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Commemorating a scholarly text now known only by title demands a certain circumspection that would not be required to honor a distinguished song, movie, or novel, each of which would boast a contingent of afficionados for whom allocating respect to the cultural product in question would be “natural.” Music in particular summons up enthusiastic endorsement…
Read Full Article... about The Protestant Ethic after 120 YearsJuly 20th 2025 was the 100th birthday of Frantz Fanon that remarkable thinker, writer psychoanalyst and revolutionary from the Caribbean Island of Martinique. There were many celebrations of this very special milestone in many venues across the world, including the big one organized by the Caribbean Philosophical Association (CPA) in Martinique. For me, it was…
Read Full Article... about Frantz Fanon and the Crisis of Our Current Transitional PeriodI: Our Neo-Fascist reality Trump’s “big beautiful bill” is another massive neoliberal redistribution of US capitalist wealth that has gutted welfare reforms won by African-American struggles of the 1950s and 1960s. As much as the last piece of the puzzle, the military, is still being tailored to his authoritarian control, the massive budget for ICE…
Read Full Article... about Fanon and Anti-Fascism51 year old divorce raped man who is physically, financially, emotionally, and spiritually broken. Gave everything I had doing a dirty, dangerous, discomfortable industrial construction job only to be thrown out like garbage once she saw better. I thought love was forever but now I see that it was all a lie and I was…
Read Full Article... about Masculine Rage at the End of the WorldMaking 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 the demagogue’s people. The leader then calls for the good people to annihilate the Evil Other, and all traces of their alleged influence. In short, we are witnessing the rise of American fascism. What is…
Read Full Article... about Making Racism and Misogyny Great Again: The Emptiness and Misplaced Meaning of Angry Young White Men“One sees by experience in our times that the princes who have done great things are those who have taken little account of faith and have known how to get around men ‘s brains with their astuteness”.[1] This observation may seem to come from a populist think tank but it is from 1532 (Machiavelli, The…
Read Full Article... about Fraud: The New Normal in GovernmentSince regaining the presidency in 2025, Donald Trump and his allies have launched a devastating attack on American democracy. The targets of this attack are the checks and balances, and the civil and political rights that have provided the foundations of our constitutional system for over two centuries. In the few short months of Trump’s…
Read Full Article... about Democratic Resilience in the United States: Containing Trump’s Threat to DemocracyA strange thing happened at a conference on “Decolonization of the Indian Mind” organized by a Hindu nationalist outfit and attended by the bigwigs of the RSS (Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh), the politburo of the Hindu Right. [1] One of the speakers, Rakesh Sinha, a member of the upper house of the Indian parliament and a…
Read Full Article... about India’s Conservative Revolution: The Postcolonial Left meets the Hindu RightOn September 22 2025 a 24 hour general strike was called by several grassroot unions in Italy to protests the complicity of the Italian government with the Israeli genocide in Gaza, support the effort of the Global Sumud Flottilla to bring humanitarian help to the starving population, and call for an end to the war…
Read Full Article... about Eventful Protests Against the Israeli Genocide: The Italian “Hot Summer” for a Free PalestineIn today’s Russia, memory politics has supplanted ideology as the primary instrument of political legitimation. This hinders efforts to explain the unique features of Putinism by approaching it as a political ideology. Is Putinism a Form of Fascism? Investigating Putinism means understanding why, for the past 25 years, Russians have accepted life in a…
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Latest Issue
2026: Vol. 25, No. 1
Latest Issue
2026: Vol. 25, No. 1
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