The new normal
March 1, 2023
We have been a nation of consumers.�Stores beckoned in every mall, stuffed�high with clothes produced by barely�paid labor in distant countries; � stuffed with gadgets that lost value�the minute you… READ MORE
Article Subjects and Geography: Media
Monthly Review in Historical Perspective
October 1, 2022
Paul M. Sweezy was a founding editor of Monthly Review (along with Leo Huberman) and coedited the magazine from 1949 until 2004. This article was a talk given at Harry… READ MORE
H. Bruce Franklin’s Most Important Books
September 1, 2022
H. Bruce Franklin is a former Air Force navigator and intelligence officer, a progressive activist, and the John Cotton Dana professor emeritus of English and American Studies at Rutgers University…. READ MORE
Intelligence Under Racial Capitalism: From Eugenics to Standardized Testing and Online Learning
September 1, 2022
Yarden Katz teaches at the University of Michigan’s Department of American Culture and Digital Studies Institute, and is the author of Artificial Whiteness: Politics and Ideology in Artificial Intelligence (2020)…. READ MORE
Surviving Collapse Through Social Transformation and Regeneration
July 1, 2022
Christina Ergas is assistant professor of sociology at the University of Tennessee. They are the author of Surviving Collapse: Building Community Toward Radical Sustainability (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021). Climate… READ MORE
The Roots of the Science-Practice Gap: A Materialist View
June 1, 2022
Ricardo Dobrovolski is an associate professor at the Institute of Biology of the Federal University of Bahia, Brazil. He would like to thank Rejane Santos-Silva, Vitor Dantas, Caroline Birrer, Isabel… READ MORE
Standing Against Racism and Empire: Remembering Elizabeth ‘Betita’ Sutherland Martinez
April 1, 2022
Erik Wallenberg is a PhD candidate in history at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. He studies the use of activist theater in addressing racism and environmental crises… READ MORE
Obfuscation
April 1, 2022
A skillful con man leaves�no evidence. Instead each�paper trail is shredded, burned,�flushed down any convenient � toilet. Frump doesn’t need�to clean them, fix the plumbing.�Little people do that invisibly.�His past… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, March 2022
March 1, 2022
Public education—both in the United States and the world as a whole—is now experiencing a combined assault that in sheer scale, level of organization, and long-term implications is unlike anything… READ MORE
Confession
March 1, 2022
“When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.” � —P. J. O’Rourke � � “Councilmember XYZ, you said�you’d support my… READ MORE