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According to his own last words on the subject, just before his death, Orwell was a supporter of Socialism and of the British Labour Party which had swept to power in 1945. Before then, for most of his writing career, certainly from The Road to Wigan Pier in 1937 onwards, George Orwell was an avowed…
Read Full Article...You open the newspaper on any day and you can be sure to find at least one front-page article related to the Middle East. It will be something ugly or depressing, something implicating the United States directly or indirectly — Israel and Palestine, the Iraq war, the standoff with Iran, the war in Afghanistan, the…
Read Full Article...I) Ahmadinejad and Holocaust Denial On September 18th 2009 the Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gave a speech, in the form of a Friday sermon, on the occasion of Al-Quds, or Jerusalem Day in Iran. Based on a translation of the original radio broadcast (not the official Farsi version issued by the government) here is some…
Read Full Article...In October of 1985, as a twenty-five-year-old graduate student, I went to East Germany for a nine-month study visit. I stayed in East Germany until the end of July, 1986. My visit was made possible by an organization called the “Liga für Völkerfreundschaft,” which can be roughly translated as “League for International Friendship.” This was…
Read Full Article...I. Introduction: A Night to Remember So that We Can Forget November 4th, 2008 was a night that African Americans will always remember. It was also a night that most white Americans will also remember. Unfortunately, it was also a night that allowed many Americans to forget that which should never be forgotten. What have we…
Read Full Article...“Recognition” has become a keyword of our time. Hegel’s old figure of “the struggle for recognition” finds new purchase as a rapidly globalizing capitalism accelerates transcultural contacts, fracturing interpretative schemata, pluralizing value horizons, and politicizing identities and differences. Demands for ‘recognition of difference’ fuel struggles of groups mobilized under the banners of nationality, “race”-ethnicity, gender,…
Read Full Article...“The only possible reawakening is the popular initiative in which the power of an idea will take root.” —Alain Badiou Across the globe, young people are speaking out. They are using their voices and bodies to redefine the boundaries of the possible and to protest the crushing currents of neoliberal regimes…
Read Full Article...HEGEL AND THE SAINT-DOMINGUE REVOLUTION – ‘PERFECT TOGETHER?’: I. Introduction As Susan Buck-Morss herself has stated, the article “Hegel and Haiti” was something of “an intellectual event when it appeared in Critical Inquiry in summer 2000.”1 She is being modest. The article created a critically effervescent discussion as it burst onto the academic scene regarding Hegel’s…
Read Full Article...The dominant business model for American higher education has collapsed, taking with it the financial integrity, academic quality, access, and independence that college and universities once enjoyed. Since the end of World War II two business models have defined the operations of American higher education. The first was the Dewey model that lasted until the…
Read Full Article...The long-lasting relationship between George Orwell and Dwight Macdonald is at once intriguing and illuminating. On a personal level, one can see the strong personal affinity and similarities of temperament between them, but on the political level their political disagreements on an issue so fundamental as the Second World War were equally apparent, especially in…
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2024: Vol. 23, No. 2
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2024: Vol. 23, No. 2
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