Book Review
‘Communism for Kids’—but mostly for grownups with imagination
December 27, 2018A reader with some background in socialist thinking will readily identify the hopeful, optimistic conclusion with some skepticism, smacking as it does of the early “utopians."
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The Iran agenda: America’s next “little” war
December 3, 2018The neocons behind the 2003 Iraq invasion that killed 500,000 and destabilized an entire region is: “If at first you don’t succeed, do the same thing again somewhere else.”
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“Race News”: Chronicling the Black press and fight for justice
March 9, 2018Black journalists in the commercial press packaged their mission of ending racial discrimination within a profit-oriented, objective presentation of current events, but "race news" wasn’t immune to politics.
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“A Queerly Joyful Noise”: LGBT choruses in theory and practice
January 10, 2018This is a complicated subject with a lot of moving ideas and parts.
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Review of “Reclaiming Gotham” misses de Blasio’s significance
November 15, 2017Bill de Blasio's win was a historic defeat of twenty-year Wall Street-Republican control of our city and a rejection of the discredited Democratic leadership’s neoliberal appeasement policies.
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