Wealth Gap Woes
January 1, 2002
Jerry Kloby is the Coordinator of the Institute for Community Studies at Montclair State University in New Jersey, and the author of Inequality, Power and Development: The Task of Political… READ MORE
Article Subjects and Geography: Political Economy
Notes from the Editors, December 2001
December 1, 2001
For a long time radicals have characterized the electoral systems in capitalist societies as “bourgeois democracies.” At times, this term has been used in a strictly pejorative sense, to dismiss… READ MORE
Sixties Lessons and Lore
December 1, 2001
Bernadine Dohrn activist, academic and child advocate, is Director of the Children and Family Justice Center and Clinical Associate Professor of Law at Northwestern University School of Law, Bluhm Legal… READ MORE
A Collective Past Within Us
December 1, 2001
Paul Buhle teaches history at Brown University. He is the author of A Very Dangerous Citizen: Abraham Lincoln Polonsky and the Hollywood Left (University of California Press, 2001); and co-author,… READ MORE
After the AttackÉThe War on Terrorism
November 1, 2001
There is little we can say directly about the September 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C.—except that these were… READ MORE
On Walking the Walk
November 1, 2001
Loretta J. Williams sociologist and activist, directs the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights and Bigotry, which annually honors books, of various genres, which inform and inspire… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, October 2001
October 1, 2001
The fact that the vested interests in the United States are able to rely on a well-oiled propaganda system, in which the media dutifully play their appointed role, is perhaps… READ MORE
Unglaring Exceptions: Dissent in the Films of the 1950s
October 1, 2001
This excerpt, from Running Time: Films of the Cold War by Nora Sayre (Dial Press, 1982) is reprinted with the kind permission of the estate of Nora Sayre. The editors… READ MORE
Questioning Globalization
October 1, 2001
William K. Tabb, teaches economics at Queens College and political science at the Graduate Center at the City University of New York. His most recent book is The Amoral Elephant:… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, September 2001
September 1, 2001
The Economist (June 23, 2001) contained an item that we thought would interest and amuse MR readers. Under the title “More Tomatoes, Please,” it humorously observed: � � It’s tough… READ MORE