Stories Worth Reading
Ideas, inspiration, and stories selected for curious minds.
IT’S TIME TO CRACK DOWN ON EXCESSIVE CEO PAY
The pay gap between workers and CEOs at America’s largest low-wage employers is now 670 to 1. That’s obscene. By Sarah Anderson | July 27, 2022 Working families are getting hammered by inflation while corporate leaders and politicians are calling for belt-tightening. But there’s one group of Americans that’s actually profited from increasing prices. Big company CEOs […]
Class War: Game Review
Since the Maggie Phair Institute for Democracy and Human Rights helped sponsor and support Class War: The Jacobin Board Game, I decided to pick up a copy and test it out with my friends with a socialist/anarchist game night. The Good This game isn’t hard to figure out and once you have it setup and […]
THE FAR RIGHT HATES ‘WOKE’ SOCIETY BECAUSE THEY WANT ONE THAT’S ASLEEP
Florida governor and rising GOP star Ron DeSantis has made a favorite hobby of censoring speech and thought. By Jim Hightower | July 27, 2022 Although we haven’t even gotten through this year’s midterm congressional elections, it’s still not too early to start examining some of the characters who hope you’ll make them president in 2024. I […]
The History of Capitalism and Human Rights
The History of Capitalism is the History of Exploitation. In the early modern period, capitalism and oppressive power structures like racism, sexism, ableism, and classism (just to list a few) formed in such a way that they are not only entangled but nearly impossible to distinguish from one another; further, the underlying foundation of modernity as […]
HOW TO PREVENT AN AMERICAN THEOCRACY
Six judges shouldn’t get to overturn the will of voters and destroy our rights. Expand the Supreme Court. By Mitchell Zimmerman | July 13, 2022 Barely a month ago we lived in a world where all Americans had the right to decide for themselves whether to continue a pregnancy. For much of the country, that’s now history. […]
Leftists Should Love Lucy
There’s a biopic out now about Lucille Ball called Being the Ricardos that has mixed reviews (something like a 6.6 on IMDb from users and a similar 68% on Rotten Tomatoes). But there are some things the movie gets right about Lucille – like her ties to the Communist Party and Lucy being targeted during the McCarthy […]
Exit Capitalism, Stage Left – Episode 15 Out Now!
The fifteenth episode of Exit Capitalism, Stage Left is out now. This podcast is supported by The Maggie Phair Institute for Democracy and Human Rights. In this episode, we go over an old relevant interview that highlights what’s going on with UAW workers in the past and what has lead to a strike now, as well […]
The Maggie Phair Institute for Democracy and Human Rights Stands with Striking UC Grad Students and Postdocs
We at the Maggie Phair Institute for Democracy and Human Rights stand in solidarity with the striking UC workers.
Exit Capitalism, Stage Left – Episode 13 Out Now!
The thirteenth episode of Exit Capitalism, Stage Left is out now. This podcast is supported by The Maggie Phair Institute for Democracy and Human Rights. This episode is the first in our education series which looks at the origins of capitalism in the early modern period. In part I of the series, I explored early modern […]