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Ben Fong

Benjamin Y. Fong

Associate Teaching Professor
Benjamin Y. Fong is Honors Faculty Fellow at Barrett, the Honors College and Associate Director of the Center for Work & Democracy at Arizona State University.He is the author of Quick Fixes: Drugs in America from Prohibition to the 21st Century Binge (Verso 2023). He is also the co-editor (with Craig Calhoun) of The Green New Deal and the Future of Work (Columbia, 2022) and the author of Death and Mastery: Psychoanalytic Drive Theory and the Subject of Late Capitalism (Columbia, 2016). His writing can be found in Jacobin, Catalyst, The New York Times, Current Affairs, The Point, and other popular outlets, and it is collected at benfong.com.

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