May 1, 2000
Ellen leopold is the author of A Darker Ribbon: Breast Cancer, Women, and Their Doctors in the Twentieth Century (Boston: Beacon Press, 1999). The book includes the correspondence of Rachel… READ MORE
March 1, 2000
Ali Shehzad Zaidi writes on higher education in New York. His last essay for Monthly Reviewappeared in Vol. 51, No. 4 (September 1999). Eileen Welsome, The Plutonium Files (New York:… READ MORE
December 1, 1999
Recently, we were talking about the environment to a well-known sociologist and got into a fairly heated debate about the ecological effects of capitalism. He insisted that capitalism has nothing… READ MORE
February 1, 1999
PaulBurkett teaches in the Department of Economics at Indiana State University in Terre Haute. � James O’Connor, Natural Causes: Essays in Ecological Marxism (New York: Guilford, 1998), 350 pp., $19.95,… READ MORE
July 1, 1998
Frederick H. Buttel is professor of Rural Sociology and Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is author or editor of several books, including a forthcoming anthology entitled Environment… READ MORE
June 1, 1998
John Gillot and Manjit Kumar, Science and the Retreat from Reason (Monthly Review Press, 1997), 288 pp., $18. � We live in a skeptical age. All of the basic concepts… READ MORE
April 1, 1998
John Bellamy Foster, is a member of the Board of the Monthly Review Foundation, teaches sociology at the University of Oregon and is coeditor of Organization & Environment. He is… READ MORE
March 1, 1998
David Harvey teaches in the Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering at The John Hopkins University. His books include Social Justice and the City; The Limits to Capital; The Condition… READ MORE
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
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
