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Born in 1942, a month after Pearl Harbor, I was unable to experience the Thirties directly, but I experienced it vicariously in the afterglow of an...
Here we are at the end of a month-long celebration of the life and work of the poet Allen Ginsberg (1926-2026) and I haven’t said a word about his...
“Reading Dangerous, Dirty, Violent, and Young, what struck me most was what utter pussies we all were.” – Emmett Rensin in the LA Review of...
Ivy Meeropol, granddaughter of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg— and the director of Heir to an Execution, a landmark documentary about insidious Roy Cohn...
”Native Americans will tenaciously defend the legal, political and cultural boundaries of their sovereignty using every means available to American...
When I heard the shocking news of Ernest Hemingway’s suicide on July 2, 1961, I was sipping a Pernod in a Paris bar/café named Storyville, named...
I did not know Jessica Mitford— who was dubbed “the Queen of the Muckrakers”– for long, but I knew her well. In the 1990s, shortly before my...
Life in senior communities has been dissected in two recent shows: Man on the Inside with Ted Danson and The Thursday Murder Club starring Helen...
The Algerian-born French novelist, Albert Camus, a pied-noir, began his existentialist classic, The Stranger, with the now memorable words, “Mother...
Call it “The Crisis,” but which one do you mean? the crisis here or the crisis there? Though there is no steadfast distinction; here is there and...
The Algerian-born French novelist, Albert Camus, a pied-noir, began his existentialist classic, The Stranger, with the now memorable words, “Mother...
Of all the events that unfolded in the first half of the 1970s, none has haunted me more than the blast in an apartment building in Manhattan that...
Gioia Woods— a professor at Northern Arizona University and the author of a new enlightening book about City Lights (City Lights: Lawrence...
Every movement needs researchers and writers who present technical matters in ways that activists and organizers can understand and apply. Michael...
Years ago, when I used the words “colonialism” and “imperialism” in academia in the U.S., I was viewed as a communist. Now, in the wake of the...
It never was easy to be Adam Raskin, an uncommon radical, and the youngest of four brothers born to Mildred and Sam who left the Communist Party in...
For more than 100 years, his short story, “To Build a Fire,” was required reading for nearly every school kid in the US, most likely to teach them...
Unlike Frederick Engels, I have never owned a factory, but like Engels I have been and still am a Marxist. For decades, I was also a capitalist in the...
A student of historiography and the study of history, as well as history itself, Eric Foner would like yet another American Revolution, one which...
Abbie and Anita Hoffman with their son, America in 1972. Leah Kushner, America Hoffman’s personal family photos. Abbie and Anita Hoffman with their...
recall a large map in our rural school in Oklahoma that featured a flood of red, indicating communism, pouring over the North Pole, reaching the...
I’d read and heard loads about One Battle After Another and invited a friend who came through the long Sixties to see it with me. She has studied...
“Killing African nationalists is like killing animals. My men and I killed between five and ten thousand Congolese rebels.” – Mike Hoare,...
“When in the Course of human events…” You remember those resounding words which are as memorable as “We the People…” The brothers who...
The War in Vietnam pushed me out of academia, turned me into an anti-imperialist and cast a long shadow on my life. The March on the Pentagon, the...
“The idea that we’re the greatest people in the world because we have the most money in the world is ridiculous. Wait until this wave of...
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