By Yuval Noah Harari, The Economist Humanity’s greatest political achievement has been the decline of war. That is now in jeopardy. AT THE HEART of the Ukraine crisis lies a fundamental question about the nature of history and the nature of humanity: is change possible? Can humans change […]
By Elie Mystal The Nation In a nod to the bad old days, an amendment to a Missouri anti-abortion bill would make it a crime to help a pregnant Missourian get an abortion outside the state. The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 mandated the seizure and return of […]
By Razib Khan, City-Journal For many of us Cold War kids, the Soviet Union, the Eastern Bloc, and the battle between capitalism and global Communism were just background conditions of our youth. But in the United States, what we really talked about wasn’t the Soviets or the Communists […]
By Mikhaila Peterson In this episode, I spoke with two members of the government, one in Ukraine and one in Russia. I don’t believe these guys necessarily have the view of an average Russian or Ukrainian. However, they do represent people in their countries. First I spoke with […]
By Harold James, Quillette February 24th, 2022, constituted a shock to the European psyche. The invasion of Ukraine, without any plausible casus belli, the massive use of military force against civilians, the attempted hunting down of a legitimately elected government, all came as a complete surprise. But so […]
For day six of The Realignment’s near-daily Ukraine coverage, Marshall spoke with Hal Brands, author of The Twilight Struggle: What the Cold War Teaches About Great-Power Rivalry Today, John Hopkins University professor, AEI Resident Fellow, and Bloomberg columnist. They discussed America’s successes and failures during the Cold War, […]
By Keaton Mansfield, Center for Political Innovation Why does the liberal antiwar movement often side with NATO by default of their faux “neutrality”? The difference between antiwar and anti-imperialism may hold the answer. With the Russian Federation’s decision to recognize the independence of the Lugansk and Donetsk People’s […]
By Keaton Mansfield, Center for Political Innovation The “New Left,” born out of the hippie era and social justice movements of the 1960’s, has been a disaster for the socialist cause. When the Communist Party USA was founded in 1919, it quickly became a political force to be […]
By Jordan Jardine, Center for a Stateless Society Muammar Gaddafi was, is, and always will be a controversial figure. Though his rise from Bedouin nomad to ruler of Libya is impressive, many of the things he did while in control of the country were unquestionably authoritarian and criminal. […]
Praise of Folly joins me on Ukraine, and larger geopolitical implications of what might come next.
By Darryl Pinckney The Nation Digging down into the roots of white America’s infatuation with Black. Norman Mailer was proud of his essay “The White Negro: Superficial Reflections on the Hipster.” Published in Dissent in 1957, it was reprinted in Advertisements for Myself (1959), Mailer’s anthology of selections […]
Saagar compares the present moment in America with high gas and food prices to a similar time in the 1970s when geopolitical instability and domestic unrest also had dramatic effects on American politics
By Maximus Brown, Sof Mag Sen Graham is truly unhinged. Even after being called to resign for the sake of Americans with publicly stating that Putin should be assassinated, he continues to be defiant. Even after the corrupt U.S. State Department and Biden explained the illegality of his […]
By W. James Antle III, The Week The Russian invasion of Ukraine has turned out to be a much tougher slog than the Kremlin anticipated. The Kyiv offensive appears stalled. The morale of Russia’s conscripts is poor. Instead of swiftly folding, Ukraine is fighting back. None of this […]
By Robert Stark The 2020s started off with a global pandemic and now a major war, two black swan events. Could this be the official end to “The End of History,” a political concept that is most often associated with the book that Francis Fukuyama wrote after the […]
By Anthony Gregory This is a critical historiographical essay animated by the research question of how the decisions of police and sheriffs illuminated and drove the transformation of white supremacy through different forms from emancipation to the end of Jim Crow segregation. It situates this focus amidst current […]
By Ed West Putin’s ‘historian, here’ talk refers to the Soviet Union’s policy of affirmative action. You know that nations are all just artificial creations, mostly Victorian inventions designed for political purposes? That your loyalty and patriotism is entirely false? The now-popular argument of post-war academics, that countries […]
by Benjamin Studebaker Most of the people writing about the Ukraine crisis are too busy trying to prove that they are on the right side to give decent analysis of it. They are worried about appearing too friendly to either Russia or the United States, and their career […]
Todd Lewis will be joined by Existentialist Non-Grata to discuss the nature and implications of the Industrial Revolution.
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley I don’t believe in taxes. I know that’s not exactly the trendiest take on the left these days, but I just can’t justify giving any institution that kind of power. I would love nothing better than to play […]
By David A. Bell New York Review of Books Colin Jones gives an hour-by-hour account of the Ninth of Thermidor, a day that marked a turning point in the French Revolution. Imagine a government divided between two ferociously opposed political forces, both of which claim the right to […]
From the mind of acclaimed director Tony Stone comes TED K- a bracing, cinematic journey into the tortured mind of The Unabomber. Deep in the American Rocky Mountains lived a man who sought refuge from modern society. His dark writings forewarned of a society ruled by technology. As […]
Norman Naimark is a historian at Stanford, specializing in the history of genocide.
The People’s World October marks 50 years since Canada’s “October Crisis” of 1970, during which Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau (father of the current PM) invoked the War Measures Act, suspended civil and democratic rights across Canada and sent thousands of troops to occupy Quebec. The government’s real purpose […]
Impromptu interview of Pierre Elliott Trudeau with Tim Ralfe of the CBC and Peter Reilly of CJON-TV on October 13, 1970.
