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LBO News · 3d ago

Explaining what goes on in the world: in memory of Bob Fitch

[This is the text of a talk I gave at LaGuardia College, Long Island City, Queens, in memory of Bob Fitch, who died on March 4, 2011, from complications of a fall he suffered when returning home from teaching at LaGuardia. My short remembrance, written for The Nation, is here. Thanks to Jane LaTour
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LBO News · 6d ago

Me talking about Fitch, Monday

I’m giving the Bob Fitch memorial lecture on Monday evening, 5-7 PM, LaGuardia College, 31-10 Thomson Avenue, Long Island City, Room E-500. New York city, unions, Democrats, stuff like that. Map: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=LaGuardia+College,+31-10+Thomson+Avenue,+Lon
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LBO News · 1W ago

Fresh audio product

Just added to my radio archives: May 5, 2012 James Galbraith, author of Inequality and Instability, talks about inequality and instability
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LBO News · 3W ago

Fresh audio product

Just posted to my radio archive web page: April 28, 2012 James Livingston, author of Against Thrift, speaks up in favor of the consumer culture as a liberatory thing April 21, 2012 Gar Lipow, author of Solving the Climate Crisis through Social Change, on the politics of averting climate change • Edw
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LBO News · 4W ago

Employment laggard: the public sector

Paul Krugman notes that public sector employment has declined under Obama—a sharp contrast with his two predecessors, under whom it grew (with Republican Bush ahead of Democrat Clinton). How does recent experience stack up on a longer view? Very unusually. Graphed below is the behavior of employment
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LBO News · 1M ago

Obama’s stock market: pretty good (if you care about that sort of thing)

Republicans and business interests have been relentless in their whining about how B. Hussein Obama has the “job creators” cowering under a reign of terror, what with his socialist policies and hostile rhetoric. But how have the monied been voting their approval or disapproval in one of their favori
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LBO News · 1M ago

New radio product

Some of these shows have been up as podcasts for a while, but I’ve just updated the web page. If you want timely delivery, subscribe to the podcast. Here’s the show’s iTunes page. If you prefer individual access, here’s some recent product: April 7, 2012 Joel Schalit, co-editor of Souricant, on anti
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LBO News · 1M ago

The Nation moves money, again

Forgive me if I’m looking obsessed, but someone has to do it. The Nation was out with an email blast this morning touting its branded affinity VISA card issued by UMB Bank in Kansas City. The magazine’s associate publisher, Peggy Randall, helpfully identifies UMB as “a small, regional bank recommend
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LBO News · 1M ago

On not staging a mock conversion to the right

Here’s a slightly edited version of my opening remarks at last night’s panel on the right, featuring Corey Robin and me, moderated by Christian Parenti, held at UnionDocs in Brooklyn. It was a fine event, and thanks to all who made it possible. Audio will be posted somewhere soon. Given the day, I’d
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LBO News · 2M ago

Yakking in Geneva…

…New York, not Switzerland. Not at all a disappointment, since Geneva, Switzerland, is one of the dullest major places I’ve ever been, and Geneva, New York, features the excellent Jodi Dean, who invited Liza Featherstone and me to speak at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Jodi’s announcement: Liza
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