in ‘Captain Fantastic’ 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z Techno-fixes create an illusion of helping the planet when all they do is help capitalism generate more profit, the film argues. Why "Planet of the Humans," Michael Moore’s new film about green energy, is so controversial 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z While he tolerates them throwing firecrackers and food out of the window, he draws the line and starts yelling at them when they pivot to discussing how socialism is preferable to capitalism. The "Whitest Kids U Know" — a cult classic comedy group whose sketches eerily foresaw the Trump era 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z Indeed, neither man is “interested in visitors who might interrogate the hegemonic dogmas of corporate capitalism.” Jon Stewart, capitalist stooge? 2012-07-25T21:00:00Z We are being pushed “toward a society in which capitalism does not function as a means to inclusive economic or political institutions.” How Tech Companies Manipulate Our Personal Data 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z Who would have guessed that it would actually be free-market capitalism that exposed your secret love of extra large leather bondage cuffs to the entire world? Etsy's social media DIY-saster 2011-03-15T18:57:00Z To make his eviscerating critique of capitalism, Harris cherry-picks the history of California in general and Palo Alto in particular. Can One City Be a Microcosm of Everything That’s Wrong? 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z Sandwiched between a poppy soundtrack and J-Lo’s acrobatic poledancing are insights on the romance of friendship, capitalism in America and the potential and pitfalls of female solidarity. How Hustlers shows the importance of female solidarity 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z Shevek travels to rival system Urras, where inhabitants practice a form of state capitalism that is rife with the usual inequities. Why can't sci-fi and fantasy imagine alternatives to capitalism or feudalism? 2022-02-19T05:00:00Z Like the dieter who would rather do anything to lose weight than actually eat less, this business elite would save the world through social impact investing, entrepreneurship, sustainable capitalism, philanthro-capitalism, artificial intelligence, market-driven solutions. Meet the ‘Change Agents’ Who Are Enabling Inequality 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z The nation state is such a cunning instrument in the hands of capitalism now. India's bold, brilliant daughter 2011-01-29T00:06:38Z It often shocks conservatives to be reminded of this, but unions are capitalist institutions, they were founded in the early 19th century pretty much simultaneously with the development of modern capitalism. Can unions save the creative class? 2013-03-18T16:25:00Z “We kind of deny that capitalism is such a big part of our time.” Fall Preview: Bong Joon Ho and ‘Parasite’ are coming for you 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z “It’s capitalism. I paid them all competitive rates.” Escape to Bro-topia 2015-06-06T04:00:00Z Responding to claims that he was hypocritical for being anti-capitalist and a wealthy actor, Baldwin wrote, "No. They just want regulated capitalism." Celebrities come out for Wall Street protest 2011-10-12T20:15:12Z Many American conservatives are sanguine about the idea that under capitalism, “all fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away. … All that is solid melts into air.” The Mind of Conservatism 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z There’s no angry chest-thumping about the ravages of capitalism in “A Thousand and One.” ‘A Thousand and One’ Review: A New York Love Story 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z That filmmakers would have their eye on Wall Street and the morality of unfettered capitalism is hardly a shock. ‘Arbitrage’ and the Rich and Troubled Bad Guy 2012-09-02T07:27:26Z The real problem is that capitalism has become associated with high finance, rather than the heroic entrepreneurship of Thomas Edison, whose inventions still surround us. What’s the alternative? 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z There are no commas in this book, no moments to breathe in the cut-throat world of high finance and late capitalism that it both satirises and gruesomely dramatises. The Cook by Wayne Macauley – review 2012-12-13T08:55:01Z For him, this story of 1820s America is really about the roots of capitalism. Alejandro González Iñárritu: 'When you see The Revenant you will say "Wow"' 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z Just like Crosland, though without his Keynesian grasp of the dangers of recurring boom and bust, New Labour believed capitalism had been tamed. Ralph Miliband and sons 2010-09-06T07:00:00Z “Parasite” is far from a comprehensive or complete vision of South Korean society or even of modern capitalism in its over-all social and cultural sense. How “Parasite” Falls Short of Greatness 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z Ms. Ullens’s death was a sordid end to a life that had seemed like a fairy tale, or at least a fairy tale of the age of global capitalism. Myriam Ullens, Philanthropic Baroness With a Disputed Fortune, Dies at 70 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z Willy isn’t good at his job any more; under the rules of American capitalism, he deserves to be fired. Broadway's Old New Hit: Death of a Salesman 2012-03-27T20:23:55Z The Actors’ Gang is currently populated by conjurers, strongmen, snake charmers, fat ladies and headless wonders associated with a sideshow known as “Captain Greedy’s Carnival” — or, to use its more conventional name: capitalism. Capitalism as a sideshow fleece: That's 'Captain Greedy's Carnival' by the Actors' Gang 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z Photograph: Jorge Silva/Reuters Venezuela's president, Hugo Chávez intends to inject new urgency into his socialist, anti-imperialist revolution because, he says, there is clear evidence that "capitalism is destroying the world". Hugo Ch?vez grants rare interview to western media 2010-06-13T17:09:00Z For America to capitalize off of South Korea's onscreen struggles with capitalism is ironic considering how the U.S. played a role in creating the very economic situation the country finds itself in. From "Parasite" to "Squid Game," America of course exploited South Korea's anti-capitalist content 2023-08-28T04:00:00Z Last year, in the first major written work of his papacy, Francis attacked unfettered capitalism as "a new tyranny", urging global leaders to fight poverty and growing inequality. Pope Francis denounces wealth gap in open-air Seoul mass 2014-08-16T04:00:00Z Wilk’s characters inhabit the end stage of something, whether it’s capitalism or humanity or the earth itself. In Elvia Wilk’s “Oval,” Earth, Capitalism, and the Human Species Sink Toward Doom 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z The development of America and capitalism has interested him particularly since he started making Deadwood in 2004. Ian McShane: rogue trader 2013-03-16T08:59:01Z Brown's character agrees, observing that "if you think about it, socialism is like everybody helping everybody else out, and capitalism is like greed." The "Whitest Kids U Know" — a cult classic comedy group whose sketches eerily foresaw the Trump era 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z Indeed, after unemployment and the activities of investment bankers, the McMansion may be the most despised aspect of capitalism there is. Let them eat McMansions! The 1 percent, income inequality, and new-fashioned American excess 2014-04-13T11:00:00Z Sven Beckert’s “Empire of Cotton: A Global History,” published by Harvard University Press, was cited as “a masterful achievement in the burgeoning field of the study of capitalism.” Globally Minded Books Win Bancroft Prize 2015-03-29T04:00:00Z A musical can’t be expected to save capitalism from its worst excesses, but I’ve seen the way “Hamilton” is able to open hearts and minds. A 'Hamilton' backlash? Why none of that matters with this history-making tour 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z It shows a neat division of labour in the creation of pointless products, with implications that reach way beyond the beauty industry, to capitalism's mindless cycle of production and consumption. Artist of the week 191: Mika Rottenberg 2012-05-24T11:40:15Z The documentation offers a small window into one of late capitalism’s best kept secrets: How these messianic entrepreneurs talk behind closed doors when they fall so far from their ideals. How the Dark Web’s Dread Pirate Roberts Went Down 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z Through some weird blunder of capitalism, the theater chains have built a massive infrastructure and consumer culture for what is essentially a niche art form. The Misunderstanding of 3-D 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z The scene is supposed to read as idyllic, a reprieve from the gross American capitalism and modernized world. White Filmmakers Addressing (or Avoiding) Whiteness Onscreen 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z You think about the ravages of capitalism and then you exit by the gift shop and you see the wall of donors. Josh Kline’s Survival Art for 21st-Century America 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z She noted that capitalism is seen by many as a “pillar” holding up our society. On the Met Roof, Alicja Kwade’s Test of Faith 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z Their target was not the failures of the self but those of capitalism and social democracy. ‘The Blue Touch Paper: A Memoir,’ by David Hare 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z In the quarter of a century since the film appeared, the balance has shifted too much in the direction of short-term shareholders, prompting criticisms of "quarterly capitalism". Flickonomics: eight movies that teach us how money works 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z Fleeting attempts at self-reflection are scrapped for strategies for surviving in the ruthless corridors of high capitalism. "Mad Men" finale: Hello darkness, my old friend 2010-10-18T12:38:00Z Poverty, climate change, and human suffering aren't the result of "overpopulation" — they're a result of vastly unequal distribution of resources, stemming from capitalism and colonialism. Sweet Tooth’s shocking twist is a critique of eco-fascist values 2021-06-08T04:00:00Z Northern Ireland was a small but significant fissure in the historical narrative that led from the Allied victory in World War II to the global victory of capitalism and liberal democracy in the Cold War. Inside the Troubles of “’71″: This Belfast war thriller is (almost) an Iraq war movie in disguise 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z I think he began to see that capitalism's not a game. Alex Gibney on "Citizen K": Real-life thriller of an oligarch who turned against Vladimir Putin 2020-01-18T05:00:00Z His grotesque, stage-hijacking Engineer came across as the flaming, smoking soul of corrupt capitalism, rather in the mold of another uneasy but immortal cultural stereotype, Charles Dickens’s Fagin. Review: Return of the Little Copter That Wowed in ‘Miss Saigon’ 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z The society most people wanted from the 1945 election was a 1930s with jobs, that is, not socialism but reformed capitalism. Ken Loach's Spirit of '45 is a fantasy 2013-03-08T07:00:32Z How much had the frenzied reach of American capitalism helped set the stage for Mr. Orbán’s rise? Reckoning With Memories of Budapest 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z That means drag, jazz and physical comedy; in their mixture of contemporary and period details, his productions have suggested an unsettling affinity between the rapacious capitalism of the Weimar Republic and contemporary society. Offenbach’s ‘Fabulous Nonsense’ Hits Salzburg, With Cancan 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z In capitalism’s colonization of every aspect of our lives — work, leisure, worldview — it too makes a “total claim” on its subjects. Letters to the Editor 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z We take a moment with Jamaica Kincaid, who writes about botany and British colonialism, and we tour a Colombian rose farm, where the questions of workers’ rights and capitalism are alive today. Review | Orwell was more than a social critic. Rebecca Solnit’s new book finds him in the garden. 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z TH Do you get the sense that what people such as Soros partly liked about Marx was the way he describes so brilliantly the energy, iconoclasm and potential of capitalism? From Marx to the Milibands 2011-01-16T00:04:08Z He approaches the quandaries of capitalism with a shrewd eye for detail. What’s the alternative? 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z As she documents a range of subjects — including reality TV, capitalism and the exploitation of immigrant workers — Smith questions how an individual’s experiences are shaped by the dominant culture and how to push back. Review | Joy Harjo’s stunning new collection and other best poetry collections this month 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z There's some kind of cultural limbo that we are living in that, I think, is to do with the death of communism and now the rapid decline of capitalism. 'Reality has surpassed satire' 2010-08-21T23:04:00Z It was also a speech, in case you didn’t get it, that indicted the lie-dream of capitalism; the idea that knuckling down in straight society delivered contentment rather than economic exploitation and spiritual ruin. ‘Choose Facebook, revenge porn, zero hours': what does the Trainspotting speech mean today? 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z RoboCop, for the love of God, because kids have traditionally always gone crazy for pitch-black satires dealing with the logical endpoint of military-industrial capitalism. 2 Fast 2 Furious 2 Animated: in praise of the cartoon spin-off series 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z When it’s Blackness versus the American dream, that paradise of white capitalism, the house always wins. When Black Characters Double-Deal to Make Ends Meet, It’s Never Enough 2023-01-14T05:00:00Z The senator from Vermont discusses capitalism’s negative effects on society. Washington Post hardcover bestsellers 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z For a writer so alert to how capitalism can grind people down, that's unexpected. George Saunders: 'It was good to have a painful immersion in capitalism' 2013-05-26T08:00:06Z In 1934, the Criterion at Piccadilly Circus hosted a glamorous white-tie dinner on the theme "We Have Been to Russia", with speakers lining up to welcome the inevitable victory of communism over capitalism. The King's Speech: How George VI's simple domesticity made him the king his country needed in time of war 2011-01-02T00:05:01Z Credit the massive conglomerate Disney for cheering the victims of capitalism. Review: Musical 'Newsies' is relentlessly cheery 2012-03-30T01:50:08Z This, he said, was the start of the “new climate movement,” one that “knows capitalism and freedom” instead of regulation. Meet the conservatives who want to fight climate change — their way 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z A riveting piece of cinema has captured the world’s attention, sparking endless debate about the perils of life under capitalism. There's a huge row over reclining your airline seat. Is capitalism to blame? 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z The country’s long transition to democracy also brought rapacious Western-style capitalism after years of isolation. Romanian Artists Rethink Brancusi’s Legacy 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z The investigation unveils a larger plot that pits capitalism against the country. What’s on TV Friday: ‘Wet Hot American Summer’ and ‘Comrade Detective’ 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z Stop the story here and the film being heralded as a critique of capitalism is more about the dangers of trusting the working class. Why Parasite misses the mark as a commentary on South Korean society 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z What remains, of course, is the soullessness of it all, and the tendency for its characters to steer deliberately clear of any deep or existential qualms about capitalism, exploitation or any of that. Review | In HBO’s sordid but watchable ‘Industry,’ the world now belongs to the zuppies 2020-11-08T05:00:00Z Don’t worry: I didn’t explain that it was a perfect deconstruction of the relationship between patriarchy and capitalism. My life had grown distant from my mother’s – but she tended my baby while I read Marx 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z Le Carré was at his most expansive when talking about the post-cold war era and his dislike of the excesses of capitalism, but even then he kept his cards fairly close to his chest. John Le Carr?: A Life Unmasked ? review 2010-12-10T21:45:00Z “White Pearl’s” twist is to set this story of the wages of capitalism among young Asian women of various nationalities, and watch as the rivalries, ethnic misunderstandings and outright prejudices explode. Review | ‘White Pearl’ is an amusing take on the beauty business. But watch out — things get ugly. 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z But as with regular life, this afterlife is strangled by capitalism and thus replicates much of the exploitation and crappiness one might hope to escape, including subscription fees and relentless advertising. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z He’s after something larger about the unintended consequences of capitalism on both individuals and societies: meant to be a cure-all, it is too often a comeuppance. Review: Anna Chlumsky and Adam Pally Paint the Town Red in ‘Cardinal’ 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z While kombucha cases and ample vegan options may signal to shoppers that this isn't your average American grocery store, they alone don't hedge businesses against the grinding gears of capitalism. Whole Foods' CEO wants to reconnect to the chain's core values. After Amazon deal, is that possible? 2022-09-06T04:00:00Z When death starts trending, we witness information capitalism in action. When death is a trending topic: Social media mourning runs from shallow to deep 2017-05-13T04:00:00Z The systems that control our lives — institutional racism, predatory capitalism, the prison-industrial complex — seem as powerful and implacable as gods. ‘Clyde’s’ Review: Sometimes a Hero Is More Than Just a Sandwich 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z Attending the Met Gala for the first time in her 50-year career, Ms. Baranski expected to see some parallels between that “age of rampant capitalism” and now — but from a slight distance. Christine Baranski Is an Expert in ‘Gilded Glamour’ 2022-05-02T04:00:00Z This piece of philosophical whimsy tells of an aging woman who saves civilization from the rampages of predatory capitalism. A pack of Parisian oddballs take on the corporate elite 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z Chute writes about predatory capitalism from the vantage point of the Mainers who are the least enfranchised and most abandoned, “stressed to the breaking point,” she has written. Read Your Way Through Maine 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z It had a sociology of the problem, but instead of classes and capitalism there were intellectuals and the Party; these were the enemies to be fought and overthrown. The Plight of the Political Convert 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z “Otherwise, just my impression, capitalism only takes the money. Then, exploitation.” Gentrifying the dharma: How the 1% is hijacking mindfulness 2014-03-05T15:29:00Z Once considered standoffish, genteel and politically marginal, they are now viewed as being emblematically engaged players within the power network of global capitalism. Making Museums Moral Again 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z But for clarity's sake we should establish that predatory capitalism takes the principle to a darker place in that it accepts exploitation and brute domination as part of as necessary evils. The allure of Netflix's brutal "Squid Game" owes a debt to our predatory upbringing 2021-10-02T04:00:00Z I am far from advocating waste and profligacy or cheerleading for an unbridled capitalism. A global population of 10 billion is nothing to worry about 2013-06-14T08:59:17Z The attitude, he says, was: "Let's forget about 'the system', because capitalism won." Does Nicolas Jaar's music defy description? 