John Patrick Leary
John Patrick Leary is the author of Keywords: The New Language of Capitalism and A Cultural History of Underdevelopment: Latin America in the US Imagination. He teaches social studies in the Philadelphia public schools.
Blog
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Keywords for Capitalism: A Field Guide for Decoding the Language of Power, Society, and Politics
Join John Patrick Leary & Greg Grandin on the evasions, neologisms, and half-truths used to disguise the horrors of our political system.
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"Choice" and Coronavirus Capitalism
An excerpt from Keywords: The New Language of Capitalism, a book which explores the history and common usage of major terms in the everyday language of capitalism.