Andrew Ross' position in this debate at Truthout over Israel and Palestine bothered me because he calls for the American labor movement to support the BDS movement. Although I personally support BDS, I don't see why American labor would do that. How would this benefit...
The Left
Scott has said much of what needs to be said about Jennifer Roesch's Jacobin article calling for the "radical left" to break with the Democratic Party. The problems with this.
On November 30, 1999, protests began in Seattle, Washington against the World Trade Organization. The WTO meetings offered unions, environmentalists, and various social and economic justice activists from around the.
Since this brilliant plot was hatched in 2010, surely the revolution must have started by now, no? There is much to embrace about Burning Man. Since its beginning it has been a radical, counter-cultural gathering, where space is carved out for people to be free...
This essay on Obama campaign staffers finding his likely approval of the Keystone XL Pipeline deeply disturbing and conflicting is really interesting, not because of what the story says but.
There's a new organization in Washington: R Street is an independent, non-partisan, non-profit organization. It believes that freedom and free markets work better than the alternatives. R Street can fairly.
One chapter of my book is on Oregon reforestation cooperatives from the 1970s who found their countercultural work ideal disrupted when the Forest Service sprayed them with pesticides. One of the key members of the main cooperative, known as the Hoedads, was Gerry Mackie. After...
Despite the violence fetish of some leftists, the reality is that left-wing terrorism has declined to almost nothing in the United States since 1980. We do face severe domestic terrorist.
When I was going through my hate campaign from the NRA, there was a weird set of internet anarchists also hoping I would lose my job. Calling myself and others.
This amusing piece by Charles Davis on how he went to capitalist summer camp and became a communist reminded me of this old Yglesias approval of a pretty cheap shot at Pete Seeger's communism seventy years ago. Yglesias' major complaint with his summer camp was...
What does it mean to be a leftist? Let me start by saying that this is a pretty wankertastic question. Who cares, right? I think a discussion of the merits.
Scott has provided the fundamental case for Obama's reelection, no matter how disappointed with him you might be. I want to build on that a bit by summarizing a few.