2010-09-01T15:22:00Z The opioid crisis shows “the danger of what happens when you mix and kind of turbo-charged 21st Century capitalism with health care,” he said. To filmmaker Gibney, opioid crisis is ‘Crime of the Century’ 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z Redemption is the triumph of secular capitalism over all organized religion, forced by the barrels of Western guns. In a Wagnerian Whirlwind, One Conductor Breaks Through 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z “What takes the story to a profound place is that it is about the dark side of American capitalism, where you have the collusion of government and industry.” ‘Dopesick’ Uses Drama, and Michael Keaton, to Give the Opioid Crisis a Human Face 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z Everyone knows that major shifts are inevitable once capitalism begins to flood the socialist zone. The Havana Biennial Is Running at Full Throttle 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z For all that Horace and Pete harkens back to the good old days, C.K. is unapologetic about taking part in internet capitalism. Review: Louis C.K.'s Surprise TV Show 'Horace and Pete' Hits a Bum Note 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z If capitalism is your religion, you might call it his “brand.” Review | Lil Yachty is rap’s brightest optimist. Why does he bum so many people out? 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z “I’m not against capitalism but I’m against PR masquerading as art,” he said, “and if it were for charity that would be different.” The Return of the Shadowman 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z Her aphoristic distillation of capitalism, racism, misogyny and other cultural blights defines a certain kind of progressive thinking that is common in large tracts of the arts world. Perspective | As the art world reopens, will the change be genuine? This critic is looking in some unlikely places. 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z But the root cause of disaffection in the group involved something much more fundamental than its efforts to dabble in hip capitalism or pop mysticism. When the Beatles Walked Offstage: Fifty Years of “Abbey Road” 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z The drug trade, the show recognized, was capitalism in its most raw, potent, uncut form, with a killer product, a captive market and a disposable work force. ‘The Wire’ Stands Alone 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z He goes to Wigan with grave doubts about capitalism, and leaves it with grave doubts about socialism. The war that made Orwell 2014-01-11T15:00:00Z He is tossed about by the fall of Communism, and by the ravages of capitalism, racist nationalism and crime that the collapse unleashes. British Spies, Japanese Teens and a German Cop’s Wild Ride 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z Marx’s best known and most influential works are the Communist Manifesto, co-written with Friedrich Engels and released in 1848, and his caustic analysis of capitalism “Das Kapital” two decades later. Marx birthplace cashes in on 0 euro notes for anniversary 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z You could read an entire history of civilization and capitalism in how Marianne drapes her legs across a lounger or strides into a humble Italian home to sample some homemade ricotta. Review: ‘A Bigger Splash,’ With a Speechless Tilda Swinton, Is Ready for Its Close-Up 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z The exhibition includes many examples, which themselves provide a kind of pictorial view of changes in the nature of American capitalism. The Secret Art History on Your Money 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z According to Sperber, not only is Marx's critique of capitalism of very limited applicability to the modern world, it was barely relevant when first published. Karl Marx: a Nineteenth-Century Life by Jonathan Sperber – review 2013-06-26T07:00:04Z But the way that capitalism produces in individuals an anodyne belief in their own precious individuality is not news. Fox’s populist dance spectacle 2012-09-18T18:08:00Z And, in "It's Capital," distills the essence of capitalism into several snappy verses. Review: 'Iron Curtain' turns Cold War into a splashy romp 2011-04-07T19:24:04Z His book becomes a withering indictment of rapacious capitalism. The Story of Appalachia, With Plenty of Villains 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z Its “Holländer,” by Jan Philipp Gloger, casts the story as the inevitable triumph of capitalism over romance, as images of the failed love of the Dutchman and Senta become a commodity to be sold. In a Wagnerian Whirlwind, One Conductor Breaks Through 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z Has the destructive aspect of capitalism reached a tipping point? A Modern Jeremiah Sees National Decline Everywhere He Looks 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z Later, in one of many druggy scenes, she says, “I actually wrote a paper on the moral case for capitalism.” Review: ‘Industry’ Is a Familiar Story, but With More Zeros 2020-11-08T05:00:00Z And fourth was the crisis of capitalism, which struck home in the early 1930s and contributed hugely to the rise of Nazism. A grim half-century 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z He repeatedly attributes the darker side of his story to “war capitalism.” ‘Empire of Cotton,’ by Sven Beckert 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z Her book, “As Texas Goes... ,” pays particular attention to the state’s staggering inequality, casual embrace of crony capitalism and creaky educational pipeline. Books of The Times: ‘As Texas Goes ’ by Gail Collins 2012-07-02T21:01:09Z It’s Darwinian capitalism: only the rich survive—forever. ”For a few to be immortal,” Philippe says, “many must die.” In Time: Justin Timberlake Tries to Beat the Clock 2011-10-27T22:04:17Z Lafon was raised by French parents in Ceausescu’s Romania; her observations on the hypocrisies of both capitalism and Communism when it comes to sport, and to the lives of women, are sharp and unsparing. The Books We Loved in 2016 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z Pondering the role of entrepreneurship and innovation in this process, Schumpeter argued that capitalism renews itself in periodic waves of traumatic upheaval. Technology is a double-edged sword 2012-12-23T00:07:19Z But what’s more surprising than the corruption of Consilience is the quick collapse of this potentially insightful novel about unbridled capitalism. Margaret Atwood’s ‘The Heart Goes Last’: A satire of unbridled capitalism 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z Since “California has a privileged place” in the capitalist story, and capitalism controls the world, this book aims to explain, well, pretty much everything. Can One City Be a Microcosm of Everything That’s Wrong? 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z And I find their wider point about there being a parallel between Islamist fundamentalism and western capitalism far too simplistic. A radicalisation expert's view on The Reluctant Fundamentalist 2013-06-02T19:00:03Z Hollywood is not a normal industry; it’s a conspiracy by capitalism and Zionism. ‘Argo’ just another insult by Hollywood, Iranians say 2013-02-19T06:28:19Z It’s a cruel, mercenary strategy, but the movie is selling uplift, not a lesson in 21st-century rapacious capitalism, so their duplicity is delivered with sniffles, smiles and hollow rationalizations. Review: Lots of Plastic in the Face of ‘Collateral Beauty’ 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z When you butt up against capitalism in that way, it leaves a scar that stays. George Saunders: a life in writing 2013-01-12T12:01:01Z But narco cartels are not adversaries of capitalism, nor even pastiches of the legal economy – they are integral to it and change with the markets. Mexico: How arrest of the last don heralds ruthless new drugs era 2014-10-04T04:00:00Z For Marxist-oriented critics, the zombie represents the economic victims of capitalism. Zombie Poetry Takes On a Life of Its Own 2012-01-13T14:47:39Z Kirkwood goes even further in examining the nature of capitalism in both countries. Chimerica – review 2013-05-29T12:10:27Z To be a white Midwestern evangelical now is to be enveloped by Trumpism, which Lenz describes as "a civil religion deeply connected with Christianity but also influenced by capitalism, regionalism and politics." Surviving "God Land" in the age of Trump: Lyz Lenz on faith, politics and the Midwest 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z Is this painting about capitalism, industry, the precious leisure moments of a working class subjected to new disciplines? George Seurat's Bathers at Asni?res: look again 2010-04-15T10:37:00Z The Washington Post's Ann Hornaday is more ambivalent, calling "Get Hard" a "fish-out-of-water buddy comedy that — when it's working — also does a smartly scathing job of sending up privilege, entitlement and crony capitalism." 'Get Hard': Kevin Hart prison comedy has a hard time with critics 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z “Triangle of Sadness,” in effect a shaggy-dog art-house reboot of “Gilligan’s Island,” has many insights to offer about the shallowness of supermodels, the vulgarity of Russian oligarchs and the brutal inequality of global consumer capitalism. ‘Triangle of Sadness’ Review: Don’t Worry, Be Happy 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z To a degree this attitude mirrored the times: Ralph produced his most influential work in the late 1960s and the 70s, when capitalism in Britain was going through a major crisis. Ed: The Milibands and the Making of a Labour Leader by Mehdi Hasan and James Macintyre - review 2011-07-15T21:55:11Z “In much the same way that you still have to make money if you disagree with capitalism, you still have to exist within patriarchy,” she says. Sexting: do men and women do it differently? 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z Yet there are forces other than capitalism at work here. Are goats the new weed whackers? Plenty of people want them to be. 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z Come for the suave personalities and impeccably tailored suits, stay for the trenchant critique of modern capitalism and its ivory-tower movers and shakers. New Directors/New Films Turns 50 With a Bracingly Eclectic Lineup 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z But in the background is anyone they perceive to be adversely affected by capitalism – people they increasingly feel cannot be ignored. Godspeed You! Black Emperor: 'You make music for the king and his court, or for the serfs outside the walls' 2012-10-11T09:18:00Z That transforms American capitalism from personal success based on hard work and quality of work, to inventive, dominant business models. ‘The Founder’: Burgers, Fries and a Couple of Wiseguys 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z While there are multiple, valid criticisms to be made of the hollowness of consumer capitalism, the fact remains that it’s the linchpin of the American socioeconomic order. The real history of the “war on Christmas” 2013-12-24T12:45:00Z “And as you can see these kinds of situations are exposing the crisis of capitalism in ways we never expected.” 'I had this image of my husband making love to a tree': directors on filming shorts for Netflix's Homemade 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z On the one hand, it’s a terrifying look at capitalism’s slippery slopes and a realistic depiction of how a person’s will can shrivel into apathy and fear. Heart-Hammering Science Fiction and Fantasy Thrillers 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z Rothko is not exactly a starving artist, Ken suggests, and the home for his latest works is not a contemplative, chapellike museum but an expensive watering hole for the titans of capitalism. 'Red' examines art, an artist, the act of creation 2010-04-02T01:16:00Z The show is a specific critique of capitalism and inequity in South Korea. Emmys 2022: Lee Jung-jae Would Stay in the ‘Squid Game’ Contest 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z Throughout his career, he never cared about wealth or status, which he considered shallow markers of American capitalism. How "Fiddler on the Roof" helped usher in the Jewish Pride movement of the 1960s 2023-07-08T04:00:00Z In this telegraphic survey, the Cold War is reduced to a struggle between symmetrical behemoths, capitalism fighting Communism. First World War Galleries Reopen at Imperial War Museum 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z So, does the inseparable history of Christmas and commercialism mean that Christmas has no spiritual meaning and that consumer capitalism is necessarily bad? The real history of the “war on Christmas” 2013-12-24T12:45:00Z I think it is the reality of late stage capitalism. The reality of life in a "Dopesick" country: "It is just a state of misery" 2019-08-24T04:00:00Z Global issues — capitalism run amok, jingoism, totalitarian madness — are discernible in individual actions. A big 'like' for Caryl Churchill's 'Love and Information' 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z A believer in how capitalism can be used to eradicate inequality, Piketty argues for new taxation systems that might minimize the gap between the one percent and the underserved. Review | Ten books to read in March 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z In Who Owns the Future? he tellingly questions the trajectory of economic value in the information age, and argues that there has been a fundamental misstep in how capitalism has gone digital. Who Owns the Future? by Jaron Lanier – review 2013-02-27T07:59:01Z To top it off, he develops an economic theory that avoids the extremes of fascism and communism, basically saving capitalism from itself. New & Noteworthy, From Slave Traders to the Savoy Hotel 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z But like other films directed by Larry Cohen, the indie outré director who died in March, it’s a smartly considered indictment of capitalism and the American food industry. A Horror Genre Where Dresses (and Fridges) Can Kill 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z This might not seem a big deal – after all, it's just capitalism doing its thing. The real cost of the smartphone revolution 2012-06-02T23:05:40Z Ironically, the drive to hyperproductivity that some argue is a central feature of capitalism is at an all-time high. The anti-work movement in "Clerks," "Modern Times" & other films 2022-10-15T04:00:00Z This is what freedom of expression looks like, extruded through the priorities of late corporate capitalism and aggressively asymmetrical global politics. Sony, ‘The Interview’ and the unspoken truth that all movies are political 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z He is a grotesque vision of rampant, unbridled capitalism. Perspective | ‘Dune’ has long divided the science fiction world. The new film won’t change that. 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Robin discerns three main themes in Thomas’s jurisprudence — race, capitalism and Constitution — and he maps these points to three periods in Thomas’s life. ‘The Enigma of Clarence Thomas’ Makes a Strong Case for Its Provocative Thesis 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z Another, Mission Drift, created by America's Team company and described as "a glitzy journey in pursuit of the soul of American capitalism", will be staged at the NT's temporary Shed performance space. Musicals hit a deeper note as directors bring serious themes to the stage 2013-04-13T14:47:07Z Through both ruthless dealing and visionary philanthropy, he came to personify American capitalism. Crocodile of the Yangzi 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z Co-written and directed by Oliver Stone, and starring Michael Douglas, Wall Street documents the rise of modern "shareholder capitalism". Flickonomics: eight movies that teach us how money works 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z Even if history changes direction, and Mr Gordon’s rise-and-fall thesis proves to be wrong, this book will survive as a superb reconstruction of material life in America in the heyday of industrial capitalism. G force 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z “The profits are enormous here for places like Google. They’ve invested a huge amount of money in data mining—what you are buying, what you like, your behavior. It’s what some people call surveillance capitalism.” Snowden's Oliver Stone on Pokemon Go and Surveillance 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z As always with neoliberal capitalism, there are contradictions at work. Donald Trump, America’s isolation and the World Cup: There’s no stopping Big Soccer 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z Depression as an issue of culture, of essential alienation – as, indeed, a logical response to late capitalism – is raised occasionally, but policy runs shy of making these connections. 'Everyone else was just a bit player': my night out with Elizabeth Wurtzel | Suzanne Moore 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z More germane, and more interesting, is how a girl capable of delivering vast soliloquies on medieval saints and late-stage capitalism came to be a high school dropout serving weird pies. One Apartment Building, Many Lives 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z Concepts such as late capitalism weren’t being bandied about in mainstream conversations about politics and culture. Amazon's "The Boys": In this rowdy exploration of superhero backlash, anger is also a superpower 2019-07-24T04:00:00Z Walt Jr.’s look at his father resembles the way we view someone we have just buried, though there is no room in capitalism to allow for such prolonged glances of curiosity. Four years later, “Breaking Bad” remains the boldest indictment of modern American capitalism in TV history 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z It all feels like a straw-diva rebuttal: “You call it exploitation, but look, this fictional woman I created wants to show her nipples on camera! Woke capitalism won’t let her express herself!” ‘The Idol’ Is Ending Sunday. Here’s Why That’s a Good Thing. 2023-06-30T04:00:00Z Perhaps this new work will deepen the renewed interest in Marxism prompted by our global recession and scepticism about capitalism. Fastest! Tallest! Marxist! The visual art of Phil Collins 2011-02-06T22:29:00Z The movie depicts a fundamental dilemma at the heart of modern capitalism. Flickonomics: eight movies that teach us how money works 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z It’s not capitalism that runs roughshod over vulnerable communities. The Democratic Presidential Candidate Eager to Challenge Trump on Immigration 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z The millennia-old spice trade was always extremely lucrative for those who controlled it, but it was the development of colonialism and capitalism that shaped spice supply chains as we know them today. When it comes to sustainable spices, ‘single-origin’ isn’t everything 2023-09-11T04:00:00Z If potato salad leads people to reflect on the injustices of modern American capitalism, then we really may be on to something. The Potato Salad Guy Should Keep Every Penny 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z By following several generations of the Hill family, Sedgewick brings agency to the commodity-centric history that historians often pursue to convey the global dimensions of modern capitalism. How Coffee Ruined a Country 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z “One of capitalism’s primary goals is to turn us all into wallets, into predictable algorithms. And I’m an inconsistent, messy, dysfunctional human being. I feel like saying, ‘I don’t know, I’m a mess’ is resistance.” Sherman Alexie on his new memoir, his mother and politics as usual 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z But we’re also living in an era where capitalism is one of the enemies. Erykah Badu Is Blazing a New Trail (From Badubotron) 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z Ms. Syjuco employs diverse formats — installations, performance and photography — to investigate such subjects as the distribution of goods under capitalism and the persistence of neocolonialism. What’s New in Photography? Humanism, MoMA Says 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z Zuboff shows how surveillance capitalism undermines and, ultimately, destroys not only free will and autonomy but also the fundamentals of democracy. The Turkish Novelist Elif Shafak Wants You to Read More Women 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z Featuring songs about alienation, capitalism and the impact of modern technology, "OK Computer" sounds oddly prescient in a politically divided and anxious Britain in 2017. Sound of silence opens UK's Glastonbury before Manchester classics fill the void 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z Kenneally reminds us that the fault lines of capitalism are everywhere within our nation, running through the very foundation we keep building upon. A Portrait of Love and Struggle in Post-Industrial, Small-City America 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z The strategy, sometimes derided as “vulture capitalism,” has gradually weakened newspapers but has been financially lucrative. ‘A lot of uncertainty’: Staffers at renowned McClatchy newspapers mull bankruptcy sale to tabloid-owning hedge fund 2020-07-13T04:00:00Z Of Teed, he writes, “Overthrowing capitalism with a communist mop factory proved impossible.” How Cults Corrected America 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z It's a play that hurts to watch, particularly presented up close, as it is here in Ria Parry's revival, in which the confining space of the Finborough becomes a metaphor for spirits cramped by capitalism. Fen ? review 2011-03-09T19:01:00Z “It gets at the core of our economic system and challenges the notion of capitalism as the way to organize our food economy,” Thapar says. For a new generation of farmers, accessing land is the first step toward tackling consolidation 2018-11-25T05:00:00Z As Moyo notes, left to its own devices, capitalism produces income inequality. Dambisa Moyo’s Proposals for Saving Democracy 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z Much ink has been spilled on the topic of corporate endorsements during large Pride parades, the way that capitalism has sprawled itself over the day and co-opted Pride from its radical queer roots. What Does Pride Mean Now? 