Michael Carter

Sep 3, 2024 | currentaffairs.org | Ciara Moloney |Richard Eskow |Michael Carter |Nathan J. Robinson

Originally published in our magazine’s hallowed print edition 2024 July/Aug Details Capitalism is supposed to encourage innovation. But in Hollywood, studios are creating a narrower range of films to avoid taking any risk at all. Wile E. Coyote is a famously loyal customer of Acme Corporation, producers of nitroglycerine, bird seed, giant rubber bands, explosive tennis balls, do-it-yourself tornado kits, and jet-propelled pogo sticks.

Jul 15, 2024 | gfi.org | Michael Carter

Unlocking the full potential of alt proteinsGovernments are increasing their financial, policy, and regulatory support for alternative proteins but have yet to approach the annual support required to realize alternative proteins’ benefits to the economy, climate, and global food system. To unlock the full potential of alternative proteins, it is estimated that $10 billion per year in global public spending on R&D and commercialization is needed. We need everyone at the table to make that happen.

Jan 26, 2024 | currentaffairs.org | Michael Carter

Brian Merchant has served as technology columnist for the Los Angeles Times and is the author of the new book Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech. Brian’s book takes us back to early 19th century England, and the birth of the “Luddite” movement. The Luddites famously smashed new machines that were expected to take away jobs in the textile industry.

Aug 10, 2023 | currentaffairs.org | Samuel McDonald |Richard Eskow |Michael Carter |Ryan Bedsaul

To reminisce about the “long 1990s” is to remember a brief end to history, when the towering gingerbread house of liberal democracy finally enclosed us all. This was the decade when the value of investing in finance capital and divesting from the public good went fully mainstream. The slow-falling scythe blade severing individuals from each other, institutions from their purpose, and the myriad forms of sacredness and ways of life from capitalist realism was blissfully welcomed.