Anti-Zionism and Anti-Semitism
What’s wrong with anti-Zionism is anti-Zionism itself. (With a response from Joshua Leifer.)
Summer 2020
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Reply to Joshua Leifer
This article is part of a debate. Read the original argument by Michael Walzer here, and Joshua Leifer’s response here. I disagree radically with Joshua Leifer’s response and won’t be able to get to every point of disagreement in this …
Listen to the Teens
The high-school students organizing against gun violence in the wake of the Parkland shooting could spark a much larger movement.
How to Build a Majority
In a moment when the left remains small and weak, ideological purity is almost certain to be self-defeating. We need every ally we can find.
Destroying to Save
Recent victories against ISIS in Iraq and Syria have come at tremendous human cost. Such casualties are not inevitable—and those responsible must be taken to task.
Reading the Signs in the Streets with Marshall Berman
As Marshall Berman wrote, reading Capital won’t help us if we don’t also know how to read the signs in the streets.
The Politics of Resistance
Suddenly, everyone on the left is talking about resistance. This is something we should celebrate—while recognizing that it is only half a politics.
Learning to Listen
Internationalism, first and foremost, requires a commitment from leftists to listen to our comrades abroad.
(Grand)father of Nasty Women
Someone on the march told me that this was the best line I had ever written. But I didn’t write it. It was a collective product, written down by my grand-daughter. The “grand” is in parenthesis because my daughters are also nasty women. And my wife has been a bolshevik feminist since she was twelve. I am absolutely certain that they will win.
The Historical Task of the Left in the Present Period
If the survival of a vital center is also the precondition of an active left, one of the historical tasks of the left today is to help hold the center—even as we promote a militancy all our own.
On Democratic Internationalism
Struggles for democratization are always local struggles: the first thing their protagonists want is a state governed by the people who live in it. We must relearn how to support them.
What Kind of a War Is This?
The war against ISIS, as it is currently being waged, cannot be called a just one.
