I'm the author of Quick Fixes: Drugs in America from Prohibition to the 21st Century Binge (Verso, 2023).
Here are some interviews I've done for the book: NYC Book Launch | Current Affairs | TrueAnon | Ordinary Unhappiness | New Books Network | Jacobin | This is Revolution
This is the book's first paragraph (hover to zoom):
I teach at Arizona State University, where I'm also associate director of its Center for Work & Democracy...
My current research is on labor & logistics, and most of it goes up on a Substack I run called On the Seams...
I am also the author of Quick Fixes (see right-hand column), host and producer of the Organize the Unorganized: The Rise of the CIO podcast (also on Jacobin Radio), an editor at Damage magazine, and the writer of numerous things linked below...
You can reach me at benjamin.yenyi.fong ( at ) gmail ( dot ) com...
The Big Ten: How to Define a Logistics Cluster
Phenomenal World, December 20, 2025
Labor and Logistics
Phenomenal World, December 20, 2025
A Sober Look at Amazon's Automation Drive
Jacobin, December 10, 2025
Amazon's Layoffs Are Business as Usual, Not Omens of AI Doom
Jacobin, November 16, 2025
What Is Going On in the Grocery Industry? (an interview with former Whole Foods VP, Errol Schweizer)
Jacobin, October 14, 2025
Life Inside China's Gig Machine (an interview with Hu Anyan, author of I Deliver Parcels in Beijing)
Jacobin, October 10, 2025
Labor's Crisis Is Not a PR Problem (with Scott Jenkins)
Jacobin, September 10, 2025
Experiments in American Unions
Phenomenal World, July 16, 2025
The Responsible Socialism of Adolph Germer
Damage, June 30, 2025
Large-Unit NLRB Elections Column for Jacobin: May 2025 | April 2025 | March 2025 | February 2025 | January 2025
Amazon says it's a 'myth' that robots kill jobs. Here's the reality
The Guardian, May 8, 2025
As Trump Pushes Privatization of USPS, Amazon May Be Preparing to Take Over (with Jonathan Rosenblum)
Truthout, May 6, 2025
A New Golden Age for Labor? Not So Fast
The Nation, May 1, 2025
Organizing Logistics Chokepoints: Hitting Them Where It Hurts
New Labor Forum, April 11, 2025
How Useful Is 'Worker-to-Worker Unionism'?
Jacobin, March 21, 2025
A Labor Movement Beyond the NLRA?, promoting a new report from the Center for Work Democracy, of which I'm the lead author, entitled "Beyond the NLRB: Contemporary Strategies and Practices for Labor Movement Renewal"
Jacobin, February 13, 2025
Amazon's Retribution in Quebec Should Be a Wake-Up Call (with Jonathan Rosenblum, on what the news of Amazon shuttering its operation in Quebec means for organizing efforts)
Jacobin, January 29, 2025
Amazon's Sortation Centers Should Be a Key Target for Labor
Labor Notes, December 19, 2024
Labor's Gains? (on large-unit NLRB elections)
Phenomenal World, September 4, 2024
The Art of the Green New Deal (on Jobs to Move America's use of public procurement to raise labor standards)
Jacobin, May 19, 2024
We Can't Foreclose Grubbing Analysis (with Scott Jenkins, a response to Eric Blanc on workplace decentralization)
Damage, February 14, 2024
How Can Workers Organize Against Capital Today? (a review of John Womack's Labor Power and Strategy)
Catalyst, December 20, 2023
Strategic Disruption (against the "democratic politics vs. blowing things up" dichotomy)
Damage, November 29, 2023
You Should Know About Labor Leader John Brophy
Jacobin, March 25, 2023
Episode Pages + Bibliographies for Organize the Unorganized:
Ep1: A New Giant of Labor Emerges
Ep2: Industrial Workers Get Organized
Ep3: Power at the Point of Production
Ep4: The CIO's Culture of Unity
Ep5: Steel and the Soul of Capitalism
Ep6: From the Docks to the Killing Floors
Ep7: War
Ep8: Is There an Ending to the CIO?
