Jacobin

The hyperelitist world of prerevolutionary France fostered resentment among writers excluded from salons and high society. This bitterness proved a fertile breeding ground for revolution led by writers who targeted their anger at the old order, writes Bartolomeo Sala in this review of The Writer’s Lot: Culture and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France by Robert Darnton.

Third Way Democrats are right to obsess over the Democrats’ increasing troubles with working-class voters. But their solution is more of the Clintonian economic centrism that drove away working-class voters in the first place, writes Jared Abbott in Jacobin.

The decline of physical media and the death of analog formats is consolidating corporate control over digital content, writes political commentator David Moscrop, who argues that this shift raises serious concerns about access, ownership, and consumer rights.

Tant que les démocrates ne trouveront pas un moyen de reconquérir une grande partie des électeurs de la classe ouvrière, les successeurs de Donald Trump seront également favorisés lors de la prochaine élection présidentielle. Par Matt Karp, rédacteur en chef de Jacobin et professeur agrégé d'histoire à l'université de Princeton.

Until Democrats can find a way to win back some large chunk of working-class voters, Donald Trump’s successors will be favoured in the next presidential election too, writes Jacobin contributing editor Matt Karp, an associate professor of history at Princeton University.

In her book Fixing France: How to Repair a Broken Republic, journalist Nabila Ramdani cuts through the self-congratulatory myths of French politics to deliver a damning picture of France under Emmanuel Macron, writes Olly Haynes in this review published by Jacobin. But, he argues, she doesn’t give enough credit to the leftwing forces working to transform this broken system.

Not all French business elites look favorably on the rise of Marine Le Pen’s Rassemblement National. But tech bosses, fossil fuel magnates, and “alternative finance” chiefs see plenty to like in its program — and they’re putting their support behind it, writes Théo Bourgeron in Jacobin.

According to polls for France’s snap election, the far-right’s main opponent isn’t Emmanuel Macron but the leftwing New Popular Front. It has to rally working-class voters and show that the social damage of Macron’s rule can be undone, writes Pablo Castaño on Jacobin.

Rashida Tlaib is leading a group in Congress calling on Joe Biden to halt extradition proceedings against WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange. The prosecution of Assange should worry anyone who believes in freedom of the press, writes Jacobin columnist Ben Burgis.