ALEX GOUREVITCH
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JOURNALISM
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Aside from the list below, here are links to the full list of my Jacobin and American Prospect articles.
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Seven Realities of Israel/Palestine, Damage Magazine, 3/5/24​​
On the uncomfortable political realities facing each side
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Their Fight, Not Ours, Northern Star, 1/29/24.
On the imperial interest the US pursues in bombing Yemen, at the expense of the national interest
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Post-Work Socialism is a Tempting Illusion, Jacobin, 8/5/23 (Interview: Here)
A critique of post-work socialism and universal basic income
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Why Are the Police Like This?, Jacobin, 6/12/20
On the strike-breaking origins of the militarization of the police
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A Democratic Virus, Jacobin, 4/9/20
On Trump's reluctance to take advantage of the suspension of democracy during covid
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Leave the EU Already, Jacobin, 1/31/19
On the undemocratic nature of the EU and democratic possibilities of Brexit
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When King Was Dangerous, Jacobin, 1/21/19
The connections between MLK's civil disobedience and law-breaking during strikes
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A Radical Defense of the Right to Strike, Jacobin, 7/12/18
The connection between the right to strike and freedom
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Making Sense of Syria, Jacobin, 4/7/17
Trump's reactive foreign policy and its limits
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Beyond Resistance, Jacobin, 2/13/17​
Why being anti-Trump is a weak basis for Left politics
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You Can't Fake It, Jacobin, 2/6/17
The unseriousness of calling for a general strike in the absence of labor militancy​
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When W. Was President, Jacobin, 1/31/17
The reaction to Trump overlooks how the Trump years are far more politically open than the W years,
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From Strike to Shop Floor, Jacobin, 6/15/16
The denouement of the Verizon strike
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Chronicle of a Strike, Jacobin, 5/18/16​
Reportage from the Verizon strike
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'Our Forgotten Labor Revolution,' Jacobin, Issue 18 'Struggle and Progress,' Summer 2015
The revolutionary legacy of the Civil War
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'You Can't Be Pro-Euro and Anti-Austerity' Jacobin, 7/15/15
The contradictions of the left position on the euro​​
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'Gun Control's Racist Reality' Salon, 6/24/15​
The idea of gun control and its reality
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‘Decline of the Strike,’ Dissent, Fall, 2014, 142-147
A review of Jeremy Brecher's Strike!, a history of mass strikes in the United States
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‘After Austerity,’ Jacobin, 4/25/13
Why Left politics needs to be more than 'anti' austerity.
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‘Wage-Slavery and Republican Liberty,’ Jacobin, 2/28/13
On the history of labor republicanism in the United States, or the tradition that criticized wage-labor as a form of servitude
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‘Let it Bleed: Libertarianism and the Workplace,’ co-authored with Chris Bertram and Corey Robin, Crooked Timber, 7/1/12
The paradoxes of the libertarian of authoritarian workplaces
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‘Borrowed Energy: Review of Corey Robin’s The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism From Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin,’ Dissent, Summer 2012
A review of Robin's history and theory of conservatism​​
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‘Wrong Reaction: against Mark Lilla’s review of Reactionary Mind’ Jacobin 1/2/12
A critique of a familiar view of conservativsm​​, by way of a critique of Mark Lilla
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‘America’s Failed Promise of Equal Opportunity,’ co-authored with Aziz Rana, Salon, 2/12/12
Equality of opportunity was once linked to a more radically egalitarian conception of universal freedom​​
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‘Fear,’ The Chronicle Review, 8/7/11
The problem with reorganizing politics around eliminating fear rather than achieving positive ends
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‘The Politics of Fear: Whatever Happened to the War on Terror?’ N+1 Number 6, Winter 2008
How environmentalism has become the Left's version of the politics of fear​
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‘Exporting Censorship to Iraq’ The American Prospect, October, 2003 14:9. Reprinted in Project Censored 2005.
How the US exported is censorship regime to the new Iraqi legal system​
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‘Body Count’ Washington Monthly, June 2003
On the invention and inflation of terrorists to justify the expansion of administrative power and bureaucratic budgets
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‘Asylum Interrupted’ The American Prospect, April, 2003, 14:4
The authoritarian asylum system
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‘Better Living Through Chemistry’ Washington Monthly, March 2003
Why fear's of DDT are overblown, leading to indefensible restraints on its use for disease control