Ep9: Lessons
Interviews for Organize the Unorganized:
Jeremy Brecher | Robert Cherny | Dorothy Sue Cobble | Lizabeth Cohen | Peter Cole | David Brody | Melvyn Dubofsky | Steve Fraser | Rick Halpern | William Jones | Nelson Lichtenstein | Erik Loomis | Ruth Milkman | Daniel Nelson | Bryan Palmer | Lisa Phillips | Ahmed White | James Young
Turn On, Tune In, Cash Out
Jacobin, March 24, 2025
FDA rejects MDMA-assisted therapy for PTSD treatment
The Conversation, August 12, 2024
Psilocybin legislation is helping psychedelic drugs make a comeback
The Conversation, August 2, 2024
Who Deserves Amphetamines? (a deep dive on America, ADHD, and amphetamines)
The Point, August 18, 2023
Moral Crusading is No Substitute for Mass Working-Class Politics (on lessons from the Noble Experiment)
Jacobin, July 14, 2023
One or the Other (a response to Leila Mechoui's review of Quick Fixes)
Damage, October 26, 2023
The Psychedelic Renaissance Is On the Verge of an Uneasy Enlightenment
Jacobin, August 7, 2022
The Sex Addiction Rabbit Hole
Damage, May 26, 2021
Knowledge is not Power: Why Cigarettes Still Appeal
Current Affairs, February 6, 2021
Unfair Trade (on coffee and modernity)
The Outline, April 3, 2020
Log Off (yes, the internet is bad for you)
Jacobin, November 29, 2018
Inventing the Weekend (oh, for Saint Monday)
Jacobin, July 6, 2018
The Lesson of Trump, Part II
Damage, November 8, 2024
The Jobs and Freedom Strategy (on A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin's political program from 1963-1968)
Catalyst, 7:2 (Summer 2023)
The Unfulfilled Promise of the Freedom Budget (an interview with Norman Hill)
Jacobin, August 1, 2023
Toward a Socialist Minimalism (on why we don't need to have strong opinions about everything)
Damage, May 24, 2023
Occupy in Retrospect (with Christie Offenbacher, correcting the idea that Occupy Wall Street "led" to the Bernie Sanders moment)
Catalyst, 5:4 (Winter 2022)
NGOism: The Politics of the Third Sector (with Melissa Naschek, laying out the history of foundations/nonprofits in the US and their effects on politics)
Catalyst, 5:1 (Spring 2021)
The Green New Deal and the Future of Work (an edited volume with Craig Calhoun)
Columbia University Press, 2022
The New Deal Against the Environmentalists: A Review of Neil Maher's Nature's New Deal
New Politics, May 31, 2020
Rediscovering Humanity in its Absence (a review of Peter Brown's The Wild Robot series)
Damage, July 9, 2025
Building Small Things (on the adult fascination with LEGOs)
Damage, December 26, 2024
Odd Man Out (on the decline of associational life in the United States and the fledgling attempts to rekindle it)
Damage, Issue #2 (Spring 2024)
Teaching Racial Justice Isn't Racial Justice
The New York Times, November 18, 2020
To Love and to Be Loved (on an overlooked possibility in Freud's "Instincts and their Vicissitudes")
European Journal of Psychoanalysis, December 9, 2022
Monsters of the Brain, Images of the Deity: Psychology and Religion in the Eighteenth Century
The Journal of Religion (October 2018)
In Praise of the Berenstains
Damage, March 10, 2021
Michelle Yeoh in the Multiverse of Me (a review of Everything, Everywhere, All at Once)
Damage, July 7, 2022
Death and Mastery: Psychoanalytic Drive Theory and the Subject of Late Capitalism
Columbia University Press, 2016
Society, Regression, Psychoanalysis, or 'Capitalism is Responsible for your Problems with your Girlfriend': On the Use of Psychoanalysis in the Work of the Frankfurt School (with Scott Jenkins)
The Sage Handbook of Frankfurt School Critical Theory, Volume 2 (London: SAGE Publications, 2018): 952-969
A Whole Climate of Critique: Psychoanalytic Politics Between Vitality and Obsolescence (with Phillip Henry, a review essay exploring the historiography of psychoanalysis through Eli Zaretsky's Political Freud)
Critical Historical Studies (Spring 2018)
Critical Attempts: Moishe Postone on Education (an interview Jeremy Cohan and I did with the late great Moishe Postone)
The Point, October 9, 2018
On Pleasure
The Los Angeles Review of Books' Philosophical Salon, August 21, 2016