Notes from the Editors, April 2000
April 1, 2000
This space has, from its earliest years, been devoted to MR affairs, viewing the readers as part of a larger family. Recently, we began to use the space for commentary… READ MORE
Article Subjects and Geography: United States
Notes from the Editors, October 1999
October 1, 1999
Many MR readers will remember when teaching the theory of evolution was prohibited by law in some U.S. states. This wasn’t just at the time of the infamous Scopes “monkey… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, July-August 1999
July 1, 1999
In his article on the U.S. economy in this issue, Doug Henwood quotes from a piece by Thomas Friedman in the New York Times Magazine on March 28, and points… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, May 1999
May 1, 1999
This issue marks our fiftieth anniversary. We’re sure our readers don’t need to be told about the odds against a socialist magazine surviving through this particular half century. We began… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, March 1999
March 1, 1999
If the United States has ever had a “welfare state,” Social Security must surely be the heart of it. In the world’s most predatory capitalism, this is the closest thing… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, February 1999
February 1, 1999
Back in December, while the January issue was going to press, the U.S. and Britain were bombing Iraq, and Congress was impeaching Bill Clinton. Our publication schedule spares us the… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, January 1999
January 1, 1999
Ideology comes, as we all know, in many guises, some more subtle and insidious than others. Children in the United States learn very early to think that capitalism means good… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, December 1998
December 1, 1998
Back in 1972, when one of us was living in Toronto, the Canadian national hockey team played a series of much publicized games against the Soviet Union. Horror of horrors,… READ MORE
Boring From Within the Bourgeois Press, Part I
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
Notes from the Editors, October 1998
October 1, 1998
Even at the height of Hollywood’s political consciousness, which ended in the notorious Cold War repression of the Hollywood Ten and many others in the industry, American movies usually rendered… READ MORE