Category: Posts

  • Big Tech’s turn to Trump is not mysterious

    Big Tech’s turn to Trump is not mysterious

    Leading figures across greater Silicon Valley have turned right for the same reason business elites always have: they want more power over their workers. https://lpeproject.org/blog/techs-turn-to-trump-was-a-labor-story-and-the-response-should-be-too/

  • Consider assigning Beautiful Solutions

    Consider assigning Beautiful Solutions

    Are you teaching a course on social change? Please consider assigning material from this powerful new book I’ve had the opportunity to co-edit, Beautiful Solutions—full of tales from solidarity economies around the world, designed to be taught: https://beautifultrouble.org/beautifulsolutions

  • Financing shared ownership

    Financing shared ownership

    What could enable economic democracy at scale? At the Democracy Policy Network, Júlia Martins Rodrigues and I have a new report on lessons for state-level policy, based on experience from Colorado to Brazil: https://democracypolicy.network/agenda/open-country/open-economy/financing-shared-ownership

  • “Antisemitism” after terrorism in Boulder

    “Antisemitism” after terrorism in Boulder

    The change that has come over the word “antisemitism” is itself unspeakable. My latest at Flaming Hydra: https://flaminghydra.com/issue-336/#antisemitism-and-the-unspeakable

  • Tenure and antisemitism

    Tenure and antisemitism

    Last week, I was granted tenure by my university. This moment, combined with the terrorist attack in Boulder, has had me thinking about the limits of what is unspeakable today, especially around the word “antisemitism.” https://nathanschneider.info/2025/06/antisemitism-and-the-unspeakable/

  • Antisemitism and the Unspeakable

    Originally appeared at Flaming Hydra. On September 12, 2001, Ward Churchill, a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder (where I now teach) published an essay about the terrorist attack that had taken place in New York the day before. With the subtitle “On the Justice of Roosting Chickens,” Churchill compared the 9/11 catastrophe to…

  • Solidarity and allyship

    Solidarity and allyship

    Just out from the Stanford Social Innovation Review—my essay on Sarah Schulman’s book on solidarity. Why that word matters so desperately right now, and why it is not the same as allyship: https://ssir.org/books/reviews/entry/the-fantasy-and-necessity-of-solidarity-review

  • AI and popes named Leo

    AI and popes named Leo

    On AI and popes named Leo: https://theconversation.com/19th-century-catholic-teachings-21st-century-tech-how-concerns-about-ai-guided-pope-leos-choice-of-name-256645

  • Protocological governance theory paper

    Protocological governance theory paper

    A new paper out—not the easiest going, but an effort to theorize some of the dynamics of governance through protocols, with Johannes Bennke: https://doi.org/10.25819/ubsi/10661

  • Remembering Race Matthews

    Remembering Race Matthews

    My favorite book on the legacy of Pope Leo XIII (the namesake of Leo XIV) is by the Australian politician Race Mathews—who realized that, to understand economic democracy, he had to get a theology degree: https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/jobs-of-our-own Thank you, Race, and RIP: https://www.vic.gov.au/RaceMathews