At the Blog
On Monday, William Boyd continued our symposium on Sandeep Vaheesan’s Democracy in Power. The battle over clean energy isn’t just about how much we build—but who owns it. And, as Boyd lays out, for the past forty years, tax policy has promoted a privatized, financialized model of renewable energy ownership.
On Tuesday, Renee Tapp argued that recent attempts to solve the affordable housing crisis rely on a flawed understanding of housing economics and landlord business practices. To address the high price of housing, we must recognize it for what it is: an antitrust issue.
And on Thursday, Nathan Schneider explained why the tech elite’s embrace of far-right politics should be understood as part of a broader effort to suppress collective worker power. To combat this oligarchic influence, tech workers need to adopt durable labor-organizing strategies, embrace solidarity across industries, and begin building tools under their control.
In LPE Land
On Tuesday, June 24 at 1:30 EST, the Roosevelt Institute will be hosting a virtual conversation on “Department of Government Efficiency as Austerity’s Endgame.” David Stein, Bilal Baydoun, Ira Regmi, and Clara Mattei will unpack the harms of austerity politics and chart a path toward a government that serves the people.
At Balkinziation, David Super makes a convincing case that the budget reconciliation bill, beyond imposing significant harm on most Americans, has fundamentally changed how Congress operates.
Cool new paper alert: Lenore Palladino and Harrison Karlewicz on the The Risks of Unregulated “Private” Credit Funds.
Over at the Dig, Ryann Liebenthal, Astra Taylor, Chenjerai Kumanyika, and Mike Pierce discuss Ryann’s book Burdened: Student Debt and the Making of an American Crisis.
In Jacobin, Brian Callaci argues that if we want to increase the supply of housing and improve infrastructure, what capital needs is discipline, not deregulation.
At Spectre, Nate Holdren argues that an emphasis on the Trump administration’s lawlessness misses the mark in important ways, and we should instead focus on the substantive harms its policies inflict.
