Jan 31, 2023 | Book Reviews, Reviews
A rereading of “City of Quartz” by the recently departed Mike Davis is necessary to appreciate how brilliant it is, with insights dripping from every page, delivered in writing that is beautiful in its smoldering anger. Who else could convey, by invoking...
Jan 28, 2023 | Book Reviews, Reviews
Stalin by Ronald Grigor Suny is not a hatchet-job on Stalin like many other works by liberal scholars. Based on documents in Soviet archives made available after the Soviet collapse, this is a surprisingly even-handed account of the Soviet leader’s pre-Russian...
Dec 12, 2022 | Book Reviews, Reviews
Others have made the point that America has a caste system, but no one has made it as effectively as Isabel Wilkerson. By a close comparison between the US caste system and those of India and Nazi Germany and weaving the evidence from decades of sociological...
Nov 16, 2022 | Book Reviews, Reviews
Is the radical right pure hate and all emotion? Well, they may start from that, but humans that they are, some of them try to rationalize their hates and fears into theories that, though detached from reality, literally provide the ammunition that enables their...
Oct 12, 2022 | Book Reviews, Reviews
Most accounts of contemporary politics in the US acknowledge the centrality of white nationalism in right-wing mobilization. But some analysts would say that it is not the only motivation. There is a class dimension to right-wing mobilization. In an important...
