Reeking of Imperial Hubris Seizing upon what they consider to be a generational opportunity, with Iran’s theocratic dictatorship shaken by the January people’s uprising, Trump and Netanyahu launched a “prolonged” attack from the air on February 28. While the attacks are aimed, they say, at eliminating Iran’s nuclear and [...]
Today we face dire and escalating crises, not least of which is the looming climate threat. Following the French critic Gilles Dauvé, we can say the prospect of climate catastrophe poses not just a social crisis but a civilizational one. The peril of the climate crisis has been enhanced by [...]
Late on a work night, after a few drinks, I just wanted to text my partner back before a good night’s sleep. It might have been the fun energy of my partner’s texts, or the drinks, but in either case I was motivated to playfully use the AI bot [...]
For decades now, political regimes have been veering toward extreme nationalism and neofascism. A horde of authoritarian regimes, from Russia to Hungary, Poland to India, Brazil to Egypt, the Philippines to Turkey, to cite some of the most egregious examples, have increasingly achieved victory across the world, particularly in [...]
Paul Gomberg’s piece published on April 15, 2025, titled Why Activists Need Critical Communism appeared in my inbox this morning. He rightly alludes to many things the left, at its most noble phase of self-knowledge, ought to find reasonable — and ideally, second nature: the tradition of self-criticism, the [...]
April 7, 2025 is “World Health Day.” According to the World Health Organization, its aims to promote “healthy beginnings” and “hopeful futures” for people worldwide. Juxtapose those aspirations to a quote from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, just one week earlier, which read: “They [...]
The election results around the country were interesting for the left for two reasons: poor working-class people are increasingly becoming dealigned from the Democratic Party, and this shift is happening in ‘blue’ states as well as in ‘red’ states. For example, San Francisco is normally [...]
A few weeks after the epochal fall of the Assad dictatorship, Syria remains in flux. It could not be otherwise after 53 years of the strangulation of civil and political life under one of the world’s most murderous regimes. Nonetheless, some broad outlines of where Syria is going can [...]
As political economists, we might be a bit too bold. We like to believe that political economy is the gold standard for economic analysis and reflecting about economic processes. While not every political economist might be that bold, at least as Marxists we see ourselves [...]
As French parliamentary elections pushed the leftist New Popular Front into first place, a pleasant sort of shock greeted revolutionary and progressive-minded people in France and around the world who had feared the triumph of the neofascist National Rally party. To be sure, recent elections in India and Turkey [...]
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