The Truth About the First Thanksgiving
November 1, 1992
Over the last few years, I have asked hundreds of college students, "When was the country we now know as the United States first settled?"
Article Subjects and Geography: Americas
Reflections from Vermont
December 1, 1989
That there are good and honorable people who believe that the Democratic Party can be turned around. I don't. Our major task is to change the entire nature of political discussion in the country. In my view that's just not going to happen within the Democratic Party.
The Political Economy of Hybrid Corn
July 1, 1986
In bourgeois society a violation of property rights is the supreme injustice. Hybrids provided a solution in agriculture. Commercial hybrids decrease the yield of the following generation. This means that farmers have to renew their seed every year. Hence, hybrids create a perpetual market for seed.
In Search of Critical Games
September 1, 1983
Sol Yurick writes radical novels, good ones, and loves to speculate on how culture gets inside people's bones. In the early 1970s, Sol and I spend a lot of time musing over Monopoly, a game many leftists love to hate, others hate to love, and practically everybody plays. According to Shelly Berman, the comedian, "Monopoly evokes a unique emotion, the surge of thrill you get when you know you've wiped out a friend." But what else is going on as we accumulate property and scheme how to beggar our neighbors? Are we simply expressing some atavistic urge for power, or tuning in, consciously or unconsciously, to the attitudes that are most highly prized in our business-oriented society?
Cuba and the U.S.
September 1, 1961
The questions below were submitted, in writing, to Comandante Guevara by during the week of the invasion; the answers were received the end of June.