The fall issue of Jacobin is out now! Among other topics, “The New Empire” examines why the erosion of US dominance has bred more violence, not less, and why militarism remains so politically durable. Get it by starting a subscription for just $3: jacobin.com/subscribe?medium…

Peter Thomas, the Marxist theorist best known for his work on Antonio Gramsci, has died. He restored the political edge to Gramsci’s theory of hegemony and saw his own scholarship as part of the Left’s fight for power. jacobin.com/2026/10/peter-th…

The federal government and other plaintiffs have been racking up wins in court against Google and Facebook’s parent companies. But the resulting penalties and settlements don’t make a dent in the platforms’ power. jacobin.com/2026/10/big-tech…

As evangelical Christian leader Rick Warren puts it in “The Purpose-Drive Church,” “Our ultimate goal at Saddleback [Church] is to turn an audience into an army.” This is where the Left is weakest. jacobin.com/2026/10/evangeli…

In 2016, then Defense Secretary Ash Carter said “innovation” 67 times in a 38-minute speech. Thomas Frank on how creativity became the ruling class’s favorite alibi. jacobin.com/2026/10/frank-cr…

You know Elizabeth Holmes committed fraud. You know Nathan Fielder is manipulating you. Somehow, “You Can See Everything” still manages to make you doubt everything you're watching. jacobin.com/2026/10/review-f…

In “Anti-Fascist Economics,” Isabella Weber explodes neoliberal myths about the futility of price controls and explains why they may be necessary to halt the far right’s advance. jacobin.com/2026/10/weber-ec…

Peter Thomas, who died this month, believed in the political mission of the intellectual. At the heart of his project was a sustained effort to rethink Antonio Gramsci’s concept of hegemony for the struggles of the present. jacobin.com/2026/10/peter-th…

High-profile litigation against Big Tech companies like Meta, Apple, and Alphabet has come to little. Organized tech workers and a political movement for real regulation and public control may be the only forces that can rein in the tech giants: jacobin.com/2026/10/big-tech…

Best-selling evangelical author Rick Warren articulates a model for generating self-reinforcing membership growth that has a lot to teach the American left today, as we struggle with member retention and development: jacobin.com/2026/10/evangeli…

Thomas Frank, author of "The Conquest of Cool," on the cult of creativity: jacobin.com/2026/10/frank-cr…

If you haven’t seen “You Can See Everything,” and you’re not “in on it” yet, fix that immediately. This doesn’t happen often in our moviegoing world: jacobin.com/2026/10/review-f…

There is a long but neglected history of governments successfully using price controls to battle inflation and support working-class living standards. Isabella Weber’s new book extracts lessons from these experiences for today’s Left: jacobin.com/2026/10/weber-ec…

Marxist political theorist Peter Thomas died this month at 53. His work offered a powerful rethinking of politics beyond the alternatives of technocratic governance and populism: jacobin.com/2026/10/peter-th…

This year has seen the resolution of major suits against tech giants Alphabet and Meta, both of which were found liable for serious lawbreaking. Yet the penalties imposed on the corporations are laughably inadequate to restrain their power. jacobin.com/2026/10/big-tech…

Canadian democratic socialist party COPE elected all 12 of its candidates for municipal offices in Vancouver over the weekend. Among the winners is the youngest person ever elected to the city council, 21-year-old Solomon Yi-Kieran.

Evangelical churches like Rick Warren’s wouldn’t be as massive as they are with real retention of members over time without a serious plan for member leadership development. The Left could learn from them. jacobin.com/2026/10/evangeli…

Thomas Frank on the middle class’s most cherished idea, creativity, and how it became the cover story for the plutocracy that replaced it. jacobin.com/2026/10/frank-cr…

In “You Can See Everything,” Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim turn their confrontation with Elizabeth Holmes into a Hitchcockian thriller about the slippery nature of truth. It’s a masterpiece. jacobin.com/2026/10/review-f…

John Reed was born on this day 139 years ago. Reed's thrilling dispatches from the front lines of the Mexican Revolution could have made him a pop culture celebrity. Instead, the experience made him a committed socialist. jacobin.com/2021/11/mexican-…

In her new book, economist @IsabellaMWeber explains how inflation has helped drive the far right’s ascendance around the developed world — and how effective price regulation can promote affordability and boost the Left. jacobin.com/2026/10/weber-ec…