Essays

Conflict In Israel-Palestine

A New Judaism?*

By Menachem Klein

A fundamental question: “Are we, Israelis, still Jews?”, asked the philosopher Ernest Simon in 1953.[1] What looks like a provocative…

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A Humanist Perspective on the Causes, Reasonings and Consequences of the Israeli-Palestinian War

By Amal Jamal

Introduction Wars always cause human suffering, even when they are justified. Although suffering is not measurable, it is possible to…

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Progress And Regress In American Politics

Has Labor Reawakened?

By Melvyn Dubofsky

For the past four decades the labor movement in the United States has been somnolent. Ever since the administration of…

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The Backlash Continues: How Two Recent SCOTUS Rulings Pose a Threat to LGBTQ+ and Especially Trans and Gender Non-Binary Persons

By Loren T. Cannon

Our Present Context My research and analysis of the backlash against LGBTQ+ and trans inclusion since the Obergefell decision of…

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The Persistence Of Trumpism

The Rise of Trumpism

By Larry N. Gerston

In today’s politics, Donald Trump supporters praise him as welcome relief to what they consider failed politics and policies.  Trump…

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Trump and Trumpism: An American Brand of Fascism

By Andrew Kolin

All too often, pundits depict Trump and Trumpism as a unique expression of political extremism, but Trumpism is not entirely…

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Philosophical Interventions

Africa, We the Underdeveloped: Wynter’s Discontent in the Light of Hegel’s Conception of Development

By Frank M. Kirkland

*Originally presented at the Caribbean Philosophical Association, Brown University, June 2019 Introduction A passing note, couched in one of the…

Erich Fromm’s Contribution to Critical Theory

By Rainer Funk

Born in Frankfurt am Main in 1900, Erich Fromm completed a sociological dissertation with Alfred Weber at the University of…

Kant After Three Centuries

By Allen Wood

April 22, 2024 was Immanuel Kant’s three-hundredth birthday. Kant is the most influential modern European philosopher, viewed as a direct…

Marcuse’s Most Famous Student: Angela Davis on Critical Theory and German Idealism*

By Joy James

*This article is adapted from a chapter in Joy James’s new book, Contextualizing Angela Davis: The Agency and Identity of Icon.…

Review Essays

Pasolini’s Aesthetics

By Mark Epstein

Works Discussed: Pier Paolo Pasolini, Heretical Aesthetics: Pasolini on Painting, edited and translated by Ara H. Merjian and Alessandro Giammei…

Book Review

Determinism and Freedom: A Review of Michael Löwy’s Rosa Luxemburg: The Incendiary Spark

By Peter Hudis

Few thinkers in the radical left have had a more sustained and creative engagement with the thought of Rosa Luxemburg…

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Joy James’s New Bones Abolition

By Marsha Hinds Myrie

New Bones Abolition: Captive Maternal Agency and the (after)life of Erica Garner is an urgent and cogent addition to the…

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Fred Camper’s Seeking Brakhage

By Brian Robert Hischier

Early in the volume of Fred Camper’s collected writings on the films of Stan Brakhage, an essay appears titled “Senses…

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Chelsea Schields’s Offshore Attachments

By Marybeth Tamborra

“The offshore accounts for the archipelagos of legal pluralism, extraterritoriality, and supposed exception forged by colonial powers and redefined in…

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2024: Vol. 23, No. 2

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2024: Vol. 23, No. 2


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