He actually created a recession to control inflation, and then lifted the economy out of the recession with Keynesian policies. It is amazing that he is so admired by fiscal conservatives, deficit hawks, libertarians, and gold bugs. Ronald (Ronald Wilson, 1911-2004) Reagan, Republican candidate for United States President. […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley “Black power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny.” -Huey P. Newton Growing up as a secretly Queer white kid in a predominantly white conservative community can be a profoundly surreal […]
Historiansplaining We consider the strange ambiguous developments of this year, including the political paralysis in the US, the furors over mask and vaccine mandates, and most importantly, the labor reshuffle or “great resignation,” in light of crises past, including the bubonic plague and World War I and World […]
This is quite interesting. This is what a real communist looks like. If I were a Marxist-Leninist, I would be inclined to take the same positions as this fellow.
Leonard Deadwyler (1941 – May 7, 1966) was an African-American man who was shot and killed by Jerold M. Bova LAPD after speeding and running red lights while driving his wife, who was in labor, to the hospital. His wife later sued Los Angeles for wrongful death, and […]
Street gangs and the violence associated with them have always been predominatly an urban phenomenon. The combination of extreme poverty, overcrowding and alienation that exists in the urban ghettos and slums makes these areas breeding grounds for criminal activity. Not all children of the urban poor resort to […]
David Hoffman: “I remember 1969 when I first saw this recording of a live television discussion/debate between inner-city police leaders and inner-city community leaders presented on PBS. 1969 was a very tense time in the United States with 50% of the country supporting the war in Vietnam and […]
The Henry Ford Archive of Innovation Two Sisters Beauty Salon, 1945-50. THF240367 “Jim Crow” laws—first enacted in the 1880s by angry and resentful Southern whites against freed African Americans—separated blacks from whites in all aspects of daily life. Favoring whites and repressing blacks, these became an institutionalized form […]
Two thousand years ago one of history’s most notorious individuals was born. Professor Mary Beard embarks on an investigative journey to explore the life and times of Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus – better known to us as Caligula.
Tony Robinson explores the major uprising across large parts of England in 1381; its origins, motives, and aftermath.
Krystal and Saagar offer their perspective on the comments made by The View’s Whoopi Goldberg about the holocaust and how the show has responded
By Jesse O’Neill New York Post Whoopi Goldberg was suspended from ABC’s “The View” Tuesday evening after she claimed the Holocaust was “not about race.” “Effective immediately, I am suspending Whoopi Goldberg for her wrong and hurtful comments,” ABC News President Kim Godwin tweeted. “While Whoopi has apologized, […]
By Neil Monahan, Medium Introduction For much of its long history the Democratic Party has been regarded as the party of the people. It was the party of the workingman, the party of the unions, the party of the New Deal. The Republicans were thought to represent the […]
By Jennifer Smith, Chief Reporter and Alastair Talbot For Dailymail.Com Whoopi Goldberg, 66, made the comment on The View on Monday afternoon She said because the Nazis and Jews were ‘two groups of white people’, the Holocaust ‘wasn’t about race’ Her co-hosts were stunned by the comment and […]
An interesting critique of Kropotkin and anarcho-communism from the neocon magazine The New Criterion. Reading the list of names associated with this publication is a “Yikes!” moment. Of all the scams the neocons have pulled off, one of the most successful has been the way they present themselves […]
Because it is fashionable for right-wing propagandists to describe anything and everything as “Marxist” nowadays, for which there were plenty of past prototypes and as a recent book by Mark Levin indicates, it might be helpful to examine the question of to what degree Marxist philosophy and/or economic […]
By Jan Olof Bengtsson History of European Ideas 26 (2000) 127–142 Book reviews Marx, the Young Hegelians, and the origins of radical social theory Warren Breckman, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge; 1999, 335pp.The well-known theme in modernist and postmodernist literature of the dissolution of what was perceived by radicals […]
By Ed West In The End of History, Francis Fukuyama wrote about how the fall of East Germany was brought about by a curiously familiar emotion – anger towards the hypocritical lifestyle of the leadership. ‘The Honecker regime in East Germany was critically weakened by a series of […]
By Bernd Reiter In this short essay, I argue that democracy started in ancient Africa, not in ancient Greece. Along the way, I demonstrate that world history’s hegemonic focus on civilization is misplaced and misleading. Such a focus, after all, gears our collective attention toward empires, kingdoms, and […]
By Julian Brave NoiseCat The Nation riving down international boulevard, East Oakland’s main inner-city thoroughfare, it’s hard to miss the Intertribal Friendship House. With its mural-rimmed courtyard featuring larger-than-life portraits of Natives, both famous and unknown, the community center, which some call the “urban rez,” stands apart from […]
Professor David Graeber (LSE) speaking at the University of Birmingham as part of the Birmingham Research Institute of History and Cultures’ interdisciplinary conference ‘Debt: 5000 years and counting’.
An actual Communist explains where the present-day Western Left originates from.
By Sarah Abed 1. There was no electricity bill in Libya; electricity was free for all its citizens. 2. There was no interest on loans, banks in Libya were state-owned and loans given to all its citizens at zero percent interest by law. 3. Having a home was […]
By Gabriel Kuhn , Erich Mühsam Erich Mühsam (1878-1934), poet, bohemian, revolutionary, is one of Germany’s most renowned and influential anarchists. Born into a middle-class Jewish family, he challenged the conventions of bourgeois society at the turn of the century, engaged in heated debates on the rights of […]
By Werner Sombart , Translated by Mordecai Epstein 2015 Reprint of Original 1913 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Werner Sombart (1863 -1941) was a German economist and sociologist and one of the leading Continental European social scientists during the first […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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