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Sep 3, 2020
66 min

On the Unemployed Councils and the Chicago Workers' Committee

The last chapter of my dissertation on the unemployed in Chicago during the Great Depression is, I think, more interesting than the other...

Aug 28, 2020
17 min

A critique and defense of Plato’s “just state”

In case anyone out there has an interest in Plato, here's a paper from my student days in which I did the shamelessly anachronistic and a...

Aug 23, 2020
36 min

The radical dimensions of mass consciousness, part 2

Here's the sequel to this post, on my preference for anti-Gramscianism. It's from the last chapter of my Ph.D. thesis. I'm putting it on ...

Aug 21, 2020
56 min

Homeless men in the Great Depression

Here's another over-long blog post. It's a chapter from my dissertation, on homeless men during the Great Depression. I'm not sure it's o...

Jun 16, 2020
2 min

Primary sources on Communists and the unemployed during the Great Depression

While writing my PhD dissertation a few years ago ("Down But Not Out: The Unemployed in Chicago during the Great Depression"), I accumula...

Dec 13, 2018
5 min

100 (more or less) left-wing books

Here's a list of some good leftist books I've come across over the years. Click on the titles for the PDFs. It's a somewhat arbitrary lis...

Sep 10, 2015
1 min

"The human harvest"

From Peter Marin: “Kant called the realm of [human] connection the kingdom of ends. Erich Gutkind’s name for it was the absolute collecti...

Feb 15, 2015
2 min

Christianity updated

One of the many ironies about contemporary Christians is that they tend to be supportive of capitalism. This isn’t surprising: from the t...

Oct 29, 2014
4 min

Socialism and communism

[Excerpt from a book.] The awesome power of business propaganda is revealed in the fact that most Americans scorn the idea of socialism, w...

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