Wes Anderson and the Old Regime

by Eileen Jones Jacobin
With The Grand Budapest Hotel, Wes Anderson has reached the dizzying point of fantasizing about feeling nostalgic for nostalgia itself.

Budding Liberal Protest Movements Begin to Take Root in South

By Herbert Buchsbaum The New York Times
“We have people dying every day just because they don’t have access to health care,” one protester, Shayna Adelman, 32, said in an interview before she was jailed. “It’s morally repugnant to me. Sometimes you have to take dramatic action to get people’s attention.”

The Passion of Rob Ford, or the Neoliberal Making of Toronto’s Municipal Crisis

By Paul Cohen Dissent Magazine
The real story in Toronto, then, is not Rob Ford. It is how three decades of creeping neoliberalism have made it possible for one of North America’s most diverse cities in one of the west’s most robust democracies to elect a right-wing populist. It is how successive federal governments—Liberal and Conservative alike—shrank government spending by 20 percent as a share of GDP since the early 1990s and flattened the tax structure.