Book Reviews
BOOKS DISCUSSED IN THIS ESSAY: No End To War By Walter Laqueur A Long Short War By Christopher Hitchens Why We Are At War By Norman Mailer What Next By Walter Mosley Why Do People Hate America? By Ziauddin Sardar and Merryl Wyn Davies The War Against the Terror Masters By Michael Ledeen Public discourse…
Read Full Article...Rum and revolution have been associated together for centuries. Rum is “the global spirit with its warm beating heart in the Caribbean,” the one factor that is shared by all the cultures of the region, and enthusiastically drunk by the descendants of those who were enslaved to produce it. I began drinking rum with uninformed enthusiasm…
Read Full Article...The Land Beyond Promise: Israel, Likud and The Zionist Dream by Colin Shindler Palestine/Israel: Peace or Apartheid by Marwan Bishara I In The Land Beyond Promise Colin Shindler provides an historical perspective on one of Israel’s main political movements, namely, the Nationalistic-Right. In particular, Shindler traces the development of Israel’s biggest political party, the Likud.…
Read Full Article...Just as the building trades workers’ attack on New York anti-war demonstrators in May 1970 came to symbolize the gulf between labor and the new social movements, the November 1999 Seattle demonstrations against the World Trade Organization now evoke the hope of cooperation between them. Bringing together blue-collar union members, environmentalists costumed as sea turtles,…
Read Full Article...New Bones Abolition: Captive Maternal Agency and the (after)life of Erica Garner is an urgent and cogent addition to the literature about protest and movement generally and Black mobilizing and resistance specifically. Joy James harnesses the tragic story of Erica Garner’s death from a broken heart – a heart that could not withstand the unequal…
Read Full Article...Few thinkers in the radical left have had a more sustained and creative engagement with the thought of Rosa Luxemburg than Michael Löwy. After encountering several of her works as a teenager in Brazil in the mid-1950s, he arrived in France in the early 1960s with the “conscious and deliberate objective”[1] of providing a “Luxemburgist”…
Read Full Article...Early in the volume of Fred Camper’s collected writings on the films of Stan Brakhage, an essay appears titled “Senses Working Overtime.” Published shortly after Brakhage’s death, Camper’s essay presents testimonials and anecdotes from students and filmmakers who knew him. As the flaws of Brakhage the human are shared alongside moments of awe, present-day readers…
Read Full Article...“The offshore accounts for the archipelagos of legal pluralism, extraterritoriality, and supposed exception forged by colonial powers and redefined in the context of contemporary capitalism to reproduce wealth. Even as these spaces appear as expectations, they are, in fact, intimately imbricated in and make possible their seemingly anti-theses: the ‘normal’ business of onshore capitalism and…
Read Full Article...Can’t we all just get along? If not, do you mind awfully if we do away with you? Paul Berman argues that realists and leftists alike ignore irrational forces—“pathological mass movements”—that motivate global violence. He accordingly urges that liberal Western societies intervene militarily to stamp out these threats with, as the venerable saying goes, extreme…
Read Full Article...There are, to be sure, intelligent right-wing critiques of socialism, as both concept and practice. Joshua Muravchik’s The Rise and Fall of Socialism, however, does not constitute such a critique. Its greatest failing is that it simply has nothing new to say, and as is to be expected, what it does have to say is…
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