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In the article below, the author contends that Trump’s narrative has become hegemonic, leaving little space for counter narratives. But this strikes me as overdrawn and one sided. Popular understanding and politics are more complicated and contradictory than what the author suggests.…
This was my first effort after I became National Chair to rethink and interrogate the Communist Party’s view of socialism in the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union. Up to then nothing much had been done along these…
An old high school friend defended another high school friend’s anti-immigrant rants by saying that she sounds like a “smart girl.” Not one to let a good difference of opinion pass without comment, I replied, “You understand smart different from…
In last night’s spin class, the playlist included Bill Haley’s, “Shake, Rattle, and Roll. And much like when I heard it for the first time as a young teenager, it sent a wave of energy through me. Now I need…
I notice an uptick in the unrestrained criticism from the left of President Obama. He’s smugly and simply dismissed as an unreconstructed “neoliberal” and nothing more. This is wrong analytically, tactically stupid, and reveals some racial insensitivity. Nowhere in such…