Tag: New York City
Anti-capitalism
Municipal Socialism’s “YIMBY” Problem
Ben Rosenfield and Holden Taylor challenge technocratic Abundance-style solutions to the New York “housing crisis” and argue for a militant movement with tenants as the protagonists.
Ben Rosenfield and Holden Taylor
February 10, 2026
New York City
“The Greatest New York City Mayor of All Time”
Keith Rosenthal looks back on the historical record of Mayor Fiorello La Guardia in order to reexamine the relationship between social movements and their elected officials.
Keith Rosenthal
November 4, 2025
Anti-semitism
Mamdani’s Judeo-Bolshevik Threat
Benjamin Balthaser explores the representation of Zohran Mamdani as simultaneously foreign menace and inauthentic outsider, deploying both antisemitism and Islamophobia to prop up a neatly racialized version of politics.
Benjamin Balthaser
August 1, 2025