history
Reflections on Revolution—the Russian and the one to come
October 4, 2017We need to clear out all the cobwebs of received opinion and reassess the Russian Revolution if we are ever to create a socialism worthy of the name.
Read more
This week in history: “Howl” has literary merit, not obscene
October 3, 2017Poetry has never since been tried for obscenity in the United States.
Read more
Burns and Novick’s PBS series “The Vietnam War”: Cautionary viewing advised
October 2, 2017As a human story, it’s hard not to have sympathy for the majority of the people in this documentary, regardless of ideology.
Read more
This week in history: Little Rock Central High School integrated
September 25, 2017A group of nine African-American students, enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Their enrollment was initially prevented by Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus. Pres. Dwight D. Eisenhower intervened with federal troops to accompany the...
Read more
“Trail of Tears Walk” commemorates Native Americans’ forced removal
September 21, 2017It is estimated over 60,000 Native people were driven from their homes and the lands they had occupied for thousands of years. It was ethnic cleansing at its worst.
Read more