Link to an interview of Peter Waldron, conducted by Paul Mitchell:
“Radical Russia: An Interview with Curator Peter Waldron”
Bonus link: “How the Bolshevik Revolution Saved Avant-garde Art”
Links
Project Censored – The Top 25 Censored Stories of 2016-2017
Link to a report by Project Censored:
Daniel Denvir – Donald Trump’s Reactionary Mind
Link to an interview with Corey Robin, author of The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Donald Trump (2017), conducted by Daniel Denvir:
“Donald Trump’s Reactionary Mind”
Bonus links: Liberalism: A Counter History and War and Revolution: Rethinking the Twentieth Century and The Theory of the Leisure Class and “The Left Hand and the Right Hand of the State” and “Slavoj Žižek on Law” and “Slavoj Žižek on Political Struggle”
Notice that basically all of the key points that Robin makes in the interview have already been made by others, going back over a hundred years. But Robin does simplify a lot of this, for better or worse. His most dubious claim is that the reactionary project began at the time of the French revolution. Historical figures/movements like the opponents of the Gracchi tend to indicate this stretches back to classical antiquity, though perhaps not in an unbroken chain.
Loren Balhorn – The Soviet Hippies
Link to an interview with Terje Toomistu, director of the documentary Soviet Hippies (2017), conducted by Loren Balhorn:
Bonus links: “A Brief History of Soviet Hippies” and “The Forms of Capital” and The Consumer Society (“Are they [hippies] not ultimately, from a sociological point of view, merely a luxury product of rich societies? Are not they, with their orientalist spirituality, their gaudy psychedelia, also marginals who merely exacerbate certain traits of their society?”)
Jackson Katz – Ten Must-Read Books About White Masculinity and the Rise of Trump
Link to an article by Jackson Katz:
“Ten Must-Read Books About White Masculinity and the Rise of Trump”
Bonus links: Illegitimate Means, Anomie, and Deviant Behavior and Delinquency and Opportunity and Merton’s Strain Theory (especially “retreatism”)
Amanda Mull – Instagram Food Is a Sad, Sparkly Lie
Link to an article by Amanda Mull:
“Instagram Food Is a Sad, Sparkly Lie”
Bonus links: The Theory of the Leisure Class, “Twenty-First Century Victorians” and “McMansion, USA”
Thorstein Veblen – Bolshevism Is a Menace—To Whom?
Link to an article by Thorstein Veblen:
“Bolshevism Is a Menace—To Whom?” from The Dial, Vol. 66, p. 174 (Feb. 22, 1919)
Peter LaVenia – The State and Permanent Revolution
Link to an article by Peter LaVenia:
“The State and Permanent Revolution”
Bonus links: The State and Revolution and Results and Prospects and “Lenin’s ‘State and Revolution'”
Nyle Fort – Meet Larry Krasner, Philly’s New Progressive DA Who Has Sued the City’s Police Dept. 75 Times
Link to an interview with Larry Krasner, conducted by Nyle Fort:
“Meet Larry Krasner, Philly’s New Progressive DA Who Has Sued the City’s Police Dept. 75 Times”
Bonus links: “The Problem with Sullivan & Cromwell Partner Nicolas Bourtin and His Five Myths About White Collar Crime” and The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison
Russian Revolution at 100
Link to a series of articles from teleSUR about the October Revolution: