The Explosion of Debt and Speculation
November 1, 2006
Fred Magdoff is professor of plant and soil science at the University of Vermont in Burlington and a director of the Monthly Review Foundation. He is coauthor with Harry Magdoff… READ MORE
Article Subjects and Geography: Political Economy
The Twilight of Personal Liberty: Introduction to ‘A Permanent State of Emergency’
November 1, 2006
Michael E. Tigar is a lawyer and law professor. He teaches at American University, Duke, and at the Faculté de droit et de science politique in Aix-en-Provence. He is the… READ MORE
A Permanent State of Emergency
November 1, 2006
Jean-Claude Paye is a Belgian sociologist studying the transformations of the juridical forms of the state. He has published many articles on this topic, as well as two books, Vers… READ MORE
No Corporation Left Behind: How a Century of Illegitimate Testing Has Been Used to Justify Internal Colonialism
November 1, 2006
Born in Mexico City, Margot Pepper is a bilingual educator, journalist, and author whose work has been published internationally by the Utne Reader, the San Francisco Bay Guardian, City Lights,… READ MORE
No Child Ahead
November 1, 2006
(Translated from the Spanish by Margot Pepper*) � We’re tangled in a month of state testing�like insects trapped in the president’s spider web.�As we take it, we feel like bad… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, October 2006
October 1, 2006
Fidel Castro’s illness in August has nurtured the hopes of Miami-based Cuban émigrés and the U.S. ruling class that a “transition in Cuba” will soon be possible. It is often… READ MORE
A Son’s Reflections
October 1, 2006
Fred Magdoff is professor of plant and soil science at the University of Vermont in Burlington and a director of the Monthly Review Foundation. He is coauthor with Harry Magdoff… READ MORE
The Optimism of the Heart
October 1, 2006
The following intellectual biography of Harry Magdoff is a slightly revised and expanded version of a piece that was posted on MRzine a few days after Harry’s death on January… READ MORE
‘Let the Dialectic Continue!’
October 1, 2006
William K. Tabb (william.tabb [at] gmail.com) taught economics at Queens College for many years, and economics, political science, and sociology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New… READ MORE
Lessons for Leftists Old and New
October 1, 2006
Bernardine Dohrn, activist, academic, and child advocate, is director of the Children and Family Justice Center, a clinical associate professor of law at Northwestern University School of Law in Chicago,… READ MORE