December 1, 2025
In this transcript of a talk from 2015, Robert W. McChesney discusses the "great definitional communication revolutions" that have shaped humanity's trajectory. Even a decade ago, McChesney was able to see the fraught relationship between new technology and democracy, the re-emergence of fascism, and the political dangers of the Digital Age.
December 1, 2025
Writing upon the fiftieth anniversary of his graduation from Pomfret School in Connecticut, Robert W. Chesney shares in his own words the story of his intellectual development, from his teen years through his studies at The Evergreen State College, and how they shaped his career as a journalist and activist—including his role as coeditor of MR.
December 1, 2025
In this reprint of a Seattle Weekly article from 2004, Knute Berger details a game of Monopoly played among friends, including Robert W. McChesney and John Bellamy Foster, while students at The Evergreen College. With sly insight, Berger shows how Foster and McChesney's antics as board game robber barons revealed McChesney's perceptive analysis of the media landscape under capitalism and his passionate advocacy for democratic, monopoly-free media.
December 1, 2025
To conclude our special issue on Robert W. McChesney's legacy, MR presents a series of tributes capturing his impact on the world around him. The diversity represented by these illustrious contributors, from his colleagues at the media watch group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) to Senator Bernie Sanders, is a testament to McChesney's enduring influence.
November 1, 2025
It is a commonplace that the world in the first quarter of the twenty-first century is facing multiple, multifaceted crises, threatening all world civilization and the future of humanity itself. So omnipresent is the contemporary world disorder that received ideology has settled on a single word to describe it: “polycrisis.” Anyone who wants to know what polycrisis is and where it comes from will inevitably run up against a blank wall. For the establishment, the vacuousness of the concept of polycrisis is its primary value.
November 1, 2025
In Aeschylus’s play Prometheus Bound, the Prometheus is a revolutionary figure. Defying divine interdiction to bring fire to humanity, the Titan has since been adopted by thinkers from the Enlightenment to today to represent revolutionary forces in human existence. So, John Bellamy Foster asks in November’s Review of the Month, what is “Prometheanism,” and how has the term been used (and misused) in discussions of Marx, the ecological crisis, and sustainable human development?
November 1, 2025
In this far-reaching analysis, Vijay Prashad enumerates the conditions of the current conjuncture that, despite seemingly intractable capitalist and imperialist hegemony, point to a reinvigorated revolutionary consciousness among the global population. In a world of capitalist degradation, Prashad declares: "A politics to produce dignity is a socialist politics…. Capitalism inherently generates forms of inequality and indignity. Therefore, all undertakings that seek dignity for all are socialist projects."
November 1, 2025
In a follow-up to their May 2024 article about the IMF'S vise-grip on Argentina's economy, David Barkin and Juan E. Santarcàngelo examine how recent events continue to shape the efforts of the global and domestic ruling classes to dominate Argentine society through debt, currency scams, and political malfeasance. Underlying all of this, they note, is the continued encroachment of the IMF on Argentina's sovereignty, aided and abetted by the far-right president Javier Milei.
November 1, 2025
Helena Sheehan reflects on the evolution of her intellectual political relationship to China, a journey that began with limited knowledge of a seemingly far-away land and ends with a nuanced understanding grounded in her on-the-ground experiences as a visiting professor at Peking University. Through political and cultural analysis, Sheehan gives readers a peek into what how the Chinese Revolution continues to unfold.
November 1, 2025
In this reprise from April 2000, John J. Simon explored the consequences of the landmark Supreme Court case Sweezy v. New Hampshire, which saw MR founding editor facing off against the state of New Hampshire after refusing to respond to questions concerning his political activities. While the case is often seen as marking the waning of McCarthyism, MR editors had a different view: the decline was due to the successful ascension of capitalist interests in U.S. society. "The extreme right had served its purpose, Simon noted, "and could now be reined in."