Taylor Dorrell
LATEST ARTICLES BY Taylor Dorrell
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Meridel Le Sueur and ‘The Fetish of Being Outside’: A manifesto for writers
June 5, 2024Rescuing a lost but important 1935 article by the proletarian literary figure.
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Bad investment: Ohio county treasurer sinks public money into Israeli government bonds
April 23, 2024Even from a strictly profit-loss perspective, Israeli government bonds are a losing investment.
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An American Communist classical playlist: The Composers’ Collective on Spotify
March 15, 2024In the 1930s, left-wing composers rallied together to make music for the working class. Their legacy and music has been largely forgotten.
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Heaven divided: Fear and loathing in West Germany
February 27, 2024Wim Wenders' supposedly apolitical film Wings of Desire depicts West Germany as the reverse image of a capitalist utopia.
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Revolutionary patience: Election year with Lenin
January 24, 2024In an election year like 2024, the 20th century Bolshevik revolutionary holds more insights for us today than one might expect.
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Meridel Le Sueur’s ‘Proletarian Literature and the Middle West’
November 14, 2023Here, published online for the first time, is Le Sueur’s speech to the 1935 American Writers Congress.
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Ta’Kiya Young, 21-year-old pregnant woman, is latest Black Ohioan killed by police
October 2, 2023Accused of shoplifting, she was murdered as she sat in her car outside a Kroger grocery store.
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Republican Vivek Ramaswamy brings the anti-China Cold War crusade to Ohio
September 29, 2023Ramaswamy’s red-baiting, hyper-capitalist ideology is becoming more common among Ohio’s rising political right wing.
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