Catherine Liu

is a professor of film and media studies at UC Irvine and the

of Virtue Hoarders, a seminalcritique of the professional–managerial class. Her Substack community,

is a safe space for recovering liberals and aspiring class traitors, and her central point of publication on everything from the hipster onesie to the accelerationist dream city. Her recent series, Gangster Capitalism, examined how private equity’s tactics of domination and coercion mirror those of real and fictional criminal organizations—unfolding across seminars, events, and even

A staple of left political discourse, Liu's

frequently appears in Damage Magazine, Compact Mag, and on Doomscroll –

Her forthcoming book, Traumatized, set for release in early 2026, explores the liberal relationship to victimization and its aversion to class solidarity.