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
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Notes from the Editors, November 1998
November 1, 1998
There’s been a lot of discussion in MR about the implications of “globalization.” We don’t intend to repeat the arguments here, but we recently received a communication that brings into… 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
Notes from the Editors, September 1998
September 1, 1998
The left has more than once heard calls for a “third way”. In decades gone by, people talked about a “third way” between Communism and capitalism, which was social democracy…. READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, July-August 1998
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
Notes from the Editors, June 1998
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
Notes from the Editors, May 1998
May 1, 1998
The fifteenth annual Socialist Scholars Conference (SSC) was held this year on the weekend of March 22–23, several weeks earlier than usual, but at the accustomed venue, the Borough of… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, April 1998
April 1, 1998
Readers may remember that in last year’s summer issue on labor we talked about a roundtable organized by MR for activists in the labor movement and held in our office… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, March 1998
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
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