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Stealing for the Greater Good: Theft as Social Protest
By Jeff Harding   |   June 23, 2026

Recently a new word just popped up courtesy of the NY Times: “microlooting.”  Microlooting is a word that justifies petty theft (shoplifting) as a political statement. The idea is that as long as you are stealing from “big corporations” it is a protest. NYT reporter Nadja Spiegelman interviewed The New Yorker writer Jia Tolentino and […]