Essays
Domination and Chaos: India’s Radical Conservatism
Ideology is the most devilish variation of the lie – Hannah Arendt To speak of reaction is to counterpose it…
Lula, Brazil, and a World in Flux
The contentious United Nations COP30 climate summit, held in November 2025 in Belém, Brazil, provides a useful reference point for…
Implementing Project 2025: Day One and After
I won’t be a dictator, “except on day one” – Donald Trump Axios (Basu & Davis, 2024) holds that President…
The Protestant Ethic after 120 Years
Commemorating a scholarly text now known only by title demands a certain circumspection that would not be required to honor…
Fanon at 100
Frantz Fanon and the Crisis of Our Current Transitional Period
July 20th 2025 was the 100th birthday of Frantz Fanon that remarkable thinker, writer psychoanalyst and revolutionary from the Caribbean…
Fanon and Anti-Fascism
I: Our Neo-Fascist reality Trump’s “big beautiful bill” is another massive neoliberal redistribution of US capitalist wealth that has gutted…
The Crisis of Masculinity
Masculine Rage at the End of the World
51 year old divorce raped man who is physically, financially, emotionally, and spiritually broken. Gave everything I had doing a…
Making Racism and Misogyny Great Again: The Emptiness and Misplaced Meaning of Angry Young White Men
History shows us that every demagogical dictator requires an equal and opposite enemy, the Evil Other whose mere existence threatens…
Review Essay
Crumb, Early and Late
Works Discussed: The Life and Death of Fritz the Cat, by Robert Crumb. Seattle: Fantagraphics, 2026. Tales of Paranoia. By…
Book Reviews
Timothy Scott Johnson’s Repeating Revolutions: The French Revolution and the Algerian War
Repeating Revolutions examines how France’s revolutionary past became a working political language during Algeria’s struggle for decolonization from the 1930s…
William M. Paris’ Race, Time, and Utopia: Critical Theory and the Process of Emancipation
In this book, philosopher William Paris develops an account of racial injustice that centers the relationship between freedom and time.…
Domenico Losurdo’s Western Marxism: How it was Born, How it Died, How it Can Be Reborn
Italian Marxist Domenico Losurdo’s screed against Western Marxism is a product of the Cold War that dominated global politics between the…
Paul Buhle and Raymond Tyler’s Partisans
A chapter by comic artist Kevin Pyle in the new graphic non-fiction collection Partisans centers on the “spomeniks,” massive, abstract…
Noah Isenberg’s Edger G. Ulmer: A Filmmaker at the Margins
Perhaps now, a decade or so since the landmark study of a unique but mostly forgotten director, can the importance…
Meera Nanda’s Postcolonial Theory and the Making of Hindu Nationalism
Once confined to the arcane recesses of literary theory seminar rooms and abstruse academic journals, postcolonialism can say today that…
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2025: Vol. 24, No. 1-2
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2025: Vol. 24, No. 1-2
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