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z The filmmakers and their cast of mostly Asian-American historians frame the Exclusion Act as part of a long national narrative of racism, xenophobia, predatory capitalism and political calculation. Review: A New Film Investigates the Time America Banned an Entire Race 2018-05-28T04:00:00Z It’s quite a different story in reality from the tale that is sometimes told of how capitalism grew up without controls in the United States, and then with the New Deal it came under regulation. The Queen 2012-06-11T11:00:00Z In conversation, Anohni rigorously dismantled capitalism, technology and corporate campaigns to suppress information. Anohni Isn’t Afraid of the Darkness 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z In part this was accepted as the price for power, but it also reflected New Labour's Fukuyama-like faith that market capitalism was the final stage of economic development; the future lay with the self-regulating market. Ralph Miliband and sons 2010-09-06T07:00:00Z Let me look at a couple of episodes to put some bones on my argument about “Breaking Bad’s” devastating critique of neoliberal capitalism functioning through highly stylized cinematographic techniques. Four years later, “Breaking Bad” remains the boldest indictment of modern American capitalism in TV history 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z Constitutional freedoms, the ideals of democracy, civil rights and even the sanctity of the human individual, perhaps the greatest innovation of capitalism – all are subjugated to the Ministry of Fear. The Year in Fear: From Ebola to street violence to Comrade Kim 2014-12-20T05:00:00Z Although this episode might sound like a footnote in the story of Russia’s transition to capitalism, “Red Penguins” is filled with tales of cultures clashing and misunderstood intentions. ‘Red Penguins’ Review: A Rowdy Look at Post-Soviet Russia 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z I think it’s an evolution of the 20th century economy of industrial capitalism converging with the new technology. Expanded trust made the sharing economy: “It creates the possibility of getting into a stranger’s car” 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z Auroville continues to attract people searching for a simpler life, fleeing the grind of capitalism or, for women, conservative or traditional cultures with rigid gender roles. When Utopia Met Dystopia, They Were There 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z I think it was the folk singer Oscar Brand who said the electric guitar was “a tool of capitalism.” Bob Dylan’s legendary defiance: “They had to crank it up to drown out the boos” when he went electric 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z But you're right, they would have been happy to accept more genuine help, as opposed to disaster capitalism, which is where a lot of the money went. Hot seat: David Simon explains "Treme" 2011-07-04T12:05:00Z Just a decade later, in the late 1960s, many young people were advocating total revolution and frontal assault on capitalism and every manifestation of “the system” and its values. Millennials will save us! 2013-02-16T19:00:00Z Predatory capitalism is the beast snarling at their back and the one waiting at the bottom of the pit, jaws open wide. The allure of Netflix's brutal "Squid Game" owes a debt to our predatory upbringing 2021-10-02T04:00:00Z “Liberalism, capitalism, the post-Soviet syndrome,” he said, “are very interesting topics in Russia right now.” Special Report: Contemporary Art: Using Wealth to Critique the Wealthy 2010-12-01T11:00:00Z His critique of the cultural impact of industrial capitalism was most clearly presented in a posthumously published memoir, “The Education of Henry Adams.” The Brilliant, Bitter, Unlikable Scion of an American Political Dynasty 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z An environmental regulation becomes one more clamp on the muscles of capitalism. A Green New Deal ignites an old red scare 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z The new forms of capitalism emphasise short-term labour and institutional fragmentation; the effect of this economic system has been that workers cannot sustain supportive social relations with one another. All together now: Montaigne and the art of co-operation 2012-02-10T22:55:14Z In these works Odets declares open war on American capitalism in all its manifestations, expressing a defiant hostility to bourgeois values. Rocket to the Moon revived 2011-03-19T00:06:40Z Material love displayed the ugly side capitalism and chasing luxury items over love, family, and knowledge, but no one taught us that. I always loved hip-hop, but Nas transformed me into a fan, which ultimately changed my life 2023-05-14T04:00:00Z "Sequence Error" is a gorgeous, dreamy, psychological thriller with a vague plot that implicates all kinds of systems — capitalism, politics — and, ultimately, viewers themselves. CoCA juried show: no theme but plenty of meaning 2012-01-12T21:20:06Z Possible, basically, only in the 1980s, after the movements had more or less subsided and capitalism and jokey white paternalism ran wild. Why Do the Oscars Keep Falling for Racial Reconciliation Fantasies? 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z Sayle – according to his new memoir, Stalin Ate My Homework – was brought up believing in the violent overthrow of capitalism and mass murder as a political tool. Alexei Sayle: How?Stalin stole my?childhood 2011-08-11T20:00:02Z As the DailyDot reported back in May, Weathers is something of an opportunist when it comes to "outrage capitalism." Donald Trump's mugshot beer: How the Bud Light boycott bred the ultimate conservative cash grab 2023-09-18T04:00:00Z Olowu begins the show by demonstrating that pattern is far from benign, indicating that material culture often reflects the histories of capitalism, colonialism and racism. Duro Olowu Excavates Pattern at the Cooper Hewitt 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z No offense, but capitalism's not going to fix the conditions that we're living under. Samantha Bee on why she's on tour: "It is feeling treacherous out there to be a woman" 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z Asked if the project proceeded from a philosophical position on the future of cities under late capitalism — Baudelaire’s “passionate spectator” or Walter Benjamin’s more politically pointed roving saboteur — Relph demurred. He Stalks Delirious, Unfinished New York as It Rises 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z “Rest is key to connecting to the wisdom of our ancestors and creating a new world. It is pushing back against white supremacy and capitalism.” Rest as Reparations 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z There’s only a little time left to invest in a ticket to Bruce Norris’s picaresque about free market capitalism. 15 Plays and Musicals to Go to in NYC This Weekend 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z If the Builders were hoping to expose another Amazonian hellhole of capitalism, I’m not sure they succeeded; the experience, being pleasant enough, was at odds with the message. Review: In ‘I Agree to the Terms,’ It’s Raining Pennies From Amazon 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z The three leading countries of industrial capitalism – the United States, Germany and Japan – developed by using techniques, as Ha-Joon Chang points out, that are the opposite of what are supposed to work. The Queen 2012-06-11T11:00:00Z “That is why now a majority prefer socialism to capitalism even though they are nor certain what either means,” Fraad said. The job crisis we must not ignore: Employment for young Americans remains staggeringly low 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z That mid 20th-century approach was intended, at least in part, to showcase capitalism on a global scale. Same difference: Photographs of 32 hotel rooms in 32 countries reveal few variations 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z Now they're back with their award-winning 2011 Edinburgh festival sellout, Mission Drift, a musical about the pioneer spirit and how capitalism built the US. The Team: a theatre company who specialise in bursting American bubbles 2013-06-04T18:30:02Z By drilling deep into the woods that enabled this country to conquer the world, Proulx has laid out the whole history of American capitalism and its rapacious destruction of the land. Annie Proulx’s long-awaited, spectacular new novel ‘Barkskins’ 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z And when Mitchell starts ranting about capitalism he sounds remarkably irate. David Mitchell: ‘I see myself as a coward’ 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z “The questions that Hitler was addressing — inequality, migration, the challenge of international capitalism — they’re as salient as they were when he set out to provide his peculiarly destructive and demented answers,” Simms said. Can History’s ‘Great Man’ Theory Explain Hitler? 2019-09-29T04:00:00Z Hopefully the grand forces of capitalism will also mean a price war, which would be a boon for consumers. CBS All Access and HBO Go: is this the end of TV? 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z They see benefits to themselves, benefits to capitalism and profitability. Michael Moore on why America “needs a little time in the timeout room,” and whether Hillary will start a war to prove “a woman can pull the trigger” 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z The contradiction of corporate-funded films denouncing corporations is an irony capitalism cannot just absorb, but thrive on. Batman's political right turn 2012-07-22T17:29:01Z George Roy Hill's film is about violence, capitalism and unfulfilled dreams set in the world of minor league hockey. Steve James picks his 5 favorite sports films 2012-09-20T21:52:08Z For this was the era of welfare capitalism, and an ethos of statism and paternalism – above all, a belief that active government was necessary for a healthy, stable society – was shared by those with power. The establishment uncovered: how power works in Britain 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z “Such Good Work” and “The Altruists” are alive to the contradictions between morality and comfort that exist everywhere under global structures of capitalism and politics. Two Début Novels Explore How to Be Good 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z In her Newbery speech, Raskin said, wryly, that, as she wrote the novel, her “tribute to American labor history ended up a comedy in praise of capitalism.” “The Westing Game,” a Tribute to Labor That Became a Dark Comedy of American Capitalism 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z In 2013, they debated at the University of Carolina over the influence of capitalism on the framing of the Constitution. Gordon Wood and Woody Holton clash over past and present 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z Stories of tech-enabled social change and New Economy capitalism weren’t in competition; they coëxisted and played off one another. On Reading Issues of Wired from 1993 to 1995 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z Here, in a nutshell is what went wrong with capitalism. Amnesty teen takeover: Debi Gliori's top 10 books with pictures that open your eyes to the world 2012-08-22T11:19:04Z There is nothing about Western foreign policy, global capitalism, or white privilege that explains this. Sam Harris talks Islam, ISIS, atheism, GOP madness: “We are confronting people, in dozens of countries, who despise more or less everything that we value” 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z The definition of what success is has been so tied into productivity and capitalism. Susan Sarandon on life, career and politics: "It is getting pretty biblical out there" 2021-08-01T04:00:00Z The devastation of the climate, the ravages of capitalism, the marginal status of theater — that’s a lot to cram into a single South Brooklyn apartment. ‘Buzz,’ a New Play by Benjamin Kunkel 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z "In Europe, your media hasn't yet been fully infiltrated by capitalism," he says. When the going gets tough, Aloe Blacc gets going 2010-09-17T23:06:00Z This sprawling book is his account of those crimes, and of the larger “system of domination and production” that the so-called “Palo Alto System” epitomizes: capitalism. Can One City Be a Microcosm of Everything That’s Wrong? 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z Through the eyes of Kosawa’s citizens young and old, Mbue constructs a nuanced exploration of self-interest, of what it means to want in the age of capitalism and colonialism — these machines of malicious, insatiable wanting. The 10 Best Books of 2021 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z Next on the calendar is "Taipei Exchanges," which explores the values of idealism and capitalism via two sisters who run a coffee shop. New Taiwan Academy in Westwood features films from the island 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z As filmmakers were shooting "Get Hard," a draft of the shooting script called for Ferrell’s character to defend by name the tax loophole that he and his firm enacted, an unusually specific parsing of capitalism. 'Get Hard's (sort of) loftier intentions 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z The conversation touched on gender, race, discrimination, millennials, capitalism, Hollywood and the media. Most famous men accused of sexual misconduct have been lying low. Not Tavis Smiley. 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z The first of Norris's plays to be commissioned by the Royal Court, its attack on cut-throat capitalism is broad-brush but full of colour and movement. Peter and Alice; The Low Road – review 2013-03-31T00:05:46Z “Ultimately, perhaps it is good that the people abandoned jazz, replaced it with musical products better suited to capitalism’s designs,” he muses. Best Jazz Albums of 2022 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z At CBS, at least with the editors I had, there was no requirement to pull back on chronicling the ravages of debt-vulture global capitalism. Career advice for Sean Spicer: Work nights at a supermarket — like I did after he cost me my job 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z A model that combines rights and redistribution can save capitalism from its own contradiction, but capitalists cannot be trusted to save themselves. Viet Thanh Nguyen on the Democrats' failure and our future 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z The idea that an employer gives you time off to consume a drug the company provides free of charge should tell you all you need to know about the ties between capitalism and caffeine. After a Hard Day’s Writing, Michael Pollan Likes to Unwind With a Novel 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z In his book, Thiel takes on capitalism’s obsession with competition—he prefers monopolies, defined as finding an untapped market. Silicon Valley provocateur Thiel takes on 'many-sided mediocrity' 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z From each according to his ability to each according to his need – that's capitalism, right? Vandalising an old master is bad, but not quite as evil as queue-jumping 2011-07-23T23:06:18Z In both cases, when humans prove inconvenient, capitalism creates monsters. Review: ‘I’m a Virgo’ Goes Big 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z The Soviet Union, with nannying guides, controlled and protected its tourists; the new Russia torments visitors with every scam available to rampant capitalism. Why We Travel 2011-04-01T19:10:47Z She lambasts the American imperium and its souped-up capitalism, multinational institutions like the World Bank, and corporate greed. The Prescient Anger of Arundhati Roy 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z She was raised in one of China’s first special economic zones, the site of its earliest experiments with capitalism. Chinese Life as Child?s Play 2011-06-04T23:45:24Z Their capitalism is not just about making their own way in a frontier land, but "taking what they can while the taking is good." Kelly Reichardt's "First Cow" is a captivating and unhurried look at race & class in 1800s Oregon 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z The show also includes some of his later satirical critiques of capitalism and consumerism. Singapore's Once Unruly Young Artist, Still Poking at Social Norms 2010-08-17T14:39:00Z "I think there was a pretty hard critique of capitalism," Moore said. The "Whitest Kids U Know" — a cult classic comedy group whose sketches eerily foresaw the Trump era 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z Short of smashing capitalism, leaving behind what isn't working could be a start. "Smash capitalism" to "release your job," what "Downton Abbey" & Beyoncé can teach us about progress 2022-06-28T04:00:00Z “James Brown believed in bootstrap economics, lift yourself up,” he says, “so the appeal of Richard Nixon, which was a total, total atrocity to me, but to James Brown it was black capitalism.” ‘Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown,’ on HBO 2014-10-26T04:00:00Z However, if standardized time was a fiction more or less driven by capitalism, it might be possible that atemporality is a fiction more or less driven by capitalism, as well. Living on Internet Time 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z Seeing the role that capitalism played and how the same thing that these Black and urban communities went through at this particular time is the same thing that's happening right now. Netflix's "Painkiller" puts a face on the "greedy evil" at the root of America's opioid crisis 2023-08-19T04:00:00Z In the rest of the world, where capitalism is exhibiting exactly the same kind of energies it did in early-19th-century Britain, the relevance of Marx's critique retains its potency. Karl Marx: a Nineteenth-Century Life by Jonathan Sperber – review 2013-06-26T07:00:04Z Inevitably, the programme spawned imitators, among them a Russian one, also airing tonight, which intriguingly spans the generation raised under communism but living amid capitalism. TV highlights 28/05/2012 2012-05-27T19:00:02Z In conclusion, he echoes Churchill’s words on democracy “capitalism is the worst form of economic management, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.” What’s the alternative? 