Cultural Detritus, Reviews, and Commentary
Link to a book review by Paul Street of David Garrow‘s Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama (2017):
“Obama: a Hollow Man Filled With Ruling Class Ideas”
The bits about not citing Street’s own books sound a bit like “sour grapes”. Anyway, by way of contrast, try liberal historian Christopher Read‘s biography Lenin!
Link to an article by Cliff Weathers:
“Your HR Department Hates You: How Corporate Overseers Exploit Workers”
Link to an article by Stephen Resnick & Richard Wolff:
Link to an interview of Walden Bello:
Link to an article by M.G. Piety:
“Academic Bullying: the Vacuum of Moral Leadership in the Academy”
Most of this is general enough to apply outside academia. Interesting that she cited Plato in one place about just behavior, but, rather than another philosopher like Rousseau, cites cognitivist scientists regarding trusting human nature.
Link to an interview of Barrett Brown:
Bonus link: “First They Came for Assange”
Link to an article by Chip Gibbons:
Link to an article by Lars T. Lih:
Link to an article by Jonathan Feldman:
“Police Shootings, Neoliberal Scarcity Regimes and the Left: Behind the Balch Springs, Texas Murder”
Bonus link: “How Racial Disparity Does Not Help Make Sense of Patterns of Police Violence” (“It should be clear by now that the focus on racial disparity accepts the premise of neoliberal social justice that the problem of inequality is not its magnitude or intensity in general but whether or not it is distributed in a racially equitable way.”)