Books
Resistance, the unverifiable, and the horse in Ali Smith’s ‘Gliff’
June 16, 2026Smith argues that defiance is a persistent, improvised salving: tending wounds, remembering the erased, and walking north toward the unverifiable.
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Ernest Poole’s ‘The Harbor’: A working-class classic that still matters
May 14, 2026"The Harbor" does for the ship and dock workers of New York what Upton Sinclair’s "The Jungle" did for the immigrants working in the meatpacking industry in Chicago.
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Gavin Newsom’s autobiographical ‘Young Man in a Hurry’: More and less
May 12, 2026If you love reading political memoirs, this is that, but it's not exactly a bold statement of the kind of America Newsom would like to usher in once moving into the White House.
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‘Animal Farm’ 2026: An oversimplified, yet entertaining, adaptation of the Orwell classic
April 24, 2026The new film downplays the novel’s original anti-Stalinist focus, providing the chance for a fresh interpretation.
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How counter-revolution, settler colonialism, and regime change wars influence imperialism today
April 23, 2026Humanity is still under threat from this capitalist-imperialist colonialist system. We are in another counter-revolutionary moment not only domestically, but internationally as well.
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