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On Class, Nationalism, and Labor
Christopher Prendergast
reply by Wolfgang Streeck
[short_description] Neoliberalism must be reformed. But nothing can be achieved without an understanding of neoliberalism that does not reduce it to a reflection of the internationalized order of globally mobile capital.
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A Populist Plutocracy
Guenther Roth
reply by Wolfgang Streeck
[short_description] Weberian analysis requires a battery of types to identify the historical specificity of a case. However, no framework, however inclusive, can ever account for the fluidity of historical dynamics.
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The Role of the Working Class
Ben Tarnoff
reply by Wolfgang Streeck
[short_description] Most working-class Americans are not Trumpists, since most of them do not vote. The withdrawal of the working class from politics has created the conditions for the rise of the far right.
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The Politics of Pity
Robert Horwitz
reply by Wolfgang Streeck
[short_description] The starkly uneven consequences of globalized creative destruction have ravaged national working classes. In response, they have revolted politically—but to the right, not to the left.
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The Price of Internationalism
Lawrence Rosenthal
reply by Wolfgang Streeck
[short_description] Bill Clinton’s liberalism of the 1990s had merely a de facto vision. Nothing to put on a banner and march beneath. Liberalism was slouching toward internationalism.
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On Class and Identity Politics
Alana Lentin
reply by Wolfgang Streeck
[short_description] In political sociology, the poverty of the conclusions reached by venerable academics is the result of a failure to place a critical analysis of race at the heart of mainstream scholarship.
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On National Identity
Owen Goldin
reply by Wolfgang Streeck
[short_description] The excitement over the Obama and Sanders candidacies, predicated on diversity and openness as traditional unifying American values, suggests that the game is not yet up for American democracy.
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Our Evolving Identity
Djillali Hadjouis
reply by Anne Dambricourt Malassé
[short_description] Occipital rocking in hominids can help clarify how the bony parts of the base of the skull rotate—a phenomenon that paleoanthropologists have not fully understood.
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On Gödel’s Ontological Argument
Thomas Metcalf
reply by Graham Oppy
[short_description] How might a theist defend Gödelian modal ontological-arguments? Thomas Metcalfe details how this might be done, before offering the most dissuasive objections to such arguments.
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