Book Reviews
At a time of deepening political and moral crisis, not only for the Israeli government but for the entire Zionist project, Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz has produced a book purporting to set the record straight by rebutting all the accusations leveled against “the sole outpost of liberty and democracy in the Middle East.” The…
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…
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…
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.…
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,…
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…
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”…
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…
“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…
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…
Latest Issue
2025: Vol. 24, No. 1-2
Latest Issue
2025: Vol. 24, No. 1-2
Between The Issues
