Essays
Democracy in Danger
Fraud: The New Normal in Government
“One sees by experience in our times that the princes who have done great things are those who have taken…
Read Full Article...
Democratic Resilience in the United States: Containing Trump’s Threat to Democracy
Since regaining the presidency in 2025, Donald Trump and his allies have launched a devastating attack on American democracy. The…
Read Full Article...Global Tensions
India’s Conservative Revolution: The Postcolonial Left meets the Hindu Right
A strange thing happened at a conference on “Decolonization of the Indian Mind” organized by a Hindu nationalist outfit and…
Read Full Article...
Eventful Protests Against the Israeli Genocide: The Italian “Hot Summer” for a Free Palestine
On September 22 2025 a 24 hour general strike was called by several grassroot unions in Italy to protests the…
Read Full Article...
Investigating Putinism: History Over Ideology
In today’s Russia, memory politics has supplanted ideology as the primary instrument of political legitimation. This hinders efforts to explain…
Read Full Article...
Apocalypse Now? The Evolution of Trump’s Policies Towards Iran
In a March 30, 2025, telephone interview with Kristen Welker of NBC News, U.S. President Donald Trump stated: “If they…
Read Full Article...The Assault on Public Goods
A Termite’s Guide to Undermining SNAP
Conservatives long have had it in for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as food stamps.[1] Ronald Reagan…
Read Full Article...
The Government Attack on Public Health Research
I have been conducting transdisciplinary research on HIV/AIDS, COVID, overdose, and related topics for over forty years. In my HIV…
Read Full Article...
American Higher Education in the Era of Trump
Introduction: The Faustian Bargain Higher education in America long ago sold its soul to corporate America. Whether through its heavy…
Read Full Article...Socialism and the City
Mamdani, a “New Municipalism”, and the Undertow of Party Elites
The fight is on for the future of cities and with it the future of democracy in the country. The…
A Socialist Mayor for New York? What History Suggests
In the spring of 1910 newspapers around the country speculated about what was going to happen in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, as…
Aesthetic Reevaluations
Reflections on Shelley’s The Cenci: Transgression, Exorcism, Sacrifice
The true difference between Byron and Shelley consists in this, that those who understand and love them consider it fortunate…
The Metonymy of Light: Three Early Works by Stan Brakhage
At the heart of preeminent American avant-gardist Stan Brakhage’s cinema, there lies a central tension or struggle between abstraction and…
Author Meets Critics: Michael J. Thompson's Twilight of the Self
Book Reviews
Benjamin Balthaser’s Citizens of the Whole World
This volume, by a cultural scholar teaching at Indiana University, South Bend, could not have appeared at a more auspicious…
Paul Chaisty and Stephen Whitefield’s How Russians Understand the New Russia
Chaisty and Whitefield offer a compelling and meticulously researched investigation into how Russian citizens have come to understand, and sometimes…
David Golumbia’s Cyberlibertarianism
In Cyberlibertarianism: The Right-Wing Politics of Digital Technology, David Golumbia takes it upon himself to defend democracy from what he…
Harold Schechter and Eric Powell’s Dr. Werthless
The collapse in recent years of a major comic distributor, leaving hundreds of thousands of comics of all kinds unsold,…
Roger Frie’s Edge of Catastrophe: Erich Fromm, Fascism, and the Holocaust
Roger Frie’s new book on an underexplored aspect of Fromm’s life, namely, his experiences with Nazism and the Holocaust is…
Latest Issue
2025: Vol. 24, No. 1-2
Latest Issue
2025: Vol. 24, No. 1-2
Between The Issues
From The Archives
