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How Ideology Works  

Any successful political project binds together ideas, actors, and power. “Neoliberalism” helps us understand how these fit together.





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The Violence of Eviction  

To understand how the housing market really works, we need to hear the stories of those who have been pushed out. Two essential new books shine a spotlight on those stories, and illuminate much more in the process.





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Generation Debt  

Education is a human right. Anyone willing and able should be able to attend an institution of higher education irrespective of their ability to pay for it.



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Liberal Punishment  

Naomi Murakawa’s remarkable book The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America shows how, since the 1940s, liberals have provided legitimacy for the prison state.



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Citizen Coupon  

Conservatives and neoliberals envision a government that provides a comparable range of benefits to the one advocated by earlier American liberals. But rather than designing and delivering services directly, the neoliberal government provides coupons for citizens.





Kinder, Gentler Cuts  

The Age of Austerity: How Scarcity Will Remake American Politics by Thomas Byrne Edsall Doubleday, 2012, 272 pp. Arizona has sold its state capitol. Government budgets are contracting, especially when it comes to services and goods essential for the poor. …