What is a President? The CEO of Capitalism
Ongoing left debates regarding Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign are frequently characterized by a shared premise. Whether arguing, for instance, that Sanders is dismissive of race or countering...
View ArticleThe Most Important Election Ever!
The Nation magazine recently declared that the 2016 election “may be the most important election of our lives.” This really shouldn’t be surprising, since nearly every presidential election has been...
View ArticleTrump in the Age of Identity Politics
When I think of the liberal response to the election of Donald Trump I’m reminded of, as much as anything else, accounts of the shock and trauma that Germans experienced at the end of the First World...
View ArticleWestern Civilization 101
Notwithstanding the fears of Samuel Huntington and the more overtly violent demonstrations of self-described Western chauvinists such as the Proud Boys, the term “Western Civilization” is of only...
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Yelp and the Myth of Consumer Power
If you wait tables for a living, chances are that the website Yelp has affected how you think about and even perform your work. Restaurant managers and owners regularly, sometimes daily, pore over...
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Coronavirus and the Rise and Fall of Humanism
Contemporary engraving of Marseille during the Great Plague in 1720 – Public Domain It is a truism that the Black Death helped produce the age of humanism. Through making death ever-present, the plague...
View ArticleHow the US Lost Latin America
The end of the Cold War can be seen as both the best and worst thing to ever befall the United States. On one hand, the USSR’s precipitous collapse represented total victory for the US. In one dramatic...
View ArticleThe Subversive Conservatism of "True Grit"
The Coen Brothers occupy a Hollywood niche that implies subversion while reinforcing conservatism. “Blood Simple,” “Raising Arizona,” and “No Country for Old Men” are morality tales in which a flawed ?...
View ArticleAnother Professor Fired for Views on Middle East
Brooklyn College fired PhD student Kristofer Petersen-Overton yesterday, one day after New York state assemblyman Dov Hikind (D-Brooklyn) sent a letter to BC president Karen Gould accusing...
View ArticleThe Evils of Bad Criticism
In his misleadingly titled essay “The Evils of Unregulated Capitalism,” Joseph Stiglitz critiques ongoing austerity measures for an incriminating reason: austerity will deprive the U.S. and the E.U. of...
View ArticleNine Predictions for Trump’s Second Term
I don’t know why criticisms of electoral politics are so often interpreted to mean that elections don’t have consequences. Of course they do, not least in the ways that elections – even as they...
View ArticleHow the US Lost Latin America
The end of the Cold War can be seen as both the best and worst thing to ever befall the United States. On one hand, the USSR’s precipitous collapse represented total victory for the US. In one dramatic...
View ArticleThe Subversive Conservatism of "True Grit"
The Coen Brothers occupy a Hollywood niche that implies subversion while reinforcing conservatism. “Blood Simple,” “Raising Arizona,” and “No Country for Old Men” are morality tales in which a flawed ?...
View ArticleAnother Professor Fired for Views on Middle East
Brooklyn College fired PhD student Kristofer Petersen-Overton yesterday, one day after New York state assemblyman Dov Hikind (D-Brooklyn) sent a letter to BC president Karen Gould accusing...
View ArticleThe Evils of Bad Criticism
In his misleadingly titled essay “The Evils of Unregulated Capitalism,” Joseph Stiglitz critiques ongoing austerity measures for an incriminating reason: austerity will deprive the U.S. and the E.U. of...
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Trump, the American Dream and the Frontier
David Graeber once postulated that the reason conservatives hate Hollywood is not just because of the film industry’s sanctimonious liberalism but because this liberalism is disseminated by an industry...
View ArticleObama and “The Help”
Noble Stereotypes and the Master Class More The post Obama and “The Help” appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
View ArticleForm in Front of Content
Reflections on Occupy Wall Street More The post Form in Front of Content appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
View ArticleThe Queasy Liberal
Chris Hedges and the Occupy Movement More The post The Queasy Liberal appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
View ArticleSlaves to the Internet
We're All Porn Stars Now More The post Slaves to the Internet appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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