The Luv Doc: A Li'l Spendy

The kind of economic Übermensch G-Dubs prayed for back in '07

"...As G-Dubs would earnestly try to make you understand, capitalism is a stern taskmistress. You're always having to fleece..."

April 7, 2017 Column by The Luv Doc

Letters at 3am: The Future Dot-Dot-Dot

Ellipses express exactly my sense of the future

"...The capitalist system cannot function that way. Capitalism needs workers to exploit. Automation-plus-software will create what the..."

Oct. 17, 2014 Column by Michael Ventura

Veni Vidi Venture

The unlikely heroes of big business

"...From Capitalism: A Love Story to Inside Job to The Yes..."

March 11, 2011 Screens Feature by Wells Dunbar

Capital in the Twenty-First Century

History doesn't repeat itself but the rhymes are terrifying in this unmissable documentary

"...sum remains the same: That the growth of runaway capitalism began in the late 19th century with the transition..."

May 1, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Whitney Wolfe Herd, Bob Odenkirk, M. Night Shyamalan to Speak at SXSW

Plus Jim Belushi on weed and T Bone Burnett on surveillance capitalism

"...a conversation – of all things – about surveillance capitalism; and Jim Belushi adds to the conference’s emergent “Cannabusiness”..."

Dec. 11, 2019 SXSW Post by Kevin Curtin

Ben Fountain on Beautiful Country Burn Again

In his new book, the author lights up 2016 to make sense of that crazy, intense year

"...just can't deal with the problems created by industrial capitalism." So Roosevelt, he saved the economy, he instituted a..."

Oct. 26, 2018 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Letters at 3AM: A Paradox of Oligarchy

'Am I my brother's keeper?' is the fundamental question of government

"...Bill acted on a simple principle. Call it "social capitalism." To be more precise, call it "nonauthoritarian social capitalism"..."

May 21, 2010 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM

The economic future of the United States is no longer in our hands

"...The world learned modern capitalism from America. We were supposedly the experts. With modifications,..."

Oct. 24, 2008 Column by Michael Ventura

The Last Last Sunday?

Austin organizing project contemplating its future

"...A few questions sharpen this point: Is corporate capitalism compatible with real democracy? Can we continue to believe..."

June 22, 2007 News Feature by Robert Jensen

Shot in the Dark

The Texas Documentary Tour presents Paul Devlin's 'Power Trip'

"...at least that's the way it was until American-style capitalism came knocking...."

Nov. 4, 2005 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...well-intentioned people working for the causes of anti-poverty, anti-trade, anti-capitalism, and even Islamic terrorism...."

Sept. 30, 2005 Column

Ventura's Faulty Economic Theory

"...well-intentioned people working for the causes of anti-poverty, anti-trade, anti-capitalism, and even Islamic terrorism. It's not the conclusion that..."

Sept. 23, 2005 Postmarks

U.S. More Fascist Than Capitalist

"...sure many of the readers and writers know what capitalism means. The Chronicle is a leftist rag, which is..."

Aug. 30, 2005 Postmarks

The Hightower Report

Let's rein in CEO pay; and, 'conservatives' support Big Brotherism

"...being paid what the market will bear. It's how capitalism works, so get over it...."

Nov. 5, 2004 News Column by Jim Hightower

'It All Leads Back to Texas'

Robert Bryce on the Texas-Washington-international crony network

"...Texas, Made in Texas, Michael Lind argues that Texas capitalism is different – that it's a throwback to feudalism,..."

June 18, 2004 News Feature by Michael King

Don't Believe the Hype

Local Digiterati on the Good, the Bad, and the Internet in Between

"...we can blame the problems of late, late, super-late capitalism solely on the Internet...."

Jan. 28, 2000 Screens Feature by Jon Lebkowsky

Money, It's a Gas

Economics, schmeconomics: Chronicle reviewer Roger Gathman compiles the latest books about the (almost) first commodity, money.

"...Turbo-Capitalism: Winners and Losers in the Global Economy by Edward..."

Jan. 14, 2000 Books Feature by Roger Gathman

Angela Davis Closes Out UT's Inaugural Black Matters Conference

Educator and former political prisoner captivates with keynote address

"...writers, especially Cedric Williams, whom she noted "insisted that capitalism was erected on the backs of black people and..."

Oct. 7, 2016 News Feature by Kahron Spearman

Gay Place: We do!

It's the Fourth! Celebrate the rainbow and the Pink, White, and Sky Blue!

"...so is the Revolutionary Alliance of Trans People Against Capitalism (RATPAC) and they are hosting F*ck the Fourth featuring..."

July 3, 2015 Column by Kate X Messer

Letters at 3AM: That Word 'Oligarchy'

Oligarchy is upon us, claw and beak, and has been for some time

"...on p.58: Polls reported the "striking finding ... that capitalism's reputation is severely dented. In Europe 76% of respondents..."

July 11, 2014 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM: Snyder 'R' Us

Despite the illusion of autonomy, we have been colonized by the Oligarchy

"...buy more cheaply than was possible in classic entrepreneurial capitalism, but their money leaves town. In entrepreneurial capitalism, the..."

June 13, 2014 Column by Michael Ventura

Letters at 3AM: Flash Mob Dance Revolution: Part 1

It is only a matter of time before an interconnected world work force begins to ask, 'Who are we really working for?'

"...Subtitle: "The Worldwide End of Capitalism and Its Replacement by a Mode of Commerce for..."

Nov. 4, 2011 Column by Michael Ventura

Happenings

March 27-April 3

"...questioning the assumption that there is no alternative to capitalism. TINA Be Damned: Alternatives to Corporate Capitalism: Noon, UT..."

March 28, 2008 News Feature

She Is Conann

Barbaric vision of how aging means eating your own youth.

"...once had, the barbarism of the opportunism in cynical capitalism, and passing on this “viral” barbarism to the youth,..."

Feb. 2, 2024 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

The Austin Chronic: SXSW Is High on Psychedelics, as Cannabis Programming Wanes

Conference programming manager Adam Wode explains why South by Southwest is turning on to psychoactive substances

"...told – so it isn't completely steered toward letting capitalism do capitalism in this space."..."

Jan. 5, 2024 Column by Kevin Curtin

The Delinquents

Argentine crime fable is tricksy and charming

"...existence as just another cog in the wheel of capitalism. Morán’s scheme includes the jail time he will serve..."

Nov. 10, 2023 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

The Killer

Fincher and Fassbender deflate the assassin myth

"...and amplifies Fincher and Walker's ultimate point about modern capitalism. The finale may infuriate some, but in this sharp-edged..."

Oct. 27, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Down This Mean Sixth Street in Austin Noir

Akashic Books brings its crime-fiction anthology series to bloody up our changing metropolis

"...is one of the best ways to explore American capitalism in general – because we're resistant to the money..."

June 30, 2023 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

White Noise

Can Don DeLillo's postmodern landmark make it to the actual future?

"...villain here being either modern society itself or late-stage capitalism, take your pick (but why not both?)...."

Dec. 9, 2022 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Freeland

Moving stoner drama finds the downside of going legit

"...Devi and her old running buddy, Ray (Craven), frothing-at-the-mouth capitalism, and the emerging communicative and emotional gaps opening between..."

Oct. 15, 2021 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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