Category: Politics

• MLK Day: What I Didn’t Learn About Jim Crow in School

  Today on the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr., I would like to recommend two books that helped me view his work in a larger context.  The first is Slavery By Another Name by Douglas Blackmon, and the second is The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander.  The former taught me a lot about the…

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  January 16, 2012

  Book Reviews, History, Politics

  caste system, jim crow laws, michelle alexander, new slavery

• Who Really Wins on Super Bowl Sunday?

  “America has succeeded in forcing other nations to pay for its wars on a systematic basis, something never before accomplished by any nation in history .” – Michael Hudson I’d like to recommend two books I just finished reading, Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire by Chalmers Johnson and Super Imperialism:  The Origins…

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  January 14, 2012

  Anti-Neoliberalism, Film, History, Politics, Sports

  american empire, chalmers johnson, globe japan, michael hudson, profit margins

• He’s got 48 pages

  I recently finished reading Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, which features the longest run-on sentence I’ve ever read.  It takes up the entire final chapter of the novel.  It is 48 pages long. In Lorrie Moore’s novel A Gate at the Stairs, a student at the University of Wisconsin is smitten by…

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  January 5, 2012

  Anti-Neoliberalism, Book Reviews, History, Politics