Link to a review by Lindsay Zoladz of the biography Buffy Sainte-Marie: It’s My Way (2012) by Blair Stonechild:
Links
Gustavus Myers – History of the Great American Fortunes & Supreme Court
Links to books by Gustavus Myers:
History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. I
History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. II
History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. III
History of the Supreme Court of the United States
Meyers wrote some confounding things, but he also performed a valuable service by looking critically at things like methods of wealth accumulation, which have tended toward fraud and insider dealing (for instance, the History of the Great American Fortunes “gives the details of [the Yazoo land scandal] and other frauds that have shaped American history. The moral is that great gifts to insiders have effects that will last centuries.”)
Tom Service – A Guide to Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Music
Link to an article by Tom Service:
Yarden Katz – Cheerleading With an Agenda
Link to an article by Yarden Katz:
“Cheerleading With an Agenda: How the Press Covers Science”
Bonus links: Stanisław Lem, Solaris and “Economics as Ideology: Challenging Expert Political Power” and Thorstein Veblen, The Higher Learning in America: A Memorandum on the Conduct of Universities by Business Men and Universities and the Capitalist State
Reviews of Anwar Shaikh’s “Capitalism”
Links to reviews of reviews of Anwar Shaikh‘s Capitalism: Competition, Conflict, Crises (2016):
- Bernard Guerrien: “A New ‘General Theory’? A review of Capitalism by Anwar Shaikh”
- Heikki Patomäki: “Anwar Shaikh’s Capitalism: A new foundation for economic theory?”
- Michael Roberts: “Real capitalism: turbulent and antagonistic, but not imperfect”
- Brian Romanchuk: “Should We Care About The History Of Money?” and “Capitalism by Anwar Shaikh” (the first link here perhaps suggests that Shaikh argues against MMT because it is closest to his own theories?)
- Bill Jefferies: “Review”
- Sam Williams: “Three Books on Marxist Political Economy” & “Part 2”
- Gavin Mendel-Gleason: “Review of Capitalism: Competition, Conflict, Crises by Anwar Shaikh”
Bonus links: Video lectures by Shaikh and “Innocuous Proclaimations” (this short interview probably renders reading Shaikh’s book unnecessary)
Links to Articles on Liberal Reaction to Trump’s Election
A collection of links to articles critiquing the liberal reaction to the election of Donald Trump as President of the United States, and the related hacking allegations:
- Rune Møller Stahl & Bue Rübner Hansen: “The Fallacy of Post-Truth”
- Andrew Cockburn: “Questions for the Electors on Russian Hacking”
- Stephen Cohen: “What’s Next for U.S.-Russia Relations? Stephen Cohen & Ken Roth on Trump, Hacking & Tillerson”
- Jeffrey Sommers: “Curious Alliances: Truth as Casualty in the US Presidential Election” (“In the end, expect the question of Russia’s possible involvement in the US presidential election to be almost entirely agenda driven. Most will have drawn their conclusions before any evidence is produced.”)
- Mike Whitney: “The Corporate Media’s Assault on Free Speech: an Interview with Jeffrey St. Clair” and “Ah, So Putin Didn’t Hack Those Emails After All”
- Ishaan Tharoor: “The Long History of the U.S. Interfering with Elections Elsewhere”; see also Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: History of the CIA”, David Talbot, The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA and the Rise of America’s Secret Government
- Nick Pemberton: “Ironic Escapism”
Jean-Paul Sartre – Elections: A Trap for Fools
Link to a translation of Jean-Paul Sartre‘s 1973 essay:
Socialism for the Rich, Capitalism for the Poor: An Interview With Noam Chomsky
Link to an interview with Noam Chomsky by C.J. Polychroniou:
“Socialism for the Rich, Capitalism for the Poor: An Interview With Noam Chomsky”
Connor Kilpatrick – Everybody Hates Cornel West
Link to an article by Connor Kilpatrick:
Bonus link: “Cornel West on Donald Trump: This is What Neo-Fascism Looks Like”
David Wineberg – The Man With Two Brains
Link to David Wineberg’s review of Chris Knight‘s book Decoding Chomsky: Science and Revolutionary Politics (2016):
Bonus links: “Decoding Chomsky. Science and Revolutionary Politics. Chris Knight. A Review.” (this review usefully relies on Bourdieu), and “Understanding the Labyrinth: Noam Chomsky’s Science and Politics” (“Chomsky’s stance undercuts the responsibility of scientists to speak out as public intellectuals against dishonest invocation of pretended science [o]n behalf of commercial and political interests.”), and Systemic Functional Linguistics, and Denial AKA disavowal (“In Verleugnung, the defense consists in denying something that affects the individual and is a way of affirming what he or she is apparently denying.”) and “Chomsky, Wolfe and Me” and “Noam Chomsky Responds to Chris Knight’s Book, Decoding Chomsky: Science and Revolutionary Politics” and “When Chomsky Worked on Weapons Systems for the Pentagon” (“In Chomsky’s writings, individualism and genetic determinism are both taken to astonishing extremes.”)
To the extent that Knight (or others) are insisting that Chomsky (or others) assume the position of a Hegelian “beautiful soul” I disagree. Other other hand, from sort of a Bourdieu (or Bachelard) sort of sociological perspective, it is crucial to understand the institutional field in which a “major” academic like Chomsky operates. I think Knight is more concerned with how Chomsky is or isn’t a “useful idiot” for military interests like Robert Oppenheimer with the Manhattan Project.