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| 04.17.19 |
David Brion Davis, 1927-2019: Countersubversive at Yale |
| 03.26.19 |
Neoliberal Catastrophism |
| 03.25.19 |
Thoughts on Russiagate, Mueller, and Trump’s Prospects for Reelection |
| 03.04.19 |
Do You Believe in Life After Hayek |
| 03.01.19 |
Interview about the Historovox with Bob Garfield of On the Media |
| 02.28.19 |
I was the target of a private Israeli intelligence firm, and all I got was this lousy t-shirt |
| 02.20.19 |
The Historovox Complex |
| 02.15.19 |
Adorno in America |
| 02.15.19 |
A State of Emergency or a State of Courts? |
| 02.14.19 |
What does Trump’s pending declaration of emergency mean about his power and the state of his presidency? |
| 02.12.19 |
When Adorno Had Fun |
| 02.10.19 |
Beer Track, Wine Track, Get Me Off This Fucking Train |
| 02.02.19 |
Adina Hoffman’s Ben Hecht: Fighting Words, Moving Pictures |
| 01.23.19 |
Neo-Nazi Fathers, Jewish Mothers, and Political Converts |
| 01.20.19 |
On that dreadful Brexit movie |
| 01.19.19 |
The Future of the Supreme Court in the Liberal Imagination |
| 10.20.18 |
Everything is in the hands of heaven except the fear of heaven |
| 10.08.18 |
The Scandal of Democracy: Seven Theses for the Socialist Left |
| 09.19.18 |
Love and Money: On Keith Gessen’s “A Terrible Country” |
| 09.16.18 |
Fall Talks (Updated) |
| 09.11.18 |
What is the connection between Ezra Pound, the Constitution, and the Steel Industry? |
| 08.26.18 |
As political scientists head to their annual convention, the workers at the convention hotels prepare to protest: Here’s what you can do |
| 08.25.18 |
Freedom and Socialism |
| 08.20.18 |
On Avital Ronell, Nimrod Reitman, and Sexual Harassment in the Academy |
| 08.05.18 |
The Day Zach Galifianakis Saved Obamacare |
| 07.27.18 |
Why the argument for democracy is now working for socialists rather than against them |
| 07.23.18 |
The Question of Russia and the Left: A response to Ryan Cooper |
| 07.16.18 |
On Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Palestine, and the Left |
| 07.15.18 |
On Liars, Politics, Michiko Kakutani, Martin Jay, and Hannah Arendt |
| 07.09.18 |
The Five Horsemen of the Apocalypse |
| 07.06.18 |
Did Anthony Kennedy ever sniff glue? And other stories of nominations past |
| 07.04.18 |
How eerie and unsettling it can be when people change their minds: From Thomas Mann to today |
| 06.06.18 |
The Creative Class Gets Organized |
| 05.19.18 |
Conservatism and the free market |