The Present in History, 2021
November 1, 2021
William K. Tabb is professor emeritus of economics at Queens College and of economics, political science, and sociology at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. He has written,… READ MORE
Articles
Disney, Salò, and Pasolini’s Inconsumable Art
November 1, 2021
Owen Schalk is a writer from Winnipeg, Manitoba. � The increasing consolidation of the modern entertainment industry by a small clique of multinational streaming giants is the next step in… READ MORE
Keeping the Challenges Before Us: The Reissuing of ‘Reluctant Reformers’ and Its Contemporary Implications
November 1, 2021
Bill Fletcher Jr. is a longtime trade unionist, writer, commentator, and a past president of TransAfrica Forum. � Robert L. Allen and Chude Pamela Allen, Reluctant Reformers: Racism and Social… READ MORE
The great indifference
November 1, 2021
The West is burning�acre after acre gone to ash.�It’s so hot hundreds die:�does anyone in power care? � The East is waterlogged�and new storms come roaring�months earlier than ever:�does anyone… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, October 2021
October 1, 2021
On August 9, 2021, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis. This was Part I of its Sixth Assessment Report (AR6),… READ MORE
The Long Haitian Revolution
October 1, 2021
� Pierre Labossiere is cofounder of the Haiti Action Committee and is on the board of the Haiti Emergency Relief Fund. Margaret Prescod is part of the Haiti working group… READ MORE
Bhima Koregaon and the “Powers of the Other Shore”
October 1, 2021
Saroj Giri teaches politics at the University of Delhi. In India, today, we are witness to the quiet rise of the figure of Mahar Sidnak, iconized and lionized as a… READ MORE
COVID, Disablement, and the “Return to Normal”
October 1, 2021
Keith Rosenthal is the editor of Capitalism and Disability: Selected Writings by Marta Russell (Haymarket Books, 2019). Ari Parra is a graduate student of economics at John Jay College, City… READ MORE
The South African Pandemic of Racial Capitalism
October 1, 2021
Madalitso Zililo Phiri is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Johannesburg’s Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study, South Africa. He is currently working on a book manuscript, tentatively titled… READ MORE
Vouchers for Murder
October 1, 2021
Isador Nabi is undoubtedly one of the most mysterious and controversial (some would say notorious) names in science today, whose always provocative papers have appeared in Nature, Science and Nature,… READ MORE