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z “We were going to change sexual hierarchies, would end capitalism,” she told me on the phone. Coming Out, and Rising Up, in the Fifty Years After Stonewall 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z The violence of capitalism, Sutherland suggests, reduces both words and human beings to an indistinguishable commodified muck. A Radical Poet in the Age of Google and Guantánamo 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z Is this a frothy romantic comedy or a dark commentary on how capitalism absorbs its critiques? ‘You’ve Got Mail’ Is Secretly a Tragedy, Too 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z Even the most righteous souls cannot escape the snares of late capitalism. None of us are getting in The Good Place: NBC's comedy exposes the impossibility of virtue today 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z Juxtaposing flashbacks of familiar harm with blissful dancing in thrift store finds, Sycamore investigates the loneliness of late capitalism, wherein oppression is internalized as shame. Review | ‘The Freezer Door’ is an aching, playful memoir of vivid desire amid the desperation of midlife disconnection 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z But significant as it is for the treasury department to put her on capitalism’s flagship bill, money is static. In ‘Underground’ Delivering Justice Along With Escapist Entertainment 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z “There’s a very dreamlike quality, which is sort of nostalgic and yearning but also kind of cold and calculating, and that’s a film about capitalism and business,” Blakeson said of “Risky Business.” ‘Jackie Brown’ and Tangerine Dream: What ‘I Care a Lot’ Is Made Of 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z In that system’s formative phases, the state has regularly used its coercive powers of taxation, expropriation and in this case incarceration to free up natural and human resources lying outside the orbit of capitalism proper. Why Etan Patz still haunts us 2012-05-25T18:00:00Z It's not surprising that the two tracks or paths that the author describes — McKinley and unbuttoned capitalism, Czolgosz and violent political radicalism — converged. 'The President and the Assassin': when ruthless capitalism and radical anarchy collided 2011-06-09T20:09:05Z I am reminded of the oft-quoted remark from literary theorist Frederic Jameson, who quipped that it is easier to imagine the end of the world than it is to imagine the end of capitalism. Why can't sci-fi and fantasy imagine alternatives to capitalism or feudalism? 2022-02-19T05:00:00Z A similar attempt was made to connect the play to that "larger crisis in capitalism." Reader reviews: your take on Timon of Athens and Metamorphosis Titian 2012 2012-07-20T14:00:00Z After all, the white-led wellness industry of the west is a modern extension of colonial capitalism in itself. “Nine Perfect Strangers” and the orientalist displays of the western wellness industry 2021-08-22T04:00:00Z As China turned increasingly to capitalism, art became one way to look progressive, and Mr. Ai’s star began to rise, both at home and abroad. Art Review: Ai Weiwei Survey in Washington 2012-10-11T22:29:26Z “For so many people, bell hooks was their first introduction to social theory, critiques of patriarchy, white supremacy and capitalism.” The Wide-Angle Vision, and Legacy, of bell hooks 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z It also builds to an intense pitch — while highlighting several fundamental issues of capitalism. It's game time for the history of Monopoly 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z Private concerns weren’t interested in providing public goods, rightly so, because, as McChesney says: This situation results not necessarily from a conspiracy, but rather from the quite visible, unabashed logic of capitalism itself. When capitalism consumed the Internet 2013-01-03T19:00:00Z Viewers seeking an ideologically reassuring ending — about the depredations of capitalism, the value of sisterhood or the glories of the free market — are likely to be frustrated, even shocked. Review: In ‘Equity,’ No Room for Sisterhood Amid Gloves-Off Wall Street Warfare 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z And in “Coal Country” — produced, like “The Line,” by the Public Theater — the families of men who died in the Upper Big Branch mine disaster in 2010 paint a picture of capitalism gone wild. Review: Covid Responders Have Their Harrowing Say in ‘The Line’ 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z A sequel on how capitalism was tamed in the next four decades would be most welcome. Books of The Times: How Economic Brawn Transformed a Nation 2010-11-19T07:00:00Z “When I read things like the foundations of capitalism are shattering, I’m like, maybe we need that,” he said. The Comic Louis C. K. Has a New Show on FX 2010-06-18T16:28:00Z The ascendancy of neoliberalism in the 1970s, she says, laid the groundwork for Silicon Valley to promote an extreme form of entrepreneurial capitalism, unencumbered by any substantive responsibility to the communities it purports to serve. O.K., Google: How Much Money Have I Made for You Today? 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z Happiness or contentment or fulfillment — if you don't look at it as a prize to win then there's really nothing that capitalism can sell you to make you want to buy it. “No One Tells You This”: That single women aren’t a problem for marriage and kids to fix 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z Reséndez doesn’t spare the reader the shock of seeing a whole system of settlement, colonialism and capitalism that was built around the institution of the enslavement of Indians. The new book 'The Other Slavery' will make you rethink American history 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z But it is also a brilliant portrayal of what's wrong with rentier capitalism. Flickonomics: eight movies that teach us how money works 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z Harrod sums up Cardew's life as a critique of modern consumer capitalism, a series of romantic refusals, a plea for irrationality. The Last Sane Man by Tanya Harrod – review 2013-04-12T08:59:01Z It was an organic element in a disease complex that included capitalism, colonialism and militarism. 50 Years After Dr. King’s Death, New Lessons for Today 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z Implicit in Amis’s assertion is the assumption that capitalism works because it conforms to human nature. Letters to the Editor 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z A brief flash forward to an international conference on crisis in capitalism, where urban warriors are beating at the doors of the powerful, provides a nimble satire on economic pundits and global grandees. Peter and Alice; The Low Road – review 2013-03-31T00:05:46Z It's clear that running ourselves into the ground doesn't work, either for the forces of late stage capitalism or our basic human nature. We should all be lunching like Europeans — it's better for your mind and body 2023-08-26T04:00:00Z So that got us talking about capitalism and its inevitable destruction. Date Lab: Shared philosophies, but what about chemistry? 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z But if American capitalism is entering a crisis zone, Britain will not have the luxury of forging a new economic model; it will have trouble just staying afloat. Ralph Miliband and sons 2010-09-06T07:00:00Z As a multimedia artist Irving adeptly wrangles with the too-muchness of contemporary experience — of injustice, violence, inequality and insatiable capitalism — creating new constellations for representing a library’s worth of information that might otherwise go unrecorded. Kahlil Robert Irving Roves Across Millenniums at MoMA 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z “I wish I owned Marvel, as someone that believes in capitalism,” he awkwardly added. Jeb Bush, icky and awkward: Jokes that Supergirl “looks pretty hot” 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z Ms. Newman wants to impress upon her children, too, that capitalism is failing the poor, and that the word Eskimo “might be problematic for Aleutian, Inuit, and Yupik people.” Review: ‘Catastrophic Happiness,’ a Comedy of Manners About Bumpy Child-Rearing 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z Or is it a parable about the pervasive rot of global capitalism and the decay of long-revered institutions? The FIFA corruption sideshow: Takedown of 1 percent crooks or strategic move against Putin? 2015-05-30T04:00:00Z Often you will hear people talking about why drugs are expensive: it’s the greedy pharmaceutical companies, the patent system, the government, capitalism itself. Why prescription drugs are so expensive 2014-01-07T13:15:00Z Rather than controlling or reshaping capitalism, a Miliband government would find itself struggling to preserve Britain's social democratic inheritance in the face of capitalism's renewed disorder. Ralph Miliband and sons 2010-09-06T07:00:00Z Monumental in its scale and scope, Mehretu’s Whitney show explores recurring themes such as capitalism, globalism and displacement, drawing on layers of visual images, a lexicon of hieroglyphics and ancient city maps. Julie Mehretu’s Reckoning With Success 2021-03-21T04:00:00Z Admittedly these are the choices typical of decadent westerners in the era of late capitalism, but that thought doesn’t make the burden of choice any easier to bear. Why too much choice is stressing us out 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z Some hit their number and some went bust, but Silicon Valley is more than ever a showcase for the unfettered capitalism of 2019. Why Don’t Rich People Just Stop Working? 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z “That they appear irrelevant to American historians, aberrant to contemporary evangelicals and abhorrent to the average consumerist is a signature of the victory capitalism has achieved over the American religious imagination,” he writes. A Tour Through the ‘American Messiahs’ of Our Past 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z One of the things that was so remarkable about the Occupy movement was that it succeeded instantly just by giving capitalism back its name. Novelist Jonathan Lethem: "There is no allegory crude enough" to capture Trump's America 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z I feel like capitalism has a way of shaping the way that we see ourselves because we're being sold an idea. "True equality is embracing mediocrity": Aparna Nancherla on imposter syndrome and fear of failure 2023-10-01T04:00:00Z Before there was big capitalism, human beings made things and traded things. How to Talk to Your Kids About All That Stuff They Want 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z Ever imagine what happens to a society that never quite makes it beyond late capitalism? "The Expanse" shows the dangers of treating extremism as a joke 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z In Please Give too, capitalism lies at the core of the prevailing moral confusion. Please Give warns the well-off they can never be good 2010-06-21T10:44:00Z But capitalism, he argued, did not happen spontaneously. 25 Great Books by Refugees in America 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z Does capitalism, for example, provide us with the tools to solve a complex problem like climate change? Why can't sci-fi and fantasy imagine alternatives to capitalism or feudalism? 2022-02-19T05:00:00Z Instead there is the crude suggestion that extremes such as capitalism and religious fanaticism are mirror images – but The Reluctant Fundamentalist relies completely on those extremes to manufacture drama. A Hijacking and The Reluctant Fundamentalist announce a new narrative order 2013-05-15T12:47:25Z As Marxists put it, capitalism developed the urge to "annihilate space with time". All the road rage: Fast & Furious 6 taps a modern vein 2013-05-20T13:40:02Z He made his name with his antic short stories — fables, really — thronged with suicides, amputations, broken men: “the malformed detritus of capitalism, the necessary cost of doing business.” George Saunders Conducts a Cheery Class on Fiction’s Possibilities 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z If I benefit from capitalism does that mean I have to accept all of its ills or not try to do something different.? The Real Burning Man 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z It is also a brilliant, piercing examination of the way capitalism forces black Americans to choose between being their authentic selves and the people that corporate America wants them to be. The Most Important Decade for Movies About Black Lives 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z His satirical passages on academia and its unholy union with capitalism ring only too true. Mack the Knife, Now a Transgender Hero of London’s Riotous Underground 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z O Magazine implicitly, and sometimes explicitly, identifies a range of problems in neoliberal capitalism and suggests ways for readers to adapt themselves to mitigate or overcome these problems. Oprah Winfrey: one of the world's best neoliberal capitalist thinkers 2015-05-09T04:00:00Z Being a woman under late capitalism is confusing to begin with. Selling my eggs to make rent 2013-02-03T18:00:00Z Over the course of the exhibition, objects will be continuously restocked in a nod to capitalism’s ebbs and flows. Datebook: Marisa Merz at the Hammer, artists at Mt. Wilson, the color of art, a sanctuary installation 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z In the book, Hammond was a fiendish Frankenstein of capitalism, whose scientists had revived dinosaur species to stock his crackpot-genius idea of a prehistoric theme park. Remembering Richard Attenborough, the Man Behind Gandhi 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z To the left, it was a tale of working-class lives destroyed by capitalism; to the right, it was a movie about a country waiting to be Made Great Again. Under fire: how cinema's new breed of cowboys are taking aim at the old west 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z By the time her movie ends, Ms. DuVernay has delivered a stirring treatise on the prison industrial complex through a nexus of racism, capitalism, policies and politics. Review: ‘13TH,’ the Journey From Shackles to Prison Bars 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z Perhaps paradoxically, corporate capitalism allowed for the premiere tour of the Mikhailovsky Ballet in the U.S. and its reconstruction of the ballet. 'Flames of Paris' blazes anew with Mikhailovsky Ballet at Segerstrom 2014-11-22T05:00:00Z They took notes on how to replicate the drumbeat of industrial capitalism, except without the capitalists. Even one of Trump’s favorite foods has a hidden Russia connection 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z According to Zuboff, surveillance capitalism distinguishes itself from its industrial forebear as “a new economic order that claims human experience as a free source of raw material.” How Tech Companies Manipulate Our Personal Data 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z It’s fitting that one of the funniest movies of the year is also a Hitchcockian thriller about the dehumanizing effects of capitalism. The Best Jokes of 2019 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z Brown uses testimony from an official inquiry and her own interviews with survivors to recreate the sealers’ apocalyptic suffering, and calls out a feudal version of capitalism that makes Charles Dickens’s London seem quaint. Read Your Way Through Newfoundland 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z You address issues of capitalism, privacy, EU sovereignty, immigrants, and more. "France" director Bruno Dumont on Léa Seydoux, digital media and how the "fake can generate truth" 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z Rather than a rueful tragedy, it is — so far — a Horatio Alger tale of aspirational capitalism, one that adds systemic racism and automatic weapons to the barriers facing the hero. ‘Snowfall’ Review: To Live, Love and Die in 1980s L.A. 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z A restive talent who toggles between big-studio and low-budget work, he has a genius for wrapping tricky ideas, like capitalism and its discontents, into commercial packages. Movie Review: ‘Magic Mike,’ by Steven Soderbergh, With Channing Tatum 2012-06-28T21:57:03Z Eugene O’Neill’s Expressionist drama “The Hairy Ape” tells the story of a nondescript man overrun by industrial capitalism’s demands on workers in 1920s New York. Jimmy Fallon Has Some Ideas for Trump’s Next Book 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z Rifkin argues that all this convergence will lead to a new era of “social capitalism” in which “the market is a guardian angel looking over humanity.” Is the Green New Deal Realistic? Two Sympathetic Authors Weigh In 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z The game, which was originally conceived as an antidote to pervasive capitalism, was first published in its current form by Parker Brothers during the Great Depression. Monopoly fans: You can vote on the next generation of game tokens 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z A lifelong Marxist, he never doubted that the future would be shaped by the struggle against capitalism. Ralph Miliband and sons 2010-09-06T07:00:00Z Inside, you might see a simulation of the world after the fall of capitalism, or a site-specific Dada collage accessed through a long, dark hallway. Hidden Gems of Europe 2012-10-12T20:14:25Z The real evils, to a greater extent than in the book, are capitalism and empire, as Sumner eventually finds that a British shipping office holds even greater dangers than the Arctic. Review: In ‘The North Water,’ There’s Blood on the Ice 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z In this cacophony of capitalism, Mr. Berggruen is trying to help connect these spheres. At the World Economic Forum in Davos, ‘Sustainability,’ ‘Mindfulness’ and Cocktails 2014-01-24T22:19:50Z Sebald is too delicate, too oblique to explicitly link the silkworm to terms such as capitalism, globalization, modernity, totalitarianism, historical trauma, or, finally, genocide. Baudelaire makes a comeback 2013-02-04T19:15:00Z The host is “not interested in visitors who might interrogate the hegemonic dogmas of corporate capitalism.” Jon Stewart, capitalist stooge? 2012-07-25T21:00:00Z Under surveillance capitalism, we are alienated not just through the way we are forced to express our labor but through the way we are asked to express our lives. Our Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2019 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z Having felt that abyss, I basically said, ‘O.K., capitalism, I have seen your gaping maw, and I want no trouble with you.’ George Saunders Has Written the Best Book You’ll Read This Year 2013-01-06T19:57:18Z As capitalism sinks into stagnation, corporations have realised that there are two new growth strands – firstly, in the emerging singles market and secondly in encouraging divorce and the concept of individual freedom. Ewan Morrison: what I'm thinking about ... why capitalism wants us to stay single 2012-08-11T12:01:34Z She thinks she can recapture her romantic innocence, and he flatters himself into believing that late capitalism craves its own poet laureate. How novels came to terms with the internet 2011-01-15T00:06:06Z Gaddis countered that capitalism was just one part of a conflict that included domestic politics, Marxist ideology and the personalities of Stalin, Mao and other leaders. Cold War historian finishes epic on George Kennan 2012-04-19T17:08:13Z We see it in the surrounding industrial milieu, not particularly bleak but removed from the life of the city, despite the up-to-date office interior; this mode of capitalism is obsolete. Four years later, “Breaking Bad” remains the boldest indictment of modern American capitalism in TV history 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z “I like seeing comments like, ‘She used capitalism to get where she is,’ because it does make me think about my own place,” she continued. Marina’s Music Was Caught Between Worlds. Now She’s Making Her Own. 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z “Now, after sort of listening yesterday and also today, particularly today, I developed more respect about capitalism,” the Dalai Lama said after a question from Brooks about protecting individual property rights. Gentrifying the dharma: How the 1% is hijacking mindfulness 2014-03-05T15:29:00Z Drawing on his virtuoso knowledge of historical economic statistics, he demonstrated something close to an iron law of capitalism. Thomas Piketty: The Making of a Socialist 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z It draws heavily from technology in its pieces, with plenty of video game references and an inevitable tongue-in-cheek critique of capitalism. Conquering High-Priced Shanghai, From Dumplings to Modern Art 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z Klein is a Canadian journalist and activist whose previous books include sharp, well-reported critiques of corporations and capitalism. Is the Green New Deal Realistic? Two Sympathetic Authors Weigh In 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z And America, academia, liberalism, capitalism, and extremism frowns on ignorance. Wild myths I believed about white people: Notes on race, American ignorance and the Capitol riots 2021-02-21T05:00:00Z I think capitalism plays a part in that. Photographer Clare Gallagher's best shot 2012-02-08T22:30:00Z He sums up the Chinese city’s 1930s essence in one doozy of a sentence: “Unlimited venture capitalism rode in gaudy style down streets lined with beggars showing off their sores and wounds.” ‘Miracles of Life’: J.G. Ballard tells his own story 2013-02-28T00:08:09Z As the late Ursula K. Le Guin once said, “We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.” What We’re Reading This Summer 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z They represented both capitalism’s exploitative evils and its by-your-bootstraps charms; child labor and free speech; the freshness of pears and the kick of plug tobacco. Disney?s ?Newsies the Musical? Comes to Broadway 2012-03-02T18:00:09Z A dystopian screed against misogyny and capitalism unfurls against the backdrop of plastic seas and furry sunsets, but “S He” isn’t merely an exercise in symbolism. Five International Movies to Stream Right Now 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z A nod to the times, and to the latest crisis of capitalism. If The Apprentice is capitalism, bring on the revolution 2010-10-07T13:30:00Z We’re all cynics jaded about capitalism’s false promises to unite us through commerce. Food for thought: will an era of hyper-personalized meals leave a sour taste? 