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
October 1, 1998
Ellen Meiksins Wood is co-editor of Monthly Review. This article is a modified version of a paper written for the Conference on the 150th anniversary of the CommunistManifesto(Paris,May1998). � Change… READ MORE
October 1, 1998
Leo Panitch teaches Political Science at York University,he is the co-editor of Socialist Register.� � There are two central developments that define our era. One of these is the historic… READ MORE
July 1, 1998
We write in early June, and these will be the last “Notes from the Editors” until some time in September when things will surely be a lot different from what… READ MORE
June 1, 1998
What’s the matter with Japan? According to today’s conventional wisdom—i.e., what we are told by the media and the syndicated pundits—almost everything. Its economy, the second largest in the world,… READ MORE
May 1, 1998
Harry Magdoff is co-editor of Monthly Review. � Probably the passage in the Communist Manifesto most frequently cited these days is a portrayal of the global spread of capitalism: �… READ MORE
March 1, 1998
A striking feature of the mountain of talk about the Asian crisis is that its root cause is all too often ignored The focus of the media and the pundits… READ MORE
March 1, 1998
Robert W. McChesney teaches journalism at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is the author of Telecommunications, Mass Media, and Democracy: The Battle for the Control of U.S. Broadcasting, 1928-1935 (1993)…. READ MORE
February 1, 1998
David F. Noble, co-founder of the National Coalition for Universities in the Public Interest, teaches history at York University, Toronto. His latest book is The Religion of Technology. He is… READ MORE
February 1, 1998
This article is István Mészáros’s introduction to the 1998 Farsi edition of Beyond Capital, the English version of which appeared in the February 1998 edition of Monthly Review. � —Eds…. READ MORE
