November 28, 2011 Issue
Cover art by: Cover design by Milton Glaser Incorporated
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Feature
Capitalism vs. the Climate
Denialists are dead wrong about the science. But they understand something the left still doesn’t get about the revolutionary meaning of climate change.
Naomi Klein
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Confessions of an Unrepentant Exile
Returning to Chile decades after Allende’s death, I was no longer a soldier of the revolution. What changed?
Ariel Dorfman
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Why Aren’t the Jobless Flocking to Zuccotti Park?
Blaming themselves for their plight, the unemployed don’t look to protest—or to government—for a way out.
Louis Uchitelle
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Editorial
Time to Disband the Supercommittee
The vast majority of Americans want Congress to focus on jobs. So why is it still focused on deficit reduction—and making key budget decisions in secret?
The Editors
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The 99 Percent Vote to Protect Labor Rights, Voting Rights, Reproductive Rights and Immigrant Rights
From Ohio to Maine to Mississippi, voters rejected the conservative agenda on key issues.
John Nichols
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Noted.
D.D. Guttenplan on Occupy London, George Zornick on corporate tax evaders, Alexandra Tempus on corporate schools
Various Contributors
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Paramilitary Policing From Seattle to Occupy Wall Street
As Seattle police chief in 1999, my disastrous response to the WTO protests should have been a cautionary tale. Yet our police forces have only become more militarized.
Norm Stamper
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Column
The Agony and Ecstasy—and ‘Disgrace’—of Steve Jobs
While our tech-obsessed media fondled their iPhones, it was left to a courageous monologist to discover the real legacy of Apple’s founder.
Eric Alterman
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How Greece Exposed Europe’s Potemkin Democracy
It’s not surprising that Greece’s proposed referendum elicited such outrage. Europe doesn’t work like that.
Gary Younge
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Books & the Arts
Confessions of an Unrepentant Exile
Returning to Chile decades after Allende’s death, I was no longer a soldier of the revolution. What changed?
Ariel Dorfman
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Night Thoughts of a Baffled Humanist
Punitive yet salvific, austerity is the ideology of a country that has turned against its own culture.
Marilynne Robinson
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Times Squared
Jem Cohen’s Newsreel No. 1, Aki Kaurismäki’s Le Havre, Andrew Niccol’s In Time
Stuart Klawans
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Letters