Biography
Benjamin Y. Fong is the Associate Director at the Center for Work & Democracy, and also an Honors Faculty Fellow at Barrett, the Honors College at Arizona State University. With Craig Calhoun, he is the co-editor of The Green New Deal and the Future of Work (Columbia, 2022), and he is the author of the forthcoming Quick Fixes: Drugs in America from Prohibition to the 21st Century Binge, which will be out with Verso in 2023. He is currently working on a project looking at the legacy of A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin, as well as a report on alternative labor strategies for the Center.
He's also written about the pernicious influence of nonprofits and foundations on politics; about coffee and cigarettes; about Medicare for All; about ballot initiatives; about why teaching racial justice isn't racial justice; about his admiration for Stan and Jan Berenstain; about pro-worker conservativism; and about psychoanalysis and critical theory. If you find the red thread connecting these things, do let him know.
(Image credit: Jacen Sievers, FLOWSTATE Films)