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    The myth of the "moderate" American
    • Aug 9
    • 13 min

    The myth of the "moderate" American

    [This article was published at Compact magazine.] In the United States there exists today, and has existed since at least the 1950s, a...
    Classical music vs. mediocrity
    • Jul 30
    • 7 min

    Classical music vs. mediocrity

    On one side is the mediocrity of all functionaries. All bureaucrats. There’s no point in my writing about bureaucrats in the ordinary...
    Organized labor and the crisis of democracy
    • Jul 29
    • 8 min

    Organized labor and the crisis of democracy

    [This article was published at CommonDreams.org.] We live in a time when it’s become a boring cliché to say that democracy is under...
    Origins of the European state system
    • Jun 13
    • 30 min

    Origins of the European state system

    Reading Charles Tilly’s classic Coercion, Capital, and European States, AD 990–1992 (1992). Taking notes on it for myself, but also for...
    America's use of the atomic bomb on Japan
    • Jun 4
    • 12 min

    America's use of the atomic bomb on Japan

    A long time ago I posted some thoughts on America's use of the atomic bomb at the end of World War II. I happen to be reading parts of...
    Critical thoughts on feminism and social constructionism
    • Jun 1
    • 24 min

    Critical thoughts on feminism and social constructionism

    On various pages of this website and blog I've criticized some of the dogmas of feminism, for instance the social constructionist dogmas...
    Vivek Chibber's defense of materialism
    • May 29
    • 8 min

    Vivek Chibber's defense of materialism

    [This is a review published at H-Socialisms.] Vivek Chibber. The Class Matrix: Social Theory after the Cultural Turn. Harvard University...
    On stupidity and the excesses of wokeness
    • Apr 8
    • 9 min

    On stupidity and the excesses of wokeness

    One of the first laws of human existence, or at least of existence in class societies (determined by anti-human institutions that mold...
    Resisting fascism (a book review)
    • Oct 10, 2021
    • 9 min

    Resisting fascism (a book review)

    [This review was published at H-Socialisms.] The elevation of Donald Trump onto the national political stage in 2016 provoked a heated...
    Excerpts from "Battle Cry of Freedom"
    • Sep 8, 2021
    • 11 min

    Excerpts from "Battle Cry of Freedom"

    In an effort to escape the dreary drumbeat of daily news, I'm reading James McPherson's mammoth Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era...
    The "paradox" of American freedom and slavery
    • Sep 1, 2021
    • 4 min

    The "paradox" of American freedom and slavery

    [Old student notes on the early United States.] Quoting Edmund Morgan, in his famous 1972 article “Slavery and Freedom: The American...
    Eleven Theses on Socialist Revolution
    • Aug 22, 2021
    • 16 min

    Eleven Theses on Socialist Revolution

    The good folks at DSA (of which I'm a proud member) were kind enough to publish the following article recently in their online...
    Against liberal "pluralism"
    • Jul 10, 2021
    • 15 min

    Against liberal "pluralism"

    In the time of Trumpism, Michael Paul Rogin’s great book The Intellectuals and McCarthy: The Radical Specter (1967) shouldn’t be as...
    The truth about gender
    • Jul 9, 2021
    • 9 min

    The truth about gender

    Some months ago I saw Richard Dawkins recommend on Twitter a new book called The End of Gender: Debunking the Myths about Sex and...
    On the inhumanity of Illinois's government in the 1930s
    • Jun 26, 2021
    • 49 min

    On the inhumanity of Illinois's government in the 1930s

    In case anyone is interested in the history of the Great Depression, particularly in Chicago, here's an excerpt from a chapter of my...
    The secret history of automation
    • Jun 22, 2021
    • 12 min

    The secret history of automation

    Here are some notes on an unjustly neglected book by the great Marxist David F. Noble (social historian of technology) called Progress...
    On humans' language faculty
    • Jun 15, 2021
    • 11 min

    On humans' language faculty

    You may have heard of the “talking gorilla” Koko. I remember as a child reading about this fascinating creature that had been trained to...
    Marxism and the solidarity economy
    • Jun 11, 2021
    • 74 min

    Marxism and the solidarity economy

    Another excessively long blog post. I recently published a long article ("Marxism and the Solidarity Economy: Toward a New Theory of...
    Introduction to my forthcoming book
    • Jun 10, 2021
    • 22 min

    Introduction to my forthcoming book

    If all goes well, I'll be publishing a book sometime in the not-too-distant future. It'll be called something like Popular Radicalism and...
    Reflecting on life at 40
    • Jun 6, 2021
    • 20 min

    Reflecting on life at 40

    …They accuse me -- Me -- the present writer of The present poem -- of -- I know not what -- A tendency to under-rate and scoff At human...
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