June 14, Brooklyn: Big Farms Make Big Flu Book Launch!
February 20, 2024
Meet Rob Wallace and hear him talk about his new book, Big Farms Make Big Flu: Dispatches on Infectious Disease, Agribusiness, and the Nature of Science
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Big Farms Make Big Flu an “important polemic,” says ResoluteReader
February 20, 2024
The media is a fickle beast, so coverage of potential epidemics of diseases veers between the apocalyptic to nonexistence. As an outbreak occurs we hear about the potential terrifying consequences of the disease, combined with graphic details of the symptoms and frequently pictures of large numbers of dead animals. Rob Wallace‘s new book is an important polemic that argues that we, as a society, should be a lot more concerned about the potential for disease to decimate the human population
Ian Angus introduces us humans to an age we made all by ourselves: the Anthropocene
February 20, 2024
Ian Angus, author of Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth System, answers questions from London’s Socialist Review on why and how human activity has transformed... READ MORE
May 9, Brooklyn! Hear Bill Fletcher & Chip Berlet on The Rise of the Right in the United States
February 20, 2024
Bill Fletcher (Longtime labor and social justice activist, host of The Global African TV show author of Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor
and Chip Berlet (Award-winning investigative journalist, author of Right-Wing Populism in America: Too Close for Comfort will discuss the rise of the right
Coming May 14 & 15 to a flat-screen near you: MRP author Gerald Horne on C-SPAN!
February 20, 2024
Saturday, 14 May, 8:45 PM EDT & Sunday, 15 May, 1:30PM EDT C-SPAN will present a talk by Gerald Horne, author of Confronting Black Jacobins: The United States, the Haitian... READ MORE
“Polyarchy in the Dominican Republic”: Jeb Sprague-Silgado on electing the DR’s next President
February 20, 2024
Jeb Sprague-Silgado, is the author of Paramilitarism and the Assault on Democracy in Haiti. His article, “Polyarchy in the Dominican Republic: The Elite versus the Elite,” appeared in NACLA, May... READ MORE
Henry Giroux, via Truthout: “Why Teachers Matter in Dark Times”
February 20, 2024
Americans live in a historical moment that annihilates thought. Ignorance now provides a sense of community; the brain has migrated to the dark pit of the spectacle; the only discourse that matters is about business; poverty is now viewed as a technical problem; thought chases after an emotion that can obliterate it. The presumptive Republican Party presidential nominee, Donald Trump, declares he likes "the uneducated"—implying that it is better that they stay ignorant than be critically engaged agents—and boasts that he doesn't read books. Fox News offers no apologies for suggesting that thinking is an act of stupidity....
C-SPAN: Gerald Horne on Confronting Black Jacobins & Paul Robeson
February 20, 2024
April 15, Baltimore, at Red Emma’s Bookstore Coffeehouse: Gerald Horne discusses his latest two books: Paul Robeson: The Artist as Revolutionary and Confronting Black Jacobins: The U.S., the Haitian Revolution, and the Origins of the Dominican Republic.
SPOILER: Christopher Wright “really likes” Facing the Anthropocene
February 20, 2024
May 13, Sydney, Australia: Christopher Wright, Professor of Organisational Studies at the University of Sydney Business School, spoke at the international launch of Ian Angus‘s book, Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil... READ MORE
Left Forum this Weekend: 400 Panels, 1200 Speakers … and YOU!
February 20, 2024
Come to the 2016 Left Forum!
Friday, May 20 – Sunday, May 22
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
524 W 59th St., NYC 10019
Drop by the Monthly Review book tables!
Pick up discounts on new books, classics, the Monthly Review magazine, the Socialist Register, and Merlin Press books!