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z “It’s an indictment of how capitalism crushes creativity — how capitalism uses whatever we do to support what it’s doing,” Riley explains. Boots Riley’s career of confronting capitalism finally hits the big screen with ‘Sorry to Bother You’ 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z At times, Harris seems to acknowledge that some developments that have taken place under capitalism, such as F.D.R.’s New Deal, are actually better than others. Can One City Be a Microcosm of Everything That’s Wrong? 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z “Empire of Cotton: A Global History,” by Sven Beckert, a Harvard history professor, due out this year, looks at global capitalism through the lens of the history of cotton. 'The Half Has Never Been Told' Follows the Money of Slavery 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z Differences between capitalism and communism would have been harmoniously reconciled, creating a new, unified global order based on equality, cooperation and a five–tone jingle. Can you imagine a world without Star Wars, Harry Potter or Oasis? 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z In a 2012 polemic, “Lying It All Away,” Le Guin writes scathingly of “growth capitalism” returning to its origins and “providing security for none but the strongest profiteers.” What we can learn from two literary masters: Ursula K. Le Guin and James Salter 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z Bradbury broke through in 1950 with “The Martian Chronicles,” a series of intertwined stories that satirized capitalism, racism and superpower tensions as it portrayed Earth colonizers destroying an idyllic Martian civilization. ‘Fahrenheit 451′ Author Ray Bradbury Dies at 91 2012-06-06T14:50:36Z Stewart is much more generous and even perhaps — shockingly — interested in hearing opposing points of view, which apparently reinforces the hegemonic dogmas of corporate capitalism. Jon Stewart, capitalist stooge? 2012-07-25T21:00:00Z It's about a word that I don't believe appears in your film, that word being “capitalism.” "We've got a Marvel movie here": Stephen Gyllenhaal reframes the not-for-profit battle for justice 2023-10-29T04:00:00Z With tongue loosely in cheek, we tell him that our talk is going to detail our plan to recruit more people to engage in Yes Men style guerrilla antics to help smash free market capitalism. TED: Even more elitist than we thought 2012-05-18T12:40:00Z Many of the new generation of big givers come out of a highly entrepreneurial business world, and are disinclined to back groups that challenge how capitalism operates. How philanthropy benefits the super-rich 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z With no real emotions, he becomes the perfect hit man for a corporation that will do anything to ensure order in a dystopian future where people are under constant surveillance and ruthless capitalism reigns. Three sci-fi books to rattle your October The combination of tragedy and capitalism suggested some interesting possibilities. At DKNY, Calvin Klein and Ralph Lauren, Coming Full Circle 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z Jennifer Miller plays ringmistress of their latest free spectacle, in which seven performers try to save the city from “the pit of big box capitalism” while a five-member band plays on. Theater Listings for Sept. 5-11 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z But the book has virtually no Obatas, and that selection bias, clearly driven by Harris’s conviction that “positive” stories are simply window-dressing concealing capitalism’s dark reality, severely damages its credibility. Can One City Be a Microcosm of Everything That’s Wrong? 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z Surveillance capitalism depends on the constant gathering of “behavioral surplus,” or the data exhaust that we produce as part of the normal course of web browsing, app use and digital consumption. How Tech Companies Manipulate Our Personal Data 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z Still, Affleck clearly hopes to provide not mere entertainment, but a critique of US capitalism – and in so doing illuminates the essential hypocrisy of the gangster genre. Live by Night: how the gangster film went from top of the world to sleeping with the fishes 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z Absolutely, and I feel like some of what you've mentioned is because of late-stage capitalism, which is what you talk about in your book. "True equality is embracing mediocrity": Aparna Nancherla on imposter syndrome and fear of failure 2023-10-01T04:00:00Z "The hit mentality is the expression in show business of the increasing hegemony of capitalism," he said. Tonys 2015: Meet the biggest hit maker on Broadway 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z “I could explore the world in a different way, that’s not tied to these terrible systems of capitalism and institutional racism.” Colson Whitehead Reinvents Himself, Again 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z With regard to those who write about mindful politics, Jeff Wilson noted: “Most mindfulness authors pin their hopes on a mindful capitalism as sufficient to bring about the kinder, wiser society they envision.” How capitalism captured the mindfulness industry 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z They spoke of their companies’ modest beginnings, of achieving the American Dream and of the unique wonders of capitalism. Perspective | Tech titans gave their House testimony virtually. But it was the congressmen who departed from reality. 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z It’s an appealing David and Goliath setup that uses laughs, white racism and black righteousness to soft-sell a tale of inequality, heroic capitalism and eye-drooping mathematics. ‘The Banker’ Review: Wheeling and Dealing Toward Equality 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z It's nature versus capitalism, the pervading battle of our contemporary age. "Avatar: The Way of the Water": Tired climate clichés distract from James Cameron’s vision 2022-12-17T05:00:00Z If he thought about such questions at all, he perceived “capitalism” and “socialism” as interchangeable masks for systems of domination that are simultaneously sinister and fragile. Depravity, class war and the 1 percent: Tom Hiddleston shines in brilliant dystopian fable “High-Rise” 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z Watching movies like "Double Indemnity," "Easy Rider" and "Office Space," you might think Americans had never heard of the Protestant work ethic – the spirit of sacrifice and delayed gratification that helped build capitalism. The anti-work movement in "Clerks," "Modern Times" & other films 2022-10-15T04:00:00Z There’s another hitch: Because the stock market is both an engine of American capitalism and responsible in many cases for heirs’ massive individual wealth, few want anything to do with it. The Rich Kids Who Want to Tear Down Capitalism 2020-11-27T05:00:00Z Perhaps there is a little bit of the Joker in all of us who live under the cruel logic of neoliberalism and gangster capitalism. "Joker": A harsh indictment of neoliberalism and gangster capitalism 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z The rise of B corporations is a reminder that the idea that corporations should be only lean, mean, profit-maximizing machines isn’t dictated by the inherent nature of capitalism, let alone human nature. Wall Street 4 - Public Service 0 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z Late-stage capitalism sits in these colourful octagonal plates, smiling its thin grin. Declutter so you can reclutter – Kondo has a new master plan 2019-12-01T05:00:00Z His art is about besting capitalism — from within. Can Virgil Abloh Fit in a Museum? 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z The slimy gears of techno capitalism did the rest. I Found My Girlfriend’s Sex Tape Online. Should I Tell Her? 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z On the contrary, unrestrained capitalism that ignores the rules of fair play in employment destroys its own customer. Low-paid Britain: 'People have had enough. It's soul destroying' 2014-08-30T04:00:00Z We behave as if capitalism itself were “nailed to the roof of heaven,” he writes, and few dare to question its assumptions. The Story of Appalachia, With Plenty of Villains 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z Their contrasting designs suggest assorted solutions for the same problem, a tiny bit of capitalism in action. This Jewish Museum Is Giving Away Art. You Get What You Pay For. 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z At the bank, the Living handed out Monopoly money to ceremoniously burn, representing our rejection of the commodity-driven financial culture of capitalism. Oskar Eustis: The First Time I Burned Money (and Found My Calling) 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z The octopus — once depicted as an unnatural figure of centralization and greed — has become a metaphor for creative resistance to technology, modernity and capitalism? Put an octopus on it! 2012-07-05T00:00:00Z Compared to the 19th century’s Gilded Age, we’re sleepwalking; back then, a suspicion of the way unbridled capitalism distributed the spoils was widespread, across class and region. 2015 was a banner year for nonfiction — here are 10 books you don’t want to miss 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z Trade may be instinctive, but the institutions of capitalism are a product of social evolution. A grand tour 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z Ypi’s memoir, about growing up as Albania transitioned from totalitarian communism to liberal capitalism, is packed with insights on family as much as politics. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z This ambivalence kept him from leaping headlong into the movement, but it also mirrored the urban proletariat’s love-hate relationship with a laissez-faire capitalism that rewards and celebrates those who obtain wealth by any means necessary. The Fires That Forged Iceberg Slim 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z The authors’ intention is clearly to satirize the underinformed internationalism of postwar America: Adams’s faith in capital and capitalism leads her to attempt to solve cash-strapped Lichtenburg’s problems by poulticing them with dollar bills. Review: Without Ethel Merman, a Limp ‘Call Me Madam’ at Encores! 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z Lee describes Fitzgerald as “a fan of Karl Marx,” and writes that “Gatsby” remains “a modern novel by exploring the intersection of social hierarchy, white femininity, white male love and unfettered capitalism.” Nearly a Century Later, We’re Still Reading — and Changing Our Minds About — Gatsby 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z Although this isn't the first time Don has struggled with the unyielding pressure to sell his soul to the devils of capitalism, this may be his most obvious misstep yet. "Mad Men" recap: Who is Don Draper? 2010-07-26T06:02:00Z Filled to the janky rafters with a half-century of capitalism’s castoffs, it suggests the ruined brain of an addled man or the ruined conscience of a country. Review: In ‘American Buffalo,’ Grift Is the Coin of the Realm 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z "That impossible marriage between capitalism and the frontier." TEAM's Mission Drift: The money markets are in meltdown. Send for Elvis 2011-08-07T21:31:01Z In the film, you describe people’s belief in the benefits of capitalism as a kind of “religion”, adding that what we have is only an illusion of capitalism in any case. Noam Chomsky on Donald Trump: 'Almost a death knell for the human species' 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z Claveloux takes pleasure in violating the familiar and many of these stories sneer at the stunted, insulting rituals of capitalism. Psychedelic Comics Like Beautiful Tattoos 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z “This film is about the Achilles’ heel of capitalism,” Terry Jones says at the opening of “Boom Bust Boom.” Review: ‘Boom Bust Boom,’ a Pythonesque Look at Financial Crashes 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z Owen’s dealings with the shipping company introduce some hefty topics — capitalism, nepotism, corruption, democracy — that vibrate throughout the story without ever developing into an argument. Review: ‘In the Heart of the Sea,’ It’s Man vs. Leviathan 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z Despite the story’s silly words and jingly rhymes, its thesis is sobering and clear: Unbridled capitalism will destroy the Earth. Perspective | Is Dr. Seuss’s Lorax real? These professors may have solved a 47-year-old mystery. 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z Fifteen years later, the house that capitalism built looks rather shabby. An Economist Who Believes Only Government Can Save Capitalism 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z Saadia looks at the causes and effects, exploring issues like free riding, labor, psychology, automation, and even the little bits of capitalism that exist in its mostly post-capitalist world. Is a “Star Trek” future possible? “You can have anything you want at any time, anywhere, on demand” 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z Think of Big Brother and the surveillance state, the Handmaids and Christian misogyny, or the titular “Squid Game” and the violent contest of capitalism. A Dystopian Fable About the Unshakable Borders of Class 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z They had a commitment to ideals that were distinct from people that were more commercially minded, so hip capitalism was one of their targets. What can we learn from 1967’s Summer of Love to help us through our current political nightmare? 2017-08-13T04:00:00Z Soon, he told the assembled Cubans and Egyptians and East Germans and Mongolians and Vietnamese, Soviet citizens would enjoy products "considerably higher in quality than the best productions of capitalism". Red star rising 2010-08-06T23:04:00Z Through brief essays composed of anecdotes, mini-histories and cultural criticism, Biss explores the contradictions of capitalism from within its clutch, meditating on the twisted individual experience of class and money in America. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z The civilization exported by industrial capitalism was not so civilizing. Artists Reveal a Dark Side of the Bourse’s Crowning Glory 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z But Harris quickly returns to denying that capitalism can reform itself, and that only by ending it can we achieve justice. Can One City Be a Microcosm of Everything That’s Wrong? 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z Redefining marriage not only causes recessions but undermines the entire edifice of capitalism. 6 most absurd things the Christian right has blamed on gays 2014-04-11T12:15:00Z Both writers, in telling their different life stories, provide us with extreme spectacles of women in capitalism—instructive and cautionary in equal measure. Memoirs of Addiction and Ambition by Cat Marnell and Julia Phillips 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z Charter schools and disaster capitalism Topics: , , , Charter schools, Free Market, , In public policy circles, crises are called “focusing events” — bringing to light a particular failing in government policy. Charter schools and disaster capitalism 2013-02-24T13:00:00Z “An Eviction,” made in 1988, shows one of the persistent and most terrifying failures of capitalism: housing insecurity. Review | In Jeff Wall’s photographs, it’s all about the details. But are they important? 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z Love is an emotion that alone is not capable of destroying capitalism, of dismantling centuries of systems that remain in place today. The Empty Gesture of Red Carpet Protest 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z The book is a psychedelic epic about climate change and forever war; capitalism and surveillance; gun violence and police brutality; fascism and genocide; diaspora, mental illness, gender, and the occult. The Apocalyptic Visions of Ariana Reines 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z It has been a nihilistic journey global capitalism has taken from Ground Zero to the present day. Photography's bodies of evidence | John Perivolaris 2010-04-04T14:00:00Z You think we're of a space right now with music where there's too much focus on capitalism? As hip-hop turns 50, Chuck D praises its power as "a worldwide cultural experience and religion" 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z Gu’s film “doesn’t quite manage to connect the dots between Ngoy’s financial troubles and the voracious capitalism that enabled his rise,” Devika Girish wrote in her review for The New York Times. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Oslo’ and Specials Honoring George Floyd 2021-05-24T04:00:00Z The relationship between democracy and capitalism is a subject of endless debate among historians and economists. What I Learned About Democracy From the Movies 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z They grew up in the eternal present of late capitalism, with no one encouraging them to envision any kind of future. Wu Ming's top 10 utopias 2013-05-29T12:00:01Z Thus the message of musicals: Democracy is a lie, capitalism is flawed, so forget that sunset, kids. Show me the money: La La Land and the loving lap of capitalism 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z Controversy never drifts too far from Wall Street but recently the issues have been more about art and less about capitalism. “Fearless Girl” statue peed on by dog statue in front of bull statue 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z This scourge of capitalism — as the engine of slavery, as a shaper of Black art and identity — is what the two characters in “Tambo & Bones” must grapple with. Review: In ‘Tambo & Bones,’ a Minstrel’s Guide to Making Money 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z Thus I would put it the other way around: Empire was the foundation of cotton capitalism, with warfare being one of its instruments. ‘Empire of Cotton,’ by Sven Beckert 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z But he also heard it was about “a critique of capitalism.” ‘Magic Mike,’ With Channing Tatum, Draws Gay Men 2012-07-04T12:00:00Z Downey calls the film "a really nice, long intermission between outright capitalism." Robert Downey Jr. drops superhero mask, has new mission in 'The Judge' 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z What’s unsettling is which people in this saga of capitalism we see portrayed, which people the play helps us to imagine clearly and which people we are asked to imagine vaguely or not at all. Review: In ‘The Lehman Trilogy,’ a Vivid Tale of Profit and Pain 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z At 11, sitting under a tree, a neighborhood friend explained to her that there were three ways of organizing society: capitalism, socialism and communism. Barbara Dane’s Life of Defiance and Song 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z Rutherford & Son, a tale of family divisions, capitalism and feminism, is directed by Jonathan Miller at the Viaduct theatre in Halifax. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2013-02-01T16:28:58Z Black Emperor, “monumental” holds a mirror up to capitalism and sees cruelty and discontent. Review: Setting a Squadron of Joyless Worker Drones to Music 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z How did green energy leadership transform, the film asks, from those who resisted capitalism to those who collaborated with it? Why "Planet of the Humans," Michael Moore’s new film about green energy, is so controversial 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z Perhaps most frighteningly, at the intersection of technology, power and capitalism Bezos seemingly answers to no one — certainly not to the people or his workers, making him an unelected, untouchable, unaccountable corporate god of sorts. Jeff Bezos' divorce drama and those awful sexts: Why we can't look away 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z It contains a clever demonstration of capitalism and a shrewd central irony: the philanthropists are the exploited workforce, because it is they who keep the rich in their big houses. Spur of the Moment; Pygmalion; The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist; The Magical Menagerie 2010-07-24T23:06:00Z That autism explodes the conventional American nuclear family narrative makes it irresistible as a metaphor for the stresses of life under late-stage capitalism. The Trouble With Autism in Novels 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z They are the first generation in the US since the Cold War who view socialism more favorably than capitalism. “Sorry to Bother You” exposes the danger of bourgeois integration 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z In fact, the blood treatment market itself is becoming increasingly saturated, as late-stage capitalism moves into its banter phase, and the super-rich tire even of metaphor. Why Victoria Beckham's quest for eternal youth pales beside the stars who are after your blood 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z Basically, Judgement House uses the framework of capitalism as a model for spiritual life: manufacture fear of Hell, then sell salvation as the way to get to Heaven. My night in Judgement House, the church play about hell that made me a teenage born-again zealot 2021-02-28T05:00:00Z “Breaking Bad” represents the stage where the human mind has been completely absorbed by capitalism’s logic, and forays into romanticism cannot but be absurd appendages to the overwhelming movement of capitalist destruction. Four years later, “Breaking Bad” remains the boldest indictment of modern American capitalism in TV history 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z On the other hand, I think there's a risk in assuming, as neoliberals and free marketeers do, that there's only one type of capitalism. From Marx to the Milibands 2011-01-16T00:04:08Z It can sometimes come dangerously close to the old Wonder Showzen Hot Dog Factory sketch, where kids narrate footage of meat production by remarking "Delicious murder" and "That's the dark nature of capitalism". Man V Food: Adam Richman spills the beans 2012-06-15T23:05:00Z In the United States, the fossil-fuel industry and its Republican lackeys picked away at a handful of loose scientific threads in the film, depicting it as some partisan, puritanical attack on capitalism, consumerism and prosperity. It’s too late to halt climate change and our society is doomed — but wait, that’s the good news 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z It is a slow, dirty war, steeped in American traditions of racism and capitalism. Gentrification’s insidious violence: The truth about American cities 2014-04-08T18:34:00Z The last 30 years hasn’t just moved men in a different direction, but also altered capitalism, too. Metrosexual, hipster, spornosexual: Why do we keep redefining men? 2017-05-13T04:00:00Z The more recent growth of anti-Semitism points to the increasing failures of neoliberalist capitalism. Letters to the Editor 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z It’s an effective allegory of unfettered capitalism as a rigged and failing game. "On Becoming a God in Central Florida" exposes unfettered capitalism as a rigged and failing game 2019-08-25T04:00:00Z If economic success is winning communist China a piece of that pie, well, put that down to capitalism's market forces. Why Hollywood kowtows to China 2013-03-11T14:24:26Z To think that you can work in an industry and somehow change it, that's a naive view of how capitalism works. Can sex films empower women? 2011-03-05T09:00:01Z The only way to understand these characters is as functionaries within the evolving modes of capitalism. Four years later, “Breaking Bad” remains the boldest indictment of modern American capitalism in TV history 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z A recent mall development nearby is promising new money to the neglected shopping district, but her posters suggest capitalism is an empty dream. Artist of the week 126: Laura Oldfield Ford 2011-02-18T13:09:32Z Nearby, Gabriele Stötzer’s works made of recycled consumer packaging are a response to the transition from communism to capitalism in the former East Germany. Did Someone With a Trust Fund Paint This? 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z Each season concerns itself with a dominant mode of capitalism; the motifs, colors, sounds and the whole organization of the visual field emphasize the qualities of that particular mode. Four years later, “Breaking Bad” remains the boldest indictment of modern American capitalism in TV history 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z They set out to confound and resist not only the excesses of bourgeois capitalism but also the tyranny of modernism's urban agenda. Grand plans: how the simple planning diagram has shaped our cities 2012-11-22T15:24:06Z She cites the move in recent years toward more laissez-faire capitalism, the rise of the 24-hour news cycle, the emergence of social media and a shift in power toward corporations and wealthy philanthropists. Dambisa Moyo’s Proposals for Saving Democracy 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z On a more in-depth level, I witnessed a lifestyle of old tribal traditions that was slowly integrating modern-day capitalism and global connectedness. Among the native tribes in the Amazon Jungle It comments on capitalism and intellectual property while being an absolutely wild ride. Visit These Science-Fiction Worlds to Make Sense of Our Own 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z In my father’s capitalism, employees were nurtured by their company and encouraged to learn new skills. Jeff Bezos relies on lowly grunts like me: Life as a cog in the Amazon machine 2015-03-07T05:00:00Z How capitalism, socialism, evolution and liberal democracy broke decisively with the past. 100 Notable Books of 2015 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z There was morality before the church, trade before the state, exchange before money, social contracts before Hobbes, welfare before the rights of man, culture before Babylon, self-interest before Adam Smith, and greed before capitalism. Atheism’s radical new heroes: Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris and an evolving new moral view 2014-03-02T17:00:00Z The book, a paean to integrity, good humor and warmth in the name of amicable capitalism, is as wholesome as a Norman Rockwell painting. Books Of the Times: Dale Carnegie and Emily Post for the Twitter Age 2011-10-05T05:14:23Z “Of course, there are those in black life who will contend that Jay’s success is little more than a black face on capitalism, the vicious consequences of which have often ruined black life,” he writes. Review | In Michael Eric Dyson’s new book, Jay-Z is the living embodiment of American ideals 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z If this sounds like a contemporary ghost story about capitalism and orientalism, it is — which also makes it the perfect starting point for Lap-See Lam’s “Tales of the Altersea,” her first U.S. solo show. What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in August 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z In the age of identity capitalism and surveillance society, the determination to remain anonymous is an act of resistance against the knowing gaze of both corporations and the police. Julian Assange’s latest wake-up call 2013-04-30T17:42:00Z In the first, we find capitalism unbound, in all its rapacity. To appreciate the ‘Masterworks’ of Paul Thomas Anderson, here are 5 essential movies of his to watch 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z If there were ever a programme designed to show the intrinsic nastiness of capitalism, this was it. If The Apprentice is capitalism, bring on the revolution 2010-10-07T13:30:00Z By the end of his life, Hitchens was convinced that American capitalism was "the only revolution in town", and that it would be "a step up" for the countries exposed to it by armed occupation. Christopher Hitchens: from socialist to neocon 2013-01-18T13:01:01Z About 550 students learn subjects ranging from capitalism to dentistry, all taught in English by an international faculty. Crisis-plagued Pyongyang university seeks revival after Trump-Kim... 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z Detroit and Cuba represented, in his view, the extremes of capitalism and communism, systems that have colored Parlá’s life since childhood. Covid. A Coma. A Stroke. José Parlá Returns From the Edge. 2022-07-31T04:00:00Z Government’s proper role is to regulate capitalism so its most savage effects are managed and its worst excesses prevented. “Community” botches damage control 2012-05-24T16:00:00Z The scant assistance provided Stan’s cohort is the equivalent of papering over a massive wreck — a tacit acknowledgment that capitalism creates burdens that society can’t bear. Review | ‘Welfare’ offers a sly critique of public assistance — and capitalism 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z There must be a way to obtain decent coffee, the official drink of capitalism, with no social contact at all? Kitchen gadgets review: Vertuo coffee machine – a haughty home barrista 2017-10-25T04:00:00Z More often than not, invoking “The Godfather” is a way of pointing out what the social critic Daniel Bell called the cultural contradictions of capitalism. ‘The Godfather’ Explained in Seven Quotes 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z The switch showed the interplay between capitalism and communism and both systems' dependence on oil, he added. Wagner's 200th anniversary gets an oil-themed "Ring" 2013-07-25T14:42:10Z There is a season-by-season progression from bourgeois professionalism and petty entrepreneurship to medium-scale enterprise to multinational enterprise and monopoly capitalism, all the way to the final brutal form of empire ending in self-destruction. Four years later, “Breaking Bad” remains the boldest indictment of modern American capitalism in TV history 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z And it’s a kind of capitalism that’s totally self-defeating because it’s so narrow. Jaron Lanier: The Internet destroyed the middle class 2013-05-12T16:00:00Z He condemned not just racism, but also capitalism, militarism, American imperialism, and the American war machine, “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today.” Vietnamese Lives, American Imperialist Views, Even in ‘Da 5 Bloods’ 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z He's a preacher for capitalism, and he believes that is enough to get through a life every day, dreaming of tomorrow. From "Morning Show" to "Hello Tomorrow!" Billy Crudup reveals what his antiheroes are really selling 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z Yet, in so far as competition contributes to economic dynamism, it is surely wrong to claim, as Mr Thiel does, “that competition and capitalism are opposites”. From one who should know 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z It’s something of a profanity-laden counterpart to “Death of a Salesman,” its scorched-earth monologues and inventive insults providing the flashy surface to a melancholy indictment of empty capitalism and toxic masculinity. The Best Movies and Shows on Hulu Right Now 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z He calls it "peer progressivism" and tries to show how it might reshape debates on many subjects - from capitalism's focus on short-term profits to improving the effectiveness of unionized teachers, he says. Author sees blueprints for social change in Internet design 2012-10-05T22:21:47Z Ultimately, Keynes wanted to save market capitalism from itself by curbing its inequities and limiting the instability of the business cycle to help stave off extreme political movements that were threatening its very existence. Socialism vs. barbarism: Only social democracy can defeat the right-wing radicalism of Donald Trump 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z He treats me to a 10-minute critique of global capitalism and inbuilt obsolescence and the iniquity of global labour markets. Will.i.am: 'I want to write code!' 2012-12-15T23:00:05Z "It's overtly political and takes on issues of race and questions capitalism in the boldest ways." Paris: Basquiat show fetes his 50th birthday 2010-10-15T14:57:00Z Diaz’s spotlight on stories behind stories seeks out the dark workings behind capitalism, as well as the uncredited figures behind the so-called Great Men of history. The 10 Best Books of 2022 2022-11-29T05:00:00Z Her habit of decrying capitalism, even as some market reforms lifted Indian people out of poverty—didn’t that paint the left as unempirical? The Prescient Anger of Arundhati Roy 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z Chase understands the imperatives of capitalism and Alden’s effort to profit from a declining business. As a secretive hedge fund guts its newspapers, journalists are fighting back 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z Mostly he despairs about terrorism and capitalism after bombings in France, vents about the tedium of conservative Alsace and his own inertia, and laments that his father died while watching an Occupation-era drama. ‘Just Don’t Think I’ll Scream’ Review: Writing With Movies 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z All writers who have intellectual courage must present bulwarks against disparate evils like the theory of evolution, Mother Teresa or capitalism. BREAKING “The New York Times is hiring a gender editor and I am the only (wo)man for the job!”: The Greatest Living American Writer 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z The nature of capitalism is dependent on growth, but it is not inherently in a museum's interest to expand. Arts & Leisure Preview: Pondering Brooklyn Museum?s Mission and Future 2010-08-05T15:17:00Z Picking up three years later, “Deutschland 86” broadens its scope and shifts its axis, focusing on how the battle between capitalism and communism enfolded north and south as well as east and west. Review: ‘Deutschland 86,’ an East-West Thriller, Looks South 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z “Parasite,” by contrast, is consistent, all too consistent; it focusses its messaging to wreak a devastating twist on a dark truth of capitalism. How “Parasite” Falls Short of Greatness 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z If capitalism had remained unchanged, the Soviet Union would at this point have looked like a reasonable, if tyrannous and polluted, version of the earthly paradise. Red star rising 2010-08-06T23:04:00Z After years of quiet subsistence, the village was turned into a deregulated playground for experiments in western capitalism. Shenzhen stock exchange building: inside China's 'miniskirt' 2013-04-16T17:56:13Z Aquaman symbolizes a bridge to a new ecological world order that is delinked from whiteness, from colonialism and from unregulated capitalism. From "Aquaman" to "Avatar," ocean-centric blockbusters are eroding our terrestrial bias 2023-01-02T05:00:00Z It's the collapse of capitalism and the collapse of our society. Oliver Stone "shocked" on revisit to Wall St 2010-03-03T00:22:00Z It's still not really a scam, though, just capitalism at work. What ticket scam? 2010-06-15T14:58:00Z Warped makes visible the ways that a 21st-century music career is inseparable from nonstop marketing; its bands definitely aren’t rebelling against capitalism. Music Review: Warped Tour Returns to Nassau Coliseum 2012-07-22T22:51:26Z Live by Night makes similar efforts to expose the iniquities of American capitalism. Live by Night: how the gangster film went from top of the world to sleeping with the fishes 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z Not following the typical good versus evil plots, Kripke’s deeper dives this season include today’s issues of systemic racism and capitalism. Season 2 of Amazon hit ‘The Boys’ finds team on run from law 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z The story of how Monopoly came to be is an overlooked chapter of American capitalism, perhaps one that mimics the often cruel nature of the board game itself. The Misplaced Feminism of Ms. Monopoly 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z All of it is a bit silly and sad to me, but I guess it's part of capitalism, there are always people looking to profit off the naivety and greed of others. How HQ Trivia Became the Best Worst Thing on the Internet 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z Although anticommunism and the Keynesian approach to capitalism animated the effort, the Marshall Plan was nonetheless not some clever attempt to sell American surpluses to broken economies. Why American Pragmatists Saved Postwar Europe 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z What measure of meritocracy remains in Iran's version of crony capitalism favours them. A Separation can't be divorced from Iranian politics 2011-07-05T12:13:51Z But while kombucha cases and ample vegan options may signal to shoppers that this isn't your average American grocery store, they alone don't hedge businesses against the grinding gears of capitalism. Whole Foods' CEO wants to reconnect to the chain's core values. After Amazon deal, is that possible? 2022-09-06T04:00:00Z Aurthur Miller's play about Willy Loman, a man destroyed by his own stubborn belief in the glory of American capitalism and its spell of success, opened March 15 to positive reviews. 'Death of a Salesman' recoups its investment 2012-05-16T21:54:11Z There’s the sense of owning the body, and also the rights of capitalism. The war on female sexuality: Is globalization to blame? 2013-01-05T23:00:00Z Bubbles might best be compared to The Arcades Project, the massive fragmentary book in which Walter Benjamin tried to crystallise the history of capitalism in the image of Parisian glass arcades. Bubbles by Peter Sloterdijk, translated by Wieland Hoban - review 2012-02-10T22:55:00Z Senator Ted Cruz, the Republican candidate who used a hefty loan from his wife’s former employer, Goldman Sachs, to finance his 2012 Senate race, has labeled the institution a hotbed of “crony capitalism.” Bankers in the Age of Bernie: Do They Need Camouflage? 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z It’s a researched history of the cubicle that became a book about the way that capitalism is built into the walls of the modern American workplace. The N+1 Candidate 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z The novel’s conclusion does respond artfully to its ongoing questioning of corporate culture and unchecked capitalism. 'The Transition' plumbs every poet's worst nightmare: corporate hell 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z Fighting capitalism is simply a fancy way to seek thrills – like drinking cheap vodka out of a martini glass. ArtsBeat: ‘The Americans’ Recap: Spy Games Are Exciting, Until They’re Deadly 2014-04-10T03:01:50Z Now we can ask, "How do you feel about capitalism? I think I don't like it." Novelist Jonathan Lethem: "There is no allegory crude enough" to capture Trump's America 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z In The Shock Doctrine, Klein uses Hurricane Katrina’s devastation of New Orleans as a case study in disaster capitalism. What do the Grenfell Tower fire and Hurricane Katrina have in common? Disaster capitalism 2017-07-01T04:00:00Z Fewer than half of young adults in America view capitalism positively. A Green New Deal ignites an old red scare 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z But "Threepenny" was created by avant-garde mavericks who embedded caustic critiques of capitalism, militarism and imperialism throughout the show. Get ready for a Mack attack, Seattle: Here comes 'Threepenny Opera' 2011-02-12T01:12:03Z Now he’s trying to be that for people in his industry, appealing to the values of another American religion: market capitalism. One of America’s top climate scientists is an evangelical Christian. She’s on a mission to persuade skeptics. 