Malcolm Harris is a freelance writer and editor at The New Inquiry. A former activist with the Occupy Wallstreet movement, his books include What’s Left: Three Paths Through the Planetary Crisis (2025); Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World (2023); Shit Is Fucked Up and Bullshit: History Since the End of History (2020); and Kids These Days: The Making of Millennials (2017): a social critique of American millennials as human capital. His shorter essays have appeared in the New Republic, Bookforum, the Village Voice, n+1, and the New York Times Magazine.