Jason Hickel

@jasonhickel

Anthropologist at the London School of Economics // Writing in The Guardian & Al Jazeera // Global political economy and development with a view from the South

London / Swaziland
www2.lse.ac.uk/anthropology/p…
Joined September 2011
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    Nov 6

    Our money system is heating up the planet. It's time for a new one.

    78 retweets 66 likes
  2. Nov 18

    I'm so old I remember when a $25 million settlement over fraud allegations against a president-elect would have been a big deal.

    707 retweets 1,137 likes
  3. 14 hours ago

    Literal Nazi: "I am a literal Nazi." Media: "This alt-right reactionary is stirring up nationalist fervor."

    12,115 retweets 19,421 likes
  4. 8 hours ago

    Maybe the electoral college is undemocratic. But it could be used to stop Trump becoming president.

  5. 11 hours ago

    Poor Citizens to Receive $1,320 a Month in Canada's 'No Strings Attached' Basic Income Trial

    1 retweet 5 likes
  6. Nov 20

    Crowdfunding for independent media in the UK. A very worthwhile cause in these times.

    1 like
  7. Nov 19

    Great initiative by climate-conscious academics to get academics to fly less:

    6 retweets 5 likes
  8. Nov 13

    So Bannon is coordinating with Marion Maréchal-Le Pen instead of the actual French government?

    244 retweets 162 likes
  9. Nov 15

    How the GOP won the election by disenfranchising young and African American voters.

    4 retweets 6 likes
  10. Nov 15

    Neoliberalism: the deep story that lies beneath Donald Trump’s triumph | George Monbiot

    10 retweets 5 likes
  11. Nov 14

    So much for "draining the swamp": Donald Trump is surrounding himself with establishment insiders.

    2 retweets 5 likes
  12. Nov 13

    If California Calexits, can it join the EU? 🤔

    2 retweets 11 likes
  13. Jul 17

    Nothing says "We can relate to the working class" like two old white rich men sitting on gold chairs.

    1,780 retweets 2,054 likes
  14. Nov 12

    Excellent video response to the Trump election by the team at

    3 retweets 6 likes
  15. Nov 11

    It was the Democrats' embrace of neoliberalism that won it for Trump | Naomi Klein

    6 retweets 15 likes
  16. Nov 10

    Obama's gift to Trump.

    Remember how you legalized ✔Assassinating anyone ✔NSA mass spying ✔Prosecuting publishers ✔CIA drones everywhere It's all Trumps in 71 days
    18 retweets 12 likes
  17. Nov 9

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  19. Nov 8

    "To say masculinity is 'in crisis' is like saying racism was 'in crisis' in Civil Rights era America." - Grayson Perry, The Descent of Man

    4 retweets 11 likes
  20. Nov 7

    An interesting take on basic income by Yanis Varoufakis. Fund it by taxing capital, not labour.

    30 retweets 36 likes

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