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James Livingston

James Livingston is Professor of History at Rutgers-New Brunswick and the editor of P/L. He is the author of Against Thrift (2011) and No More Work, (2016).

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    Introduction to Issue #15

    Welcome to Issue # 15 of POLITICS/LETTERS. We’re going through some changes here, but we’ll come out ahead. Just not of ourselves. We lead with Nancy Fraser’s presidential ...

    On May 20, 2019 / By James Livingston
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    Our Benevolent Feudalism

    Elizabeth Anderson, Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don’t Talk about It). Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017. 144 pp., plus commentary, notes, and index. ...

    On May 20, 2019 / By James Livingston
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    Liberal Racism

    As some of you know, the Human Resources department at Rutgers used my Facebook posts of late May and early June to convict me of violating the university’s ...

    On December 20, 2018 / By James Livingston
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    Introduction to Issue #13

    Here’s the new Quarterly, #13. To me, it reads as a series of reports from far afield—a kind of foreign correspondence. We begin with M. J. Andersen’s remembrance ...

    On September 17, 2018 / By James Livingston
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    Introduction to Issue #12

    At the heart of this new issue are three astonishing essays, by Philip Polefrone, Stephen Clingman, and Sean McCann. Each in their own way, they’re “reviews,” ways of ...

    On May 28, 2018 / By James Livingston
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    Finance Politics

    Paul Krugman’s recent column in the Times illuminates the central forces and salient features of late capitalism, not just the digital kind. He doesn’t acknowledge that these forces and ...

    On May 28, 2018 / By James Livingston
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    Introduction to Issue #11

    Herewith is Issue #11 of Politics/Letters. We’re on a roll. The uncanny thematic of this new issue is, according to my deeply biased reading, a meditation on where ...

    On March 2, 2018 / By James Livingston
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    Introduction to Issue #10

    Herewith Issue # 10 of our little magazine, the quarterly version. As you know by now, P/L Live is our faster side. Here we run longer pieces—not slower, ...

    On November 27, 2017 / By James Livingston
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    Worlds Collide: A Play in Four Acts

    Historical Note: The meeting of these minds is my creation, a fiction, but the four main characters were, in fact, contemporaries who knew and loved Rome in the ...

    On November 27, 2017 / By James Livingston
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    Introduction to Issue #2

    Well, it’s been a while. We thought we’d have this issue out in December, but new circumstances intervened. Still, it’s an exciting set of essays, videos, comics, and ...

    On February 3, 2015 / By James Livingston
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Table of Contents

  • Introduction to Issue #15
  • Is Capitalism Necessarily Racist?
  • Capitalism, Racism and Totality: A Response to Nancy Fraser
  • A Response to Nancy Fraser
  • The Answer Is No: A Response to Nancy Fraser
  • Coddled?
  • Our Benevolent Feudalism
  • On Refugee Literature and the Art of Giving a Fuck
  • Zanzibar in Ivoryton
  • Figures of Catastrophe

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