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z Exploring the context of OJ Simpson’s rise and fall, Edelman constructed a startling treatise on race, gender, celebrity and capitalism itself. The 100 best TV shows of the 21st century 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z The Wall was meant by its creators to last until the day Western-style capitalism finally collapsed and Germany could be reunited under communism. East German officer who opened Berlin Wall wept moments later 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z Well, it’s a big one: The game that brought families together – and then slowly tore them apart – with the healing power of capitalism is turning 80 this year. Monopoly Turns 80: Everything You Didn't Know About the Iconic Game 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z With the state contributing next to nothing, the Koç Foundation bankrolled this year's controversial Istanbul Biennial – which ironically took on the crisis in capitalism – and pays for Turkish shows abroad. Istanbul diary: Golden Horn's oligarchs return Turkey to crossroads of culture 2010-08-31T13:00:00Z But Mr Plender is wise enough to realise that for all its faults, capitalism has raised the living standards of billions of people since the 18th century and improved their life expectancy. What’s the alternative? 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z The Museum of Failed Products – consumer capitalism’s very own graveyard. Happiness is a glass half empty 2012-06-15T22:00:43Z It’s not about the construction of space, or the adaptation of space, but it’s drawing attention to a spatial dynamic in racial capitalism, I would call it. The 25 Most Significant Works of Postwar Architecture 2021-08-02T04:00:00Z New in paperback: a Discovery Institute senior fellow outlines a new capitalism "fully consistent with Jesus' teachings and the Christian tradition." Local-interest books of week include thriller, poetry, picture book 2010-06-14T22:50:00Z In a true story of American capitalism, many Etsy sellers didn’t pick a side. There’s no Trump mug shot, but there’s plenty of Trump mug-shot merch 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z Ma’s debut, “Severance,” about an emotionally numb worker in a post-apocalyptic society, won acclaim for its precise sendup of capitalism and chilly, unsettling tone. 18 Books Coming in September 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z Woven throughout the haunting visuals is a timely meditation on cinema, capitalism and the wages of Manifest Destiny. Perspective | Best movies of 2017: ‘Mudbound’ is a quintessentially American classic 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z This includes capitalism, this includes politics, and this includes the Great White Way. Four Black Artists on How Racism Corrodes the Theater World 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z It's a brew tapping both libertarian and liberal philosophies: respect for the individual but distrust of laissez-faire capitalism; support of government's role in cultivating progress but distrust of centralized planning. Author sees blueprints for social change in Internet design 2012-10-05T22:21:47Z In the movie based on a Don DeLillo novel of the same name, capitalism is corrupting, characters cannot communicate, and people joke that rats could be the new currency. "Cosmopolis" brings star Pattinson to Cannes 2012-05-25T11:49:47Z Hessel's 32-page "Time for Outrage" sold millions of copies across Europe, tapping into a vein of popular discontent with capitalism and transforming him into an intellectual superstar within weeks. Hessel, France's surprise elder icon, dies at 95 2013-02-27T13:26:10Z In a new book, Mr Fuller is scathing in his indictment of state capitalism. Out of the Master’s shadow 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z It might seem absurd to suggest that modern capitalism could depend on someone like Nat Bramble, but Newman will have you believing it's the system's fault rather than his. The Trade Secret by Robert Newman – review 2013-06-07T17:35:01Z The script is thoughtful, but its anger is diffuse, with laissez-faire capitalism and the problems of illegal immigrants and returning soldiers jostling for attention. Martin Starr in ‘Amira & Sam,’ a Love Story 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z Critic/author David Spaner discusses global capitalism in Hollywood and the trend of indie filmmaking in a presentation called "Occupy Hollywood" on Thursday at 7 p.m. at the Film Center. Noir classic 'Laura' plays Northwest Film Forum 2012-04-05T19:28:03Z Oakland’s brand new Museum of Capitalism, devoted to “educating future generations about the ideology, history, and legacy of capitalism,” achieves this in part by getting really, really meta. Opening day at Oakland’s Museum of Capitalism 2017-06-24T04:00:00Z But change has also brought questions about how licensing requirements and market capitalism will shape public debate and how speech should be regulated in a multiethnic and multireligious nation of Buddhists, Muslims and Christians. Freedom brings new challenges for Myanmar writers 2013-02-05T13:08:12Z Or, failing that, for floating libertarian colonies on the high seas that would leave the rabble behind: in Thiel's view, democracy poses a grave threat to the future of capitalism. The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America by George Packer – review 2013-06-21T07:01:01Z Indeed, none of the myriad well-intentioned but ultimately failed craft revivals of the 19th and 20th centuries, from the Arts and Crafts movement to utopian communes, could bridge the gap between craft and capitalism. Made by Hand in America: A New Book Tells the Story of Unsung Artisans 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z As those other museums attest, it’s hard to rigidly define how to cram “capitalism” into the tidy exhibit spaces that typify the museum system as it exists in, uh, capitalism. Opening day at Oakland’s Museum of Capitalism 2017-06-24T04:00:00Z Over time, this “Protestant ethic,” as Max Weber famously argued, gave rise to capitalism and much of the dynamism of Western civilization. ‘Born Bad’: How the idea that we’re all sinners has shaped Western culture 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z Under the tutelage of his businessman grandfather, who brings him to meetings and on work trips, the adolescent Mokhtar is converted instead to the religion of capitalism. The Coffee-Flavored American Dream 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z He patently despised the Conservative party and preferred the company of trades-union leaders to that of the business elite: it was not an accident that his one memorable phrase was "the unacceptable face of capitalism". Edward Heath: The Edward Heath: The Authorised Biography by Philip Ziegler 2010-06-18T23:15:00Z For eight minutes, Purnell talks on the phone while he soaks in a bath, shrink-fitting a pair of shoplifted jeans — “I liberated them from capitalism.” ‘100 Boyfriends’ Tells Lewd and Lonely Stories of Desire and Heartbreak 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z In the Potomac Theater Project production, the over-the-top comedy remains raw and urgent, a scathing critique of capitalism that has no use for balance. Theater Review: ‘Serious Money,’ by Caryl Churchill, at Atlantic Stage 2 2012-07-13T22:03:45Z This is the type of training the forces of fascism, communism, and capitalism get. ‘Power Must Be Taken’: Excerpts From ‘The Anarchist Cookbook’ 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z It became clear to me, as it had not been when the movie came out, in 1984, when I was seven years old, that ghosts congregate around the enemies of free-market capitalism. Ghosts from Our Past: Both Literally and Figuratively 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z Its population remains "decisively under the thumb of late capitalism". 2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson – review 2012-06-14T07:00:03Z Stanley's business partner, singer/bassist Gene Simmons, said in a separate interview from the Czech capital that it was OK in principle to be "piggish" about ticket prices and let capitalism take its course. KISS unveils "Hottest Show on Earth" tour of U.S. 2010-05-24T20:28:00Z An insistence that they share our values, our sense of humor, our embrace of capitalism. A Dog’s Purpose? To Speak on Film, So to Speak 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z So is it overwrought by too much capitalism? As hip-hop turns 50, Chuck D praises its power as "a worldwide cultural experience and religion" 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z "The idea that my personal food choices — what I buy, what I consume — can have these larger political impacts on global hunger, the environment and capitalism, it was a huge shift." "Dairy Pride" and "soy boys": The heated identity politics of non-dairy milk 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z “For some of the mothers I know, a refusal to vaccinate falls under a broader resistance to capitalism,” she writes. ‘On Immunity: An Inoculation,’ by Eula Biss 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z It isn’t that she’s an evil lizard person, but that she lacks the knowledge of what it means to be truly marginalized and holds too much faith in capitalism as a place of change.“ “Hookers for Hillary” doesn’t speak for all sex workers: “Presidential politics is not where we will find our liberation” 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z The communist legacy combined with a too-quick transformation to capitalism means greed and selfishness are valued. Could this man control college basketball? 2013-03-17T21:00:00Z For Marx himself, capitalism created a wraithlike consumer society. Are Vampires Cancelled? 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z She seems as comfortable talking about physics and philosophy as she is discussing God or capitalism. Marilynne Robinson talks religion, fear and the American spirit: “The left, at a basic level, lost courage, because they don’t know how to deal with the proclaimed religiosity of the other side” 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z And it doesn’t come through my phone, it doesn’t come through consumerism, it doesn’t come from capitalism.’” Nick Offerman: 'Trump is about to be presented with a gory butcher's bill' 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z Digital technology is capitalism in hyperdrive, injecting its logic of consumption and promotion, of monetization and efficiency, into every waking minute. Sherry Turkle’s ‘Reclaiming Conversation’ 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z Is our nation known the world over for the way it balances the excesses of capitalism with a program of care for its weaker citizens? My half-brother scares me 2013-03-20T00:00:00Z More than anything, Blade Runner is a story about the end of empire, capitalism taken to its grim logical conclusion. Denis Villeneuve Proved to Us He Loves 'Blade Runner' More Than Anybody 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z It’s a punch line to Johnson’s century-spanning effort to fashion an architecture of unabashed capitalism. Philip Johnson, the Man Who Made Architecture Amoral 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z It’s a slightly confusing work, held together primarily by subtitles, but furthers his practice of hacking the apparatus of global capitalism in subtle, humorous ways. Art in Review: Guy Ben Ner: ‘Soundtrack’ 2014-01-30T21:44:13Z But the history is there if you pay attention — the grand, terrible story of global capitalism and territorial conquest. Here’s What We Would Nominate for Best Picture 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z Sure, Marla's guardianship business is an extreme case, but it serves as a metaphor for capitalism at large, as it's a means to an end for Marla -- who desires power and money more than anything. “I Care A Lot” is a stinging indictment of neoliberal “girlboss” feminism 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z With few exceptions, each of the centrally developed characters is some form of low-level monetary carnivore or scavenger, showing how predatory capitalism encourages us to cannibalize each other – even family. The allure of Netflix's brutal "Squid Game" owes a debt to our predatory upbringing 2021-10-02T04:00:00Z He’s repeatedly gone medieval – in the good way – on the subject of poverty, blasting the “tyranny” of capitalism and the “idolatry of money.” Time’s fitting choice: The “people’s pope” as Person of the Year 2013-12-11T15:51:00Z Basquiat, who died of an apparent drug overdose at 27 in 1988, dealt in his paintings with issues like colonialism, capitalism and the legacy of slavery. The Broad Museum Reopens With a Celebration of Basquiat 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z It was also the birthplace of capitalism, by Moore’s account. A Party in a Lunatic Asylum 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z Everything that I wanted to do with the country is gone, so freedom and democracy are not synonymous with capitalism. Documentary “The King”: “The American people are Elvis. They have been hoodwinked” 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z “This is a book about capitalism,” Ratajkowski told The New York Times in an interview. In a World That Exploits Women, Emily Ratajkowski Exploits Herself. Is That Progress? 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z This was at a moment when capitalism was in crisis, and disillusion with the Soviet Union, and Stalin, hadn’t fully set in; the Soviet Union’s economic success made it seem like a beacon of hope. Review: Adam Hochschild’s ‘Spain in Our Hearts,’ About a Strangely Literary Conflict 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z In the novel, characters mostly act in their self-interest, especially when it comes to money; in many ways the villain is capitalism. The Past Pushes Back in 2 Shows With Contemporary Blackness in Mind 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z They're built for live performance, but this track, with its pagan cowbell fixing capitalism in its crosshairs, is the best translation available. This week's new tracks 2012-12-08T00:05:38Z The infection of healthy capitalism with a terminal case of greed? Television Review: ‘Civilization: The West and the Rest,’ on PBS 2012-05-21T22:06:27Z Few forces in American culture are as significant as monopoly capitalism: The domination of corporate chains shapes what we see, what we read, what we hear – and what we don’t. Indie cinemas fight back against bullying by corporate movie chains 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z What is it that we find lacking in unrestrained financial capitalism, or "commercial society" as the 18th century had it? Tony Judt: A manifesto for a new politics 2010-03-20T00:07:00Z “The book is an indictment of capitalism, and an elegy to those it leaves behind,” Perciasepe wrote in an email. Her Antenna Is Tuned to the Quietest Voices 2020-11-27T05:00:00Z This is how big businesses, and capitalism at large, operate, no matter how many "BELIEVE" posters the football club might hang on its walls. The many betrayals of "Ted Lasso" 2021-10-02T04:00:00Z “But this is what happens when unbridled capitalism collides with progressive ideals.” How San Francisco broke America’s heart 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z In this sense, consumer capitalism is a system tailor-made for deprived children. Adam Phillips on the happiness myth 2010-09-03T23:06:00Z Everything the XL and the Tar Sands represented — the wholesale destruction of the earth, the conscienceless unregulated capitalism, the mind-boggling shortsightedness — was nothing new to me. My 1,700-mile hike across the XL Pipeline 2013-01-20T12:45:00Z Republicans, on the other hand, are already targeting the resolution as a socialist plot to ban hamburgers and destroy capitalism. Is the Green New Deal Realistic? Two Sympathetic Authors Weigh In 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z Its characters are millennials, not Gen-Xers, and as such they came of age in the time of the internet, global capitalism, political conspiracy, legal weed and general overexposure. Now Apocalypse: Gregg Araki lands on TV with a queer, sex-positive comedy 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z The film explains that corporate capitalism doesn't just greenwash; it actually profits from its deep ties to so-called green energy. Why "Planet of the Humans," Michael Moore’s new film about green energy, is so controversial 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z “This film is about the Achilles’ heel of capitalism,” Mr. Jones says at the opening of the film. Terry Jones of Monty Python Has Dementia, His Family Says 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z For Harris, as for Marx, capitalism is the root of all societal evil, an amoral “superintelligence” that relentlessly turns those caught in its thralls into either moneymaking machines or oppressed victims. Can One City Be a Microcosm of Everything That’s Wrong? 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z In his look back at 2014, Bono wrote about his family, his fellow band members and his thoughts on religion, capitalism, music and world affairs. Bono Fears He May Never Play the Guitar Again 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z Moxley began in the 1990s avant-garde, writing poems that refused the comforts of prose sense as they attacked the comforts of capitalism. New works by poets Jennifer Moxley, Judy Halebsky, Saeed Jones 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z But first, we walked through a homage to new capitalism — past the sprawling Aupark shopping center, and through the shiny high-rise corporate complex called Digital Park. The Monoliths of Bratislava 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z Instead of tolerance and opportunity people were presented with a thuggish form of capitalism, one that divided people into winners and losers. Review: In ‘Secondhand Time,’ Voices From a Lost Russia 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z Marcuse was interested in Freud: He cared about psychology and the way capitalism affected it. ‘A Foreign Policy for the Left’ Review: Can There Be a ‘Decent’ Left? 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z “What is your definition of capitalism?” a third poses. Beyond the Book Club, An Artist’s To-Do List 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z As vice president, he had been strong on civil rights and in his first term as president he worked with movement veterans, including Black Power advocates, to promote “black capitalism.” Can You Be Black and Republican? 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z Of course, he was always going to embrace capitalism, how else could he effect change? Jay-Z: good from the hood 2010-11-20T00:03:00Z But he also thinks that the world will muddle through; capitalism will adapt as it has so often in the past. What’s the alternative? 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z Nopca, a Catalan journalist and novelist, examines how capitalism is rigged against his characters, who are at times determined, desperate and dissolute. Short Story Collections for an Ever-Changing World 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z Put simply, it's capitalism vs nature, and capitalism always triumphs … Extreme violence is such an integral part of it all. Readers' Reviews 2011-02-17T23:00:01Z And when activists, professors, and other intellectuals dissect how late capitalism is accelerating democracy's slide into fascism, these stories either directly or metaphorically illustrate what they're talking about. "The Boys" versus The Big Sellout 2022-06-05T04:00:00Z Judging from her calls for critics of capitalism to purge themselves of “negative desire,” you wouldn’t guess that responding to real exploitation had anything to do with it. When It Comes to Politics, Be Afraid. But Not Too Afraid. 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z Deng Xiaoping famously described his grand experiment mixing communism with capitalism, begun 35 years ago, as "socialism with Chinese characteristics." How Arcadia is remaking itself as a magnet for Chinese money 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z Gaddis’s American heroes are Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt, who he thinks “rescued democracy and capitalism.” When to Wage War, and How to Win: A Guide 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z Its stone platform has been graffitied with “BLM,” “all pigs will die,” “capitalism must fall,” and an expletive aimed at President Trump. Perspective | Washington has turned upside down and inside out in a time of protest 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z Morris was a Marxist: he believed beauty could defeat capitalism and create a just society. How Dickens and Dor? forecast our winter of discontent 2010-12-17T13:11:47Z Thant Myint-U writes clearly about such vexing subjects as ethnicity, capitalism and ecological disaster; this is a book with a humane sensibility and a delicate yet pointed touch. