The center-right has spent the past two weeks concocting craven takes on Jordan Neely’s murder, claiming the real issue is the elite’s indifference to the “disorder” that working class people face on public transit.
This week, Chris Lehmannunpacks how pundits exploit class politics for their own gain, while ignoring the fact that many actual working-class New Yorkers, including a major service workers union, have condemned Neely’s murder. The dialogue reveals a “romance with a working class it has no actual interest in understanding and representing,” Lehmann writes.
A conversation with Adom Getachew and Jennifer Pitts about Du Bois’s thinking on imperialism, transnational solidarity, and their recent collection, W.E.B. Du Bois: International Thought.
Over a 10-year campaign, they talked back to public health experts, government officials, and even purported allies who were treating them like they were the problem.