Associate editor at Jacobin, also Dollars & Sense Editorial Collective member. Writing in In These Times, Catalyst, Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung and elsewhere. Organizing with the Rank and File Project. Subscribe to my Substack: https://www.left-notes.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/nickfrenchnyc.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/nickfrenchnyc.bsky.social/post/3llqr34v4nk2gFor Left Notes and @inthesetimesmag.bsky.social, I interviewed @ericblanc.bsky.social about his new book, with an eye to how we should understand “worker-to-worker organizing” in relation to older traditions of left-wing unionism. https://open.substack.com/pub/leftnotes/p/worker-organizing-blanc-unions-reform?r=2ejyrx&utm_medium=ios01 Apr 2025 11:22 +0000at://did:plc:j6b2xpk2hvfcp2fame5bhph4/app.bsky.feed.post/3llqr34v4nk2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/nickfrenchnyc.bsky.social/post/3lgq2qguvss2nFor Left Notes, I wrote about the depressing trend of people forming intimate relationships with AI https://www.left-notes.com/p/ai-chatbots-relationships-atomization-neoliberalism27 Jan 2025 13:37 +0000at://did:plc:j6b2xpk2hvfcp2fame5bhph4/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgq2qguvss2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/nickfrenchnyc.bsky.social/post/3lemkqkcrbs27Left Notes’ 2024 roundup: @nealmeyer.bsky.social and I look back on the year https://www.left-notes.com/p/left-notes-2024-in-review31 Dec 2024 17:22 +0000at://did:plc:j6b2xpk2hvfcp2fame5bhph4/app.bsky.feed.post/3lemkqkcrbs27https://bsky.app/profile/nickfrenchnyc.bsky.social/post/3lejw2lpink2eI wrote about Jimmy Carter’s infamous “malaise” speech, and how as president Carter worsened the problems he decried https://jacobin.com/2024/12/jimmy-carter-malaise-speech-austerity30 Dec 2024 16:07 +0000at://did:plc:j6b2xpk2hvfcp2fame5bhph4/app.bsky.feed.post/3lejw2lpink2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/nickfrenchnyc.bsky.social/post/3lcqri6gf6k2cA beautiful mind [contains quote post or other embedded content]07 Dec 2024 22:43 +0000at://did:plc:j6b2xpk2hvfcp2fame5bhph4/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcqri6gf6k2chttps://bsky.app/profile/nickfrenchnyc.bsky.social/post/3lbsyv34uuk2cI wrote some reflections on the deep roots of Trumpism’s success in the US today, beyond the particular campaign failures that Democrats are now agonizing over https://www.left-notes.com/p/trump-rawls-inequality-democrats-capitalism https://www.left-notes.com/p/trump-rawls-inequality-democrats-capitalism?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web26 Nov 2024 02:36 +0000at://did:plc:j6b2xpk2hvfcp2fame5bhph4/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbsyv34uuk2c