Link to an article by Daniel Geary:
Bonus links: “Chomsky vs. Žižek” and “The Man With Two Brains”
Links
Luke Savage – Twilight of the Technocrats?
Link to an article by Luke Savage:
Ahmed Shawki – The Legacy of Malcolm X
Link to an article by Ahmed Shawki:
Bonus link: “To the Memory of Malcolm X: Fifty Years After His Assassination”
Margaret Garb – How Today’s White Middle Class Was Made Possible By Welfare
Link to an article and book review by Margaret Garb:
“How Today’s White Middle Class Was Made Possible By Welfare”
Demos – Understanding the Racial Wealth Gap
Link to a report by Demos:
“The Asset Value of Whiteness: Understanding the Racial Wealth Gap”
Selected quote: “This paper explores a number of these popular explanations for the racial wealth gap, looking at individual differences in education, family structure, full- or part-time employment, and consumption habits. In each case, we find that individual choices are not sufficient to erase a century of accumulated wealth: structural racism trumps personal responsibility.”
Bonus link: “From the Cold War to Clinton: How Liberals and Conservatives Have Separated Race From Class”
Simon Davis-Cohen – Corporate America is Inching Even Closer to a Constitutional Convention
Link to an article by Simon Davis-Cohen:
“Corporate America is Inching Even Closer to a Constitutional Convention”
Robespierre – Draft Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
Link to machine translation of Robespierre‘s speech of April 24, 1793:
“Draft Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen”
Superior in every way to the final version.
Jorge Luis Borges – Kafka and His Precursors
Link to an essay by Jorge Luis Borges (translated by James E. Irby):
An event retroactively creating its own possibility is what Hegel called “totalizing”
Vincent Emanuele – A Conversation with David Harvey
Link to an interview of David Harvey conducted by Vincent Emanuele:
“Rebel Cities, Urban Resistance and Capitalism: A Conversation with David Harvey”
Harvey is best in these sort of interview settings. It is great that the conversation touches on questions of culture and symbols — though there is not much depth here beyond simply raising those issues. It is worth noting that Pierre Bourdieu and others have offered substantial analytic tools to bolster theory in that area.
David Hudson – Public Officials Can’t Evade Public Records Laws Through Personal Email Accounts
Link to an article by David Hudson:
“Public Officials Can’t Evade Public Records Laws Through Personal Email Accounts”