Wright's Writing

[This article was published at Compact .] The world is at its most dangerous moment since the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. Back then,...

My journal helps keep me sane. From January to March I've occasionally jotted down thoughts on the horrors occurring every day in Gaza,...

[This article was published at Common Dreams.] Everyone who abhors war, detests imperialism, and favors cooperation between nations on...

[Published in Compact magazine.] Twenty years ago, Noam Chomsky published a bestselling book called Hegemony or Survival. Since then, the...

[Published at Common Dreams.] To be a leftist in the United States is a dispiriting experience, but in the last year one of the more...

As I frequently and tiresomely reiterate, academic writing tends toward sophistry, superficiality, and obscurantism. Personally, my...

[Also here]. I’ve been reading Gabriel and Joyce Kolko’s classic The Limits of Power: The World and United States Foreign Policy, 1945–54...

[Years ago I took notes on the book mentioned below, which I thought I'd post here for the heck of it. Maybe someone will find them...

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...

With regard to the period between the 1530s and 1640s, the great Marxian historian Steve Stern divides the economic system that prevailed...

I recently read a book by Chris Bambery called The Second World War: A Marxist History (2014) and decided it was good enough to take...

Notes on a classic. (See also these notes.)— In Inevitable Revolutions: The United States in Central America (1993), Walter LaFeber...

What is the significance of the fact that in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries certain (semi-fascist) sections of the...

The nation-state and capitalism were born as twins from the fertile, ancient womb of greed and power-hunger. They grew up together, were...