Joel Wendland-Liu

Joel Wendland-Liu is the author of Mythologies: A Political Economy of U.S. Literature in the Long Nineteenth-Century and The Collectivity of Life: Spaces of Social Mobility and the Individualism Myth. He is currently finishing his book project titled “Simply to Be Americans? Literary Radicalism and Early U.S. Monopoly Capitalism.”

LATEST ARTICLES BY Joel Wendland-Liu

Opinion

As Trump era closes, Washington cannot rule in the old way
January 19, 2021 By Joel Wendland-Liu
A return to a neoliberal agenda will only deepen the crisis. People can no longer accept a system dominated by billionaires and millionaires—from either major party.
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Politics

The people, not the military, must protect democracy in America
September 29, 2020 By Joel Wendland-Liu
The generals’ call for the Joint Chiefs of Staff to drag a resisting Trump out of the White House is not sufficient to protect democracy.
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Opinion

Barr echoes Trump’s white supremacy by comparing mask-wearing to slavery
September 18, 2020 By Joel Wendland-Liu
If white workers want to abandon white supremacy, which offers no hope of ending the unemployment and disease with which they are being plagued, they must join Black Lives Matter and other popular movements for democracy.
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Opinion

Racism and anti-communism: Why the U.S. has no real health system
September 9, 2020 By Joel Wendland-Liu
Racist hatred of Black people and ideological hatred of socialism fueled the political movement against a national system that makes sense.
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Opinion

Impeachment seems forever ago, but Trump’s Washington still a swamp of corruption
September 4, 2020 By Joel Wendland-Liu
Trump's impeachment and trial seems like a lifetime ago. Since the onset of the pandemic, it has been mostly forgotten. But the corruption keeps on rolling.
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News

Demands grow to free ‘Grace,’ Black teen jailed over homework
August 3, 2020 By Joel Wendland-Liu
A Michigan judge’s outrageous sentence is only one of the latest examples of the immoral school to prison pipeline destroying the lives of young people across America.
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News

Trump’s fascist political strategy
July 27, 2020 By Joel Wendland-Liu
Since Trump's U.S. Senate allies protected him from prosecution during his impeachment, he has a powerful incentive to continue disobeying the law. There remain few forms of Constitutional authority to check his power.
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Politics

We cannot have the police viewing the people as the enemy
July 17, 2020 By Joel Wendland-Liu
Systemic racism will not end because some city leaders participate in painting “Black Lives Matter.” Those are valuable gestures, but deeper social changes are necessary.
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