Authors / Madeleine Baker
Madeleine Baker is a historian at Harvard, the senior editor of The Drift, and the author of Make Your Own Job: How the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic Exhausted America.
Essay
Higher Ed’s Bad Bargain
To salvage academic freedom amid Trump’s attacks, universities must break from their Cold War compromise with US militarism.
Madeleine Baker October 31, 2025
Analysis
Revaluing the Strike
Rather than viewing strikes as a last-resort bargaining tactic, the labor movement must embrace them as engines of political transformation.
Madeleine Baker September 27, 2023
Essay
The Right to Grieve
To demand the freedom to mourn—not on the employer’s schedule, but in our own time—is to reject the cruel rhythms of the capitalist status quo.
Madeleine Baker March 13, 2023
