February 1, 2024
buy this issue According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word exterminate comes from the Latin for “to drive beyond boundaries.” From the sixteenth century onward, it meant “to drive… READ MORE
February 1, 2024
This article was originally written for A New Global Geometry?: The Socialist Register 2024 (Merlin Press, forthcoming). It has been lightly edited for Monthly Review. When I come to study… READ MORE
January 1, 2024
buy this issue The genocide being inflicted by the Israeli state on the Palestinian people has now (as we write this in late November 2023) reached a particularly lethal stage,… READ MORE
January 1, 2024
Michael Meeropol is professor emeritus of economics at Western New England University in Massachusetts. He is the author of Surrender: How the Clinton Administration Completed the Reagan Revolution (2nd ed.,… READ MORE
January 1, 2024
For my fifth-grade teacher, who handed me a book � But what could I have known–dumb�and white and 10-years-old in�that springtime of Bull Connor�and Bombingham? � That year, Mr. Shimazu… READ MORE
December 1, 2023
Gabriel Rockhill is executive director of the Critical Theory Workshop/Atelier de Théorie Critique and professor of philosophy at Villanova University in Pennsylvania. He is currently completing his fifth single-author book,… READ MORE
December 1, 2023
Damian Winczewski is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Philosophy and Sociology, University of Maria Curie-Skłodowska, Lublin, Poland. It is widely assumed that the fundamental reason for the longstanding… READ MORE
December 1, 2023
Jacques LaPere is a retired professor, literary critic, and translator. He currently resides in northern California. � Manuel Tiago (Álvaro Cunhal), Until Tomorrow, Comrades, trans. Eric A. Gordon (New York:… READ MORE
December 1, 2023
let’s build a place! � let’s build a place,�like all the other places. � with tall buildings,�like all the other places with tall buildings, � and crowded streets,�like all the… READ MORE
November 1, 2023
Michael D. Yates is editorial director of Monthly Review Press. For many years, he taught working people in labor education programs throughout the United States, seeking to teach, speak, and… READ MORE