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2019 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z The Dionysian irrationality of our emotional and sexual lives promised an antidote to the ugly, transactional, bureaucratic side of capitalism. Love in the time of layoffs 2012-08-03T20:12:00Z If there's ever a product invented where it's like, "And this is it, you don't have to do anything after this," I feel like capitalism will have failed. "True equality is embracing mediocrity": Aparna Nancherla on imposter syndrome and fear of failure 2023-10-01T04:00:00Z It’s Open Mike Eagle articulating the inequities of capitalism and the staggering difficulty of surviving as an artist. Review | Post Malone is the perfect pop star for this American moment. That’s not a compliment. 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z "Sometimes it happens in America and in capitalism: Great ideas get killed," says the director. Atypical sequels abound at Tribeca Film Festival 2011-04-27T17:57:08Z "I'm confused, as are many people right now, about whether capitalism in its present form will work," he finally said. "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps": Gekko's back! 2010-05-14T15:15:00Z Murakami says that, in fact, he’s directly addressing capitalism in his work. Wildly popular exhibition of Takashi Murakami’s art opens Saturday in Vancouver, B.C. 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z That is excellent positive thinking – particularly when you remember that the community Gwyneth is talking about is Goop, her self-curated lifestyle website that doubles as a rolling satire on late capitalism. Why Donald Trump’s victory is a gift for Gwyneth Paltrow 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z He grew up with monarchism assailed by revolutionary anarchism; he grew old with republicanism served by monopoly capitalism. Picasso's politics 2010-05-07T23:09:00Z Revolutionaries get indignant about police abuse or ruthless capitalism, and then forgive, in the name of the revolution, every injustice they had otherwise denounced. Mass Murder Relies on People Like Us: An Interview With Thierry Cruvellier 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z But as the story marches to a close with Tambu heading back to her old village, it’s unclear what might happen when her ambition and her family collide with the new demands of capitalism. Review | One determined woman’s fight to succeed in Zimbabwe — no matter what 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z Mostly, though, Town feels somewhat tame when our daily news is filled with reports of more tyrannical governments and more exploitative capitalism. A Dystopian Fable About the Unshakable Borders of Class 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z Part of his ambition in placing Marx within his 19th-century milieu is to allow us to understand a man in his times, but also distance him from present controversies about globalisation and capitalism. Karl Marx: a Nineteenth-Century Life by Jonathan Sperber – review 2013-06-26T07:00:04Z In these writers’ hands, the self’s integrity is under assault not by illicit indulgences but by capitalism’s imperative to market us shiny neurological upgrades — and by our complicit desire to be thus reworked. Fiction’s New Fake Drugs: A Preliminary Pharmacopoeia 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z Indeed, in all four of the Step Up's narratives, heartland moralising morphs into political agenda; financial acumen means heartless capitalism and bread-line living requires soul. Step Up 4's secret revolutionary message 2012-08-10T12:00:20Z “It set me on the path to radical activism and opened my eyes to capitalism and all its contradictions.” WA’s pioneering gay country band Lavender Country releases first new album in 50 years 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z And because modern capitalism promises a cure — or at least a placebo — for every spasm of parenting anxiety, the decals are still out there. ‘Baby on Board’: How a cutesy decal embodies the enduring terror of parenthood 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z Nothing like a coherent thesis emerges, but he’s feeling his way toward if not a moral capitalism then the idea of who capitalism is for. Jay-Z and the Politics of Rapping in Middle Age 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z Starting with Victorians such as Marx, Mill and Marshall, Nasar attempts to link them to successive generations of economists who grappled with the promises and challenges of industrial-era capitalism. Sylvia Nasar's 'Grand Pursuit' devalued by errors 2011-09-07T20:10:05Z "Mission Drift" was described as "a pioneering journey west and east across the USA in search of the character of American capitalism." U.S. theater wins Edinburgh Fringe award 2011-08-30T17:17:16Z Instead, the Ferengi soon turned into walking, breathing commentaries on the advantages and flaws of unbridled capitalism. Why Aliens Are So Important to 'Star Trek' 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z I think society would be better off if we were energy independent, if we secure our borders, free market capitalism in the healthcare system, not a top-down heavy system. A Minute With: Sean Hannity on 'disconcerting' election, matchmaking 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z For something so omnipresent, capitalism is hard to define exactly. Cheeseburgers, Oil and Minimum Wage: Building a Museum of Capitalism 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z Violence surrounds us and corrodes discourse, and the basic structure of democracy, capitalism and America constrains the equal pursuit of happiness. Perspective | Helen Frankenthaler came from wealth and privilege. Her art transcends that. 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z True to their parts, Liberty Bell delightedly extols the wonders of Vegas while Zoya complains that the glitzy town is a revolting display of capitalism. Fight and flight: how Glow continues to show women at their best and worst 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z Admittedly, the Packers organization still functions within capitalism. Green Bay Packers fans love that their team doesn’t have an owner — just don’t call it “c... 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z When Fei warns him of all the grief that comes with “selling one’s body,” Long reminds him that they’re all selling their bodies in the grind of capitalism. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z In contrast, "The Good Boss," is a satire on capitalism. Javier Bardem on "The Good Boss" humor: Humans love "seeing people suffer when we see they are safe" 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z “But now inflation is high, a possible recession is looming, and there is pressure on corporations. Elon Musk is the poster boy of this, of a doubling down on old fashioned capitalism.” She Worked for Twitter. Then She Tweeted at Elon Musk. 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z Biss may not be able to pin down capitalism, but she knows what she wants: as much of what she wants as is ethically possible. In Capitalism’s Clutch, and Exploring Its Contradictions 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z Other "-ism" words that comprised popular Merriam-Webster searches this year include "feminism," "communism," "capitalism" and "terrorism." The suffix '-ism' is named 2015 Word of the Year by Merriam-Webster 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z And capitalism, coming back to that is a really important piece. "We've got a Marvel movie here": Stephen Gyllenhaal reframes the not-for-profit battle for justice 2023-10-29T04:00:00Z They are capitalism in human form, utterly meaningless except for the meaning onlookers place on them. Keeping Up With the Kardashians gave America its real first family 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z Apt advice, whether for riding a bicycle or for adapting to survive in a world that capitalism has failed. After Tomorrow by Gillian Cross – review 2013-05-10T15:59:01Z Sign me, Blah blah blah Dear Blah Blah Blah, There will always be pockets of luxury and stillness in the midst of frantic capitalism. Class decides everything 2012-06-24T16:00:00Z At the same time, legal and social reforms attempted to buffer the vulnerable from the predations of capitalism and free markets, and from their necessary outcomes: poverty and unemployment and social violence. An Unnamed Girl, a Speculative History 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z Surveillance capitalism can be curbed through sustained outrage and regulation, and it’ll have to be, or else. Our Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2019 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z Kaz said those narratives are largely shaped by the intersection of colonialism, capitalism and patriarchy, which is why she views her work as helping people unlearn these beliefs. A Book Has Women in Africa Talking About Sex 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z What Hollywood cannot imagine is an end of capitalism. "Game of Thrones" isn't "just fantasy": Westeros is a reflection of our terrible realities 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z The Aleph makes glass globes memorializing catastrophes such as Hurricane Katrina and the 2011 Japanese earthquake and tsunami to illustrate the horrors of “disaster capitalism” and consumer culture. Review | If a book could talk, what would it say? Ruth Ozeki has some ideas. 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z “Breaking Bad” feels most alive when capitalism is being acted out violently, rather than the veneer of domesticity of the middle seasons, suggesting that it is in capitalist domesticity that we are least energized. Four years later, “Breaking Bad” remains the boldest indictment of modern American capitalism in TV history 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z It breathlessly awaits the arrival of the new head of the central bank, who might liberate the slumbering energies of capitalism. Outrage is actually optimism: We’re mad because people should be better 2014-02-22T16:00:00Z Sloan’s prose is sharp, and his critiques of capitalism, Silicon Valley and foodie culture are finely cut. The best science fiction and fantasy books to read this month 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z The play touches superficially on war and empire, capitalism and corruption; Donald Trump is mentioned, awkwardly. ‘One Discordant Violin’ Review: In Search of Soul-Stirring Art 2019-11-03T04:00:00Z Like Charlie Chaplin’s assembly line worker in “Modern Times,” who’s swept up in the well-oiled gears of capitalism, the minions keep mucking up the machinery with their labor. Review: Positions Wanted by Minions Experienced at Serving Evildoers 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z “It’s just that pure, beautiful American capitalism, which is really uniquely suited to take any sort of advantage you can take and expand on it.” Red velvet cake’s path from gimmick to marketing craze 2014-05-20T04:00:00Z Monopoly is an inspired subject because both the game and its herky-jerky history illustrate key aspects of capitalism, including issues about sharing wealth and about the ownership and fair use of ideas. It's game time for the history of Monopoly 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z Facebook and Apple are spawning cloud capitalism, in which consumers allow companies to manage information, media, ideas, money, software, tools and preferences on their behalf, holding everything in vast, floating clouds of shared data. 20 predictions for the next 25 years 2011-01-02T00:05:22Z Social media and hacktivist groups like Anonymous represent obverse sides of the rise of identity capitalism. Julian Assange’s latest wake-up call 2013-04-30T17:42:00Z Mark is both exhilarated and terrified by his doxxing disciples, who indiscriminately target an entire middle-aged demographic for the problems of late-stage capitalism. Daniel Torday’s New Novel Pits Young Against Old 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z As a pawn of capitalism, I work like labor laws don't exist: late nights, early mornings and Sundays are as normal to me as $0 income tax bills are to billionaires. You deserve to eat everything on vacation — here's how I learned that I do, too 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z The child’s golden coffin represents the death of the soul at the hands of capitalism. Art in Review: Sherrie Levine: ‘Red Yellow Blue’ 2014-05-09T01:33:46Z Settis’s learning is so formidable that he can shuttle, in just three pages, from the anthropology of “cargo cults” to Walter Benjamin on capitalism and Nietzsche on the Italian spirit. Venice is just the beginning — the West is sinking into a sea of commerce 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z Timely and topical as concerns over the strength of the economic recovery grow, Stone said he, like others, was confused about whether he thought capitalism was a good or a bad thing. Oliver back on Wall Street with bank crisis drama 2010-05-14T11:32:00Z The first was the liberal era of the New Deal and Great Society, defined by regulated capitalism and social democracy, followed by the neoliberal era from Ronald Reagan to the end of Barack Obama’s presidency. Could Politics Be Fairer? Two New Books Say Yes 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z It was an argument that resonated widely in the 1960s, when Marxist intellectuals could still believe that a realistic alternative to capitalism existed, could still argue that "true" Marxism hadn't been tried properly. EP Thompson: the unconventional historian 2013-03-06T15:05:11Z After all, American Psycho tackles Big Themes like life, death, capitalism and morality. American Psycho idea: the serious novel as musical 2010-12-23T10:03:29Z This happened in the early days of modern capitalism: it's the beginning of everything that we live with today. Alistair Beaton and Anthony Neilson: double trouble 2010-07-27T20:31:00Z In the last decade, we've experienced Donald Trump, a pandemic, mass death, near economic collapse, the deepening of the crisis of late-stage capitalism, and irreversible climate catastrophe disproportionately devastating poor communities of color. Why do we even care which celebrities bathe? An investigation 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z The past Lottie might be magic; the present Lottie seems to have lost or suppressed that for something based in capitalism rather than mysticism. ‘Yellowjackets’ Season 2 Premiere Recap: Best Friends Forever 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z But the grab bag of personal and political solutions they present in the film confuses two distinct targets of critique: the technology that causes destructive behaviors and the culture of unchecked capitalism that produces it. ‘The Social Dilemma’ Review: Unplug and Run 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z His characterisation of capitalism is elegant in its simplicity. False consciousness 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z He blames a “vast patronage system and crony capitalism,” for which Mr. Mda holds Mr. Mandela partly responsible, for his marginalization. Books of The Times: ?Sometimes There Is a Void? ? By Zakes Mda ? Review 2012-01-05T21:44:22Z Republicans sprang to their feet and craned their necks at Democrats to see who would defend capitalism by slapping their hands together and chanting “U-S-A.” A Green New Deal ignites an old red scare 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z Perhaps one of the most compelling hinges in McChesney’s book is his project to irrevocably divorce the notion that capitalism is essential to a democracy. When capitalism consumed the Internet 2013-01-03T19:00:00Z Sometimes that makes him sound like a left-wing critic of capitalism, sometimes like the deepest kind of conservative. Wallace Stegner and the Conflicted Soul of the West 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z This does not compute for Americans, who have a thing for capitalism and “lack the intuition to aim for egalitarianism,” the performer Traci Tolmaire explains. Review: Life is Soccer, and Soccer is Life, in ‘/peh-LO-tah/’ 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z It was seen as a subversive attack on capitalism and the patriarchal family. Jonathan Miller attacks West End trend of 'dumping' classic plays in a new era 2013-02-02T11:23:44Z In fact, "The Biggest Loser" may be the world's most American show, built on the same principles of capitalism and dreams that have long defined this country. Why "The Biggest Loser" is the most American show 2010-05-25T19:01:00Z Today, organised crime, like the conventional capitalism of which it has always been merely an unbuttoned caricature, has gone global and become something different. Goodfellas may have gone but the gangster films remain 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z Putin’s current assertiveness, Conradi shows, harks back to the tumultuous ’90s, when the authoritarianism, corruption and crony capitalism we associate with contemporary Russia took root. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z Belton recounts the emergence of what she calls “K.G.B. capitalism” — a form of ruthless wealth accumulation designed to serve the interests of a Russian state that is “relentless in its reach.” Times Critics’ Top Books of 2020 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z Mr Snyder also argues convincingly against the left-wing view that the Holocaust stemmed from imperialism, or the failures of bourgeois capitalism. Re-examining the Holocaust 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z The rescue workers are performing the same authorized rituals on behalf of industrialized death — the dominant characteristic of capitalism — that Walt, in his own hazmat suit, performs at great risk. Four years later, “Breaking Bad” remains the boldest indictment of modern American capitalism in TV history 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z On the other side of the Iron Curtain, we were fêted as comrades fighting capitalism from the inside. Lenin, mum and me – my communist childhood 2015-08-01T04:00:00Z The tension stems from both groups' reluctance to interrogate what divides them: among them are capitalism, social status and institutional power. "Blacks and Jews" authors: "Whoopi is not the enemy" but "it may be too late" for America anyway 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z To the extent that they appear everywhere around the world, including in New York City, they are universal signs of capitalism’s failure to care for the less fortunate. Art Review: Behold the Anonymous Downtrodden 2011-06-02T21:57:17Z The film is also a powerful indictment of neoliberalism and gangster capitalism, and a culture of cruelty that is causing great harm around the world. "Joker": A harsh indictment of neoliberalism and gangster capitalism 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z We flash forward to a scene of modern-day dancing, which, in turn, is interrupted by the arrival of four figures representing the forces of religion, capitalism, media and the military. Mutatis Mutandis 2010-08-02T21:16:00Z They assign them the negative qualities of capitalism – materialism and cutthroat competitiveness – while downplaying Asians’ self-assertion and individuality, which are qualities valued by Western societies. How Korean boy band BTS toppled Asian stereotypes — and took America by storm 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z Blitzstein framed his critique of American capitalism as satire, so embroidering the show with jokes is hardly necessary. Theater Review: ‘The Cradle Will Rock,’ a ’30s Revival at City Center 2013-07-11T21:52:40Z Maybe, but they also represent a formidable act of synergy, a blend of sports, cinema, street culture and raw capitalism that we’re still very much living with and in. The Essential Spike Lee 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z Nor can we simply label China's economic policies as neo-liberal capitalism: its socialist tradition still imposes constraints. The Struggle for Tibet by Wang Lixiong and Tsering Shakya | The End of the Revolution: China and the Limits of Modernity by Wang Hui 2010-04-02T23:06:00Z Buried in the chaos is a brilliant comedic commentary on colonialism, capitalism, religious war and violence. Jungle Mold, Ornithology and Lawn Care: 3 New Novels Find Hilarity in Unexpected Places 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z Through the lens of capitalism, wellness turns those who do not adhere to its tenets into liabilities of the free market. “Wellness” is making us sick: How corporate America’s favorite mantra leaves us all feeling inadequate 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z They protected the environment, reformed unbridled capitalism, expanded the franchise and developed the modern administrative state to fight poverty, inequality and injustice. John Kerry Describes Politics as It Used to Be 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z |
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