Party Lines
Citizens of the Present
Megan Erickson & Miya Tokumitsu
- Summer 2018
- Out Now
- Issue 30
Childhood
At that time the disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?” He called a child, whom he put among them, and said, “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Whoever becomes humble like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.”
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Front Matters
A nutritious start to a healthy magazine
The Soapbox
Letters + The Internet Speaks
Struggle Session
Rational Actors
Jenny Brown
In the United States, women face the prospect of becoming mothers without necessary social protections. Many decide it’s not worth the risk.
Friends & Foes
It’s Okay to Have Kids
Connor Kilpatrick
Instead of challenging the pressures that capitalism puts on child-rearing, liberals surrender to it.
Means of Deduction
Math can be fun too
Vulgar Empiricist
Don’t Leave the Kids Alone
Higher social spending leads to better lives for children. The United States has a long way to go.
Transitions
Defunding the Future
About one fifth of American children live in poverty. Their government’s negligence is to blame.
Uneven & Combined
God Bless the Child
The correlation between climbing homicide rates and child migration is too obvious to deny.
Every Child Needs the Good Enough State
Catherine Liu
The richness of childhood needs to be embraced as a social good.
Reading Materiel
Read books together every day
Canon Fodder
The World’s Toughest Job
Miya Tokumitsu
“The perfect mother” is a cudgel to cut down the flesh-and-blood variety.
Canon Fodder
We Read a Bunch of Parenting Books
Now let us raise your children.
Field Notes
How Children Are Made
A Jacobin glossary.
Japan's Womenomics
Kristin Surak
Cultural Capital
Snow White exploited slave labor.
Red Channels
Klass and Kids’ Films
Eileen Jones
Disney-Pixar vs. Laika
Bass & Superstructure
The Beyoncé Treatment
Jonah Walters
No mother should be forced to give birth in conditions Beyoncé wouldn’t accept for herself.
Beyond a Boundary
The Spoils of War
Meagan Day
Participation trophies are actually good — give one to every child.
The Tumbrel
Our love is not unconditional.
Girondins
Girls to the Rescue
Maria Hengeveld
Workers need independent and strong unions, not corporate-sponsored NGOs, to fight their bosses and support their families.
Thermidor
The Criminalization of Youth
Alex S. Vitale
If we want to offer children a better future, we need to get the criminal justice system out of their lives.
Versailles
Class Clowns
Branko Marcetic
Meet the Silicon Valley “disruptors” who want to teach your kids.
Leftovers
Some parting, warm memories.
The Dustbin
The Newsies Were Real
Jonah Walters
Picket lines once made the best playgrounds around.
Means & Ends
Jacobin Is for the Children
Bhaskar Sunkara
Help keep Jacobin alive for generations to come.
