October 1, 2012
In universities today research, promotion, and tenure are increasingly based on publication in peer-reviewed academic journals. These journals are supposed to constitute the highest level of intellectual inquiry in the… READ MORE
October 1, 2012
Jerry Mander is founder and distinguished fellow of the International Forum on Globalization, and was called “patriarch of the anti-globalization movement” by the New York Times. His early career was… READ MORE
October 1, 2012
Grandfather on the George Washington Bridge 1 From this height seedpodsfallen from naked cliffhanging treesspeckle the palisades.Water wrangles the shore,deliberates, decides, controls.From this height the Hudson’sfalse promisescurdle her edges, milk… READ MORE
September 1, 2012
Unemployed: soon invisible,�after a while, unemployable,�unwanted, with your future�eroding along with confidence,�sense of self, the family�cracking along old fault lines.�And what do you do? Age. � Out of work: out… READ MORE
September 1, 2012
Don Fitz is editor of Synthesis/Regeneration: A Magazine of Green Social Thought, co-coordinator of the Green Party of St. Louis, and producer of Green Time in conjunction with KNLC-TV. The author… READ MORE
June 1, 2012
� If you are trying to transform a brutalized society into one where people can live in dignity and hope, you begin with the empowering of the most powerless. You… READ MORE
June 1, 2012
The following appeared in MR in June 2001. � Recently I collected a number of my prose writings for a forthcoming volume. Rereading them, it struck me that for some… READ MORE
May 1, 2012
Albert Ruben is is the author of The People’s Lawyer: The Center for Constitutional Rights and the Fight for Social Justice from Civil Rights to Guantanamo (Monthly Review Press, 2012)…. READ MORE
April 1, 2012
Robert W. McChesney (rwmcches [at] uiuc.edu) is Gutgsell Endowed Professor of Communications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His books include The Political Economy of Media and The Problem… READ MORE
January 1, 2012
Marc James Léger (leger.mj [at] gmail.com) is an artist, writer, and educator living in Montreal. He is editor of Culture and Contestation in the New Century and author of the… READ MORE
