The Spiral of the Dialectic

        I couldn't fail but to become more interested in the history of slavery after reading Walter Johnson's River of Dark Dreams:...

        Slavoj Zizek has declared that for those of us living at the centers of capitalism: "it is easier to imagine the end of the wor...

    “There was a land of Cavaliers and Cotton Fields called the Old South. Here in this pretty world, Gallantry took its last bow. Here wa...

"And it is significant of the specifically bourgeois character of these human rights that the American constitution,  the first to reco...

  In the late 18th-Century,  Edward Gibbon, one of that century's greatest intellectuals published   The History of the Decline and Fall...

Here we go again. That's right this is  War-A-Go-Go . I couldn't help but cry at the beauty of all the millenials in my Facebook fee...

                   A Forgotten insight: Democratic Ownership of the Means of Repression    My somewhat recent interest in Zionism as a po...