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Ryan Moore teaches Sociology and is the author of Sells like Teen Spirit: Music, Youth Culture, and Social Crisis (NYU Press).
  • Policing the New Crisis

    Policing the New Crisis

    Ryan Moore weighs the convulsions of our present neoliberalism against the rise of Thatcherism, by way of reference to Stuart Hall and his co-authors’ classic text on Thatcherite ideology and hegemony, Policing the Crisis.

  • Marx Goes to Texas

    Marx Goes to Texas

    From Issue IV: Ryan Moore examines Marx’s analyses of the U.S.—and his onetime emigration plans. Drawn to communities of German socialist expatriates in the area, Marx once considered making his way to Texas. Steeped in a separate history, 
how might he have formulated the political
 economy of the capitalist slave state?

  • Discovering a Green Marx: Kohei Saito’s Marx in the Anthropocene

    Discovering a Green Marx: Kohei Saito’s Marx in the Anthropocene

    Ryan Moore examines Kohei Saito’s environmentalist reading of Marx’s late notebooks in Marx in the Anthropocene—a major work in Marxist ecology and intervention in the degrowth debate.