Notes from the Editors, May 2023
May 1, 2023
buy this issue Most of the analysis in Monthly Review on the U.S. role in the Ukraine War thus far has focused on the enlargement of NATO (including the U.S./NATO… READ MORE
Article Subjects and Geography: Media
The Telecom Industry in India: Free Market or Monopoly-Finance Capital?
May 1, 2023
Rahul Varman is on the faculty of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, where he teaches and writes about corporations and the neoliberal order. The author is grateful to… READ MORE
John J. Simon: Socialist Editor, Writer, and Broadcaster
April 1, 2023
John Bellamy Foster is editor of Monthly Review and professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Oregon. John Mage is an officer and director of the Monthly Review Foundation… READ MORE
The silly war
April 1, 2023
Government officials, police,�media rant against legalizing�pot. Opiates were handed out�by doctors like Halloween candy.�Now we live with those deaths. � Police say pot’ll cause accidents.�Yet alcohol is legal most places.�Hasn’t… READ MORE
The new normal
March 1, 2023
We have been a nation of consumers.�Stores beckoned in every mall, stuffed�high with clothes produced by barely�paid labor in distant countries; � stuffed with gadgets that lost value�the minute you… READ MORE
Monthly Review in Historical Perspective
October 1, 2022
Paul M. Sweezy was a founding editor of Monthly Review (along with Leo Huberman) and coedited the magazine from 1949 until 2004. This article was a talk given at Harry… READ MORE
H. Bruce Franklin’s Most Important Books
September 1, 2022
H. Bruce Franklin is a former Air Force navigator and intelligence officer, a progressive activist, and the John Cotton Dana professor emeritus of English and American Studies at Rutgers University…. READ MORE
Intelligence Under Racial Capitalism: From Eugenics to Standardized Testing and Online Learning
September 1, 2022
Yarden Katz teaches at the University of Michigan’s Department of American Culture and Digital Studies Institute, and is the author of Artificial Whiteness: Politics and Ideology in Artificial Intelligence (2020)…. READ MORE
Surviving Collapse Through Social Transformation and Regeneration
July 1, 2022
Christina Ergas is assistant professor of sociology at the University of Tennessee. They are the author of Surviving Collapse: Building Community Toward Radical Sustainability (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021). Climate… READ MORE
The Roots of the Science-Practice Gap: A Materialist View
June 1, 2022
Ricardo Dobrovolski is an associate professor at the Institute of Biology of the Federal University of Bahia, Brazil. He would like to thank Rejane Santos-Silva, Vitor Dantas, Caroline Birrer, Isabel… READ MORE