Notes from the Editors, February 1998
February 1, 1998
Monthly Review was chosen for a 1997 Frederick Douglass Award, an award given annually by the North Star Fund. We were of course pleased to be so honored and thought… READ MORE
Article Subjects and Geography: United States
Notes from the Editors, January 1998
January 1, 1998
MR has always been known for its style as well as its substance. We’ve always aimed for depth of analysis without sacrificing clarity and accessibility. We’ve also tried to keep… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, December 1997
December 1, 1997
The New Yorker dated October 20-27 carries, along with a generous menu of futurology, a sensational article on the past and present. It is entitled “The Return of Karl Marx,”… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, November 1997
November 1, 1997
Ecology, a.k.a. environmental studies, is a relatively new area of scientific interest, mostly a product of the second half of the twentieth century and rapidly growing as the century draws… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, October 1997
October 1, 1997
We are writing at the end of August. The two main events of the summer have been (1) the apparent ending of the long stock-market boom of the last few… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, May 1997
May 1, 1997
In this space in last summer’s double issue of MR, we directed attention to the work of a worldwatch Institute in Washington, D.C., especially its annual State of the World,… READ MORE
History and Black Consciousness: The Political Culture of Black America
July 1, 1995
Manning Marable (1950-2011) was Director of the Institute for Research in African-American Studies and teaches history and political science at Columbia University, New York. Given the George Floyd protests in… READ MORE
Our Kind of Marxist: An Interview with Staughton Lynd
April 1, 1994
Staughton Lynd died on November 23, 2022 at the age of 92. We are republishing this interview from the Monthly Review archives in remembrance. This is an excerpt from an… READ MORE
The Truth About the First Thanksgiving
November 1, 1992
In Memory of James W. Loewen’s (1942–2021) from his comrades at Monthly Review. —Eds. (August 24, 2021) This essay is revised from James W. Loewen’s analysis of American history as… READ MORE
Reflections from Vermont
December 1, 1989
This article was first published in the December 1989 issue of Monthly Review (Volume 41, Issue 07). Now, after two failed Democratic Party presidential nomination bids in 2016 and 2020,… READ MORE