I knew my pictures had a message, but what it was precisely I couldn’t have said. -Don McCullin, Unreasonable Behaviour I knew that of all the gory and heart-wrenching scenes I had already photographed that morning, this dead baby was …
A few months before the ugliest American election in recent history, more than fifty people gathered in a park for a potluck lunch and discussion about what real democracy would look like at the local, national, and international levels. Some …
Cities, or rather networks of cities, are becoming a key site for engaging global corporate power. Global cities are particularly important because they are where the core elements of the global economy are located, in strategic concentrations of resources, infrastructures, …
When state and municipal governments accord the rebel flag honor or recognition, they sanction all that the flag stood for: treason, slavery, and a race state.
The labor movement has staked out a progressive, internationalist position on the reform of the global economy. We believe that the rules and institutions of the global economy need to be dramatically transformed in order to change the dynamics of …
Seeing Mary Plain: A Life of Mary McCarthy by Frances Kiernan Norton, 2000, 845 pp., $35 Partisans: Marriage, Politics, and Betrayal Among the New York Intellectuals by David Laskin Simon & Schuster, 2000, 319 pp., $26 Passionate Minds: Women Rewriting …
If I am to convince you that it is really in your interests for me to be self-interested, then I can only be effectively self-interested by becoming less so. —Terry Eagleton, Ideology: An Introduction The field of biotechnology was launched …
The second half of the twentieth century was an age of democracy. The women’s movement, anti-colonial struggles, and challenges to what W. E. B. Du Bois called the “color line” won political inclusion for many people throughout the world. And …
Our relentless evolution toward a global economy will clearly require new institutions both to regulate unstable markets and to protect ordinary citizens from the brutalities of worldwide, dog-eat-dog capitalism. Eventually, like national economies, the global marketplace needs the equivalent of …
Jewish Workers in the Modern Diaspora Nancy L. Green, ed. University of California Press, 1998, 256 pp., $14.95 Ready-to-Wear and Ready-to-Work: A Century of Industry and Immigrants in Paris and New York by Nancy L. Green Duke University Press, 1997 …
The markets were pleased when Vicente Fox won Mexico’s presidential election in July: not because he had done what many still thought impossible—defeat the authoritarian machinery of the longest ruling party in the world—but because there had been no unrest, …
Later Auden by Edward Mendelson Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999, 570 pp., $30 During the 1930s, W. H. Auden populated his poems and plays with heroes struggling to put their shoulders to the wheel of History, and his admirers anointed …
We live in bubble times. The stock market orbits at record highs, apparently bound only by the untested dynamics of the “new economy.” Novel industries sprout like mushrooms, purveying goods and services that most people could hardly imagine a few …
Driving down the gutted gravel roads of Putumayo, you can’t see the war. You could be in any rural tropical region of Latin America— the same wandering cattle that drift onto the road, the same teenage soccer teams in shiny …
Striking Steel: Solidarity Remembered by Jack Metzgar Temple University Press, 2000, 264 pp., $22.95 paper On November 7, 1959, bowing to an injunction upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court, the United Steelworkers (USW) ended—116 days after it started—one of the …
