Yestergay’s Man: Eric Orner’s Smahtguy
Hank Kennedy reviews cartoonist Eric Orner’s biography of US politician Barney Frank. I do not think that any self-respecting radical in history would have considered …
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In Review: Jeff Schuhrke’s ‘Blue Collar Empire’
Henry De Groot reviews Jeff Schuhrke’s new book ‘Blue Collar Empire: The Untold Story of US Labor’s Global Anticommunist Crusade’ and argues that, although Schuhrke …
Escaping America’s Constitutional Bind: A Review of Aziz Rana’s “The Constitutional Bind”
Luke Pickrell reviews Aziz Rana’s recent book, “The Constitutional Bind: How Americans Came to Idolize a Document That Fails Them.” Introduction At a private gathering last …
The Monsters We Become: On “How to Read Like a Parasite”
Conrad Hamilton offers his review of Daniel Tutt’s recent book How to Read Like a Parasite: Why the Left Got High on Nietzsche, an inquiry …
Knowing the Enemy: On McManus’s The Political Right and Equality
Talal Hangari reviews ‘The Political Right and Equality: Turning Back the Tide of Egalitarian Modernity’ by Matthew McManus (New York: Routledge, 2023). Introduction This slim …
Did We See This One Before?: Rachel Maddow’s ‘Prequel’
Hank Kennedy reviews ‘Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism’ a new book on U.S. fascism and anti-fascism by MSNBC television host and political commentator, Rachel …
The Antinomies of Nietzschean Marxism
Daniel Tutt reviews Jonas Čeika’s ‘How to Philosophize with a Hammer and Sickle: Nietzsche and Marx for the 21st Century Left’ (Repeater Books: London, 2021). …
Read Le Blanc. Be careful.
Cliff Connolly reviews Paul LeBlanc’s latest work ‘Lenin: Responding to Catastrophe, Forging Revolution’, available from Pluto Press on September 20th. Cliff will be speaking on …
Oswald Spengler: Philosopher of Decline, Partisan of Counterrevolution
ML Miller reviews Ben Lewis’ Oswald Spengler and the Politics of Decline, finding an understanding of Spengler as a political agent who sought to put …
Challenging the White Blindspot
Noel Ignatiev dedicated his life to challenging white supremacy, taking aim at the very idea of the white race as a positive community or identity. …
Obscured Accomplishments: Comments on James P. Cannon and the Emergence of Trotskyism in the United States, 1928-38
Brendan Campisi reviews historian Bryan D. Palmer’s most recent work on the life of U.S. left-wing stalwart and founding figure of the U.S. Trotskyist movement …
The Dawn of Social Evolution
Nicolas D Villarreal reviews David Graeber and David Wengrow’s The Dawn of Everything and outlines a theory of social evolution that answers the book’s objections …
To Talk of Organization – on Nunes’ Neither Vertical nor Horizontal
Alex James reviews Rodrigo Nunes’ latest book Neither Vertical nor Horizontal, finding a refreshing new vocabulary for talking about organization that raises difficult questions rather …
Worse than Dead: A Critical Response to McKenzie Wark
James W reviews McKenzie Wark’s Capital is Dead. Nearly a year has passed since the publication of McKenzie Wark’s short book Capital is Dead: Is This …