Wright's Writing

Probably unwisely, I've posted my lifelong intellectual journal online, specifically on Google Books . It's a very long document that no...

[This article was published in The Philosophical Salon.] In Wilhelm von Humboldt’s book The Limits of State Action (1792), one of the...

[Published at Common Dreams.] “The Republican Party is the most dangerous organization in human history,” says Noam Chomsky. It seems...

[Published at Dissident Voice and other places.] Twitter conversations with public intellectuals are rarely worthy of note, but a recent...

[This article was published at Sublation and other venues.] Political discourse in the United States consists largely of lies and...

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

[Published in Dissident Voice.] One might as well state the matter clearly: given the realities of global warming, rampant environmental...

[A book review published at Common Dreams.] As I was reading Norman Finkelstein’s new book, I’ll Burn That Bridge When I Get to It!:...

Here's an insanely long post. It's actually a "literary experiment" I wrote almost twenty years ago (as the following preface says, which...

[This article was published at Sublation.] A striking paradox of the history of the left is that it is full of self-defeat. From the...

Last summer I published the book version of my Ph.D. dissertation, bearing the ungainly title Popular Radicalism and the Unemployed in...

[This article was published at Sublation magazine.] The reparations debate is getting old. But it shows little sign of abating. Academic...

[This article was published at Compact magazine.] In the United States there exists today, and has existed since at least the 1950s, a...

[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...

[This is a review published at H-Socialisms.] Vivek Chibber. The Class Matrix: Social Theory after the Cultural Turn. Harvard University...

One of the first laws of human existence, or at least of existence in class societies (determined by anti-human institutions that mold...

The good folks at DSA (of which I'm a proud member) were kind enough to publish the following article recently in their online...

In case anyone is interested in the history of the Great Depression, particularly in Chicago, here's an excerpt from a chapter of my...

Here are some notes on an unjustly neglected book by the great Marxist David F. Noble (social historian of technology) called Progress...

Another excessively long blog post. I recently published a long article ("Marxism and the Solidarity Economy: Toward a New Theory of...