Notes from the Editors, May 1999
May 1, 1999
This issue marks our fiftieth anniversary. We’re sure our readers don’t need to be told about the odds against a socialist magazine surviving through this particular half century. We began… READ MORE
Article Subjects and Geography: Geography
Geography
Notes from the Editors, April 1999
April 1, 1999
What a fuss people made about the recent Olympics scandal. You would think the existence of bribery and corruption in the sporting world came as a great revelation, and that… READ MORE
Political Reawakening in Zimbabwe
April 1, 1999
Patrick Bond teaches at the University of the Witwatersrand Graduate School of Public and Development Management in Johannesburg and is the author of Uneven Zimbabwe: A Study of Finance, Development… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, March 1999
March 1, 1999
If the United States has ever had a “welfare state,” Social Security must surely be the heart of it. In the world’s most predatory capitalism, this is the closest thing… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, February 1999
February 1, 1999
Back in December, while the January issue was going to press, the U.S. and Britain were bombing Iraq, and Congress was impeaching Bill Clinton. Our publication schedule spares us the… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, January 1999
January 1, 1999
Ideology comes, as we all know, in many guises, some more subtle and insidious than others. Children in the United States learn very early to think that capitalism means good… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, December 1998
December 1, 1998
Back in 1972, when one of us was living in Toronto, the Canadian national hockey team played a series of much publicized games against the Soviet Union. Horror of horrors,… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, November 1998
November 1, 1998
There’s been a lot of discussion in MR about the implications of “globalization.” We don’t intend to repeat the arguments here, but we recently received a communication that brings into… READ MORE
Boring From Within the Bourgeois Press, Part I
November 1, 1998
A. Kent MacDougall (1931–2021) was award-winning mainstream reporter, journalism professor, and long-time Monthly Review author. For further information see the Notes from the Editors, Monthly Review 73, no. 9 (forthcoming in… READ MORE