How Karl Polanyi makes sense of our politics
Update 2/20/2017: I have a related essay in the Chronicle Review, assessing Gareth Dale’s Karl Polanyi: A Life on the Left. Karl Polanyi’s arguments keep getting trotted out, thought I, without […]
Monthly Archives: May 2016
Democratic Socialism across the Americas
UPDATE 6/13/2016: The full essay and the debate around it is now up at the Dissent web site, with very smart responses from Sujatha Fernandes, Thea Riofrancos, Bryan McCann, and Javier […]
Whoopee cushions in the Memory Palace: On Comedy and the History Curriculum
My final post for Teaching United States history: In 2012, a study of news habits revealed that those who watched the partisan outlets Fox or MSNBC were actually less informed […]
Review of Rafael Rojas, “Fighting over Fidel”
My review, titled “Words are the Weapons, the Weapons Must Go,” of Rafael Rojas’s “Fighting over Fidel: The New York Intellectuals and the Cuban Revolution,” has appeared in the Los […]
Review of Adam Hochschild’s “Spain in Our Hearts”
My review of Adam Hochschild’s wonderful history of the Spanish Civil War has been published by The New Republic. It’s a monolingual book, but I think it’s better than Orwell’s Homage […]
