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Bhaskar Sunkara

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Bhaskar Sunkara is president of The Nation and a founding editor of Jacobin, a print quarterly.

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Our Delusions of Grandeur Will Save the World

Bhaskar Sunkara / Truthdig Oct 17, 2011 It's easy to see that apathy among a subset of middle-class youth is turning to politicization, and the natural form of this politicization is protest against the neoliberal state's slashing of the social benefits that created the modern middle class in the first place. It's kind of true. We’re excessively confident, thinking of ourselves like protagonists in a bildungsroman. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )