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"We owe others our language, our history, our art, our survival, our neighborhood, our relationships . . . our ability to defy social conventions as well as support these conventions. . . . None of us is alone." -Toni Morrison read.dukeupress.edu/public-culture…

✨New Essay! ✨ Who is responsible when money systems break down? A 1934 exchange between W.E.B. Du Bois & a Christian monetary reformer offers a powerful lesson about money politics & the burdens placed on Black communities. Please share! moneyontheleft.org/2025/07/31/a-f…

"We need infrastructures that enact the same solidarity and flexibility we already extend to each other, honoring diverse valuations of what work is important, and agreeing to receive what others provision—even when it comes in unfamiliar forms." moneyontheleft.org/2025/07/28/its…

No one says that he is a Nominalist, because nobody is anything else. -Jorge Luis Borges read.dukeupress.edu/public-culture…

"[A]nalogy allows different varieties of contribution, need, and entitlement to resonate with one another—to lean in, adjust, and coordinate without collapsing into sameness." moneyontheleft.org/2025/07/20/acc…

"Analog critique ... rejects the mediaphobic metaphys- ics that underwrites the majority of modern Western thought." read.dukeupress.edu/public-culture…

By tracing the history of this struggle from the early 20th century to the present, Raghavan offers a forward-looking vision for how to build a durable consumer financial protection regime capable of reclaiming democratic authority in the post-Trump era. moneyontheleft.org/2025/08/01/the…

"The grammar of cinematic continuity was not incidental. It mirrored and anticipated the grammar of white fiscal governance." moneyontheleft.org/2025/08/05/jim…

From Scott Ferguson's recent essay, "Analog Critique; or, Isn't Money Queer? Available at Public Culture. read.dukeupress.edu/public-culture…

"[N]aming is not just rhetorical. If monetary silencing thrives in the absence of coalitional imagination, then how we describe monetary practices helps form the context in which public futures can be seen."

Raghavan argues that consumer financial protection is a potentially radical response to the “finance franchise,” a predominantly anti-democratic process by which modern governments delegate the money creation process to private actors like banks. moneyontheleft.org/2025/08/01/the…

A Forgotten Letter to W.E.B. Du Bois: Monetary Populism and the Scapegoating of Black Political Life moneyontheleft.org/2025/07/31/a-f…

"[Dominant] narratives and practices naturalize the idea of the dollar as finite, pre‑existing, and self‑contained, when in fact its continuity depends on countless points of issuance and coordination." moneyontheleft.org/2025/08/07/not…

We speak with Vijay Raghavan, Professor of Law at the Brooklyn Law School, about his recent article, “The Radical Potential of Consumer Financial Protection,” published in Boston College Law Review in April 2025. moneyontheleft.org/2025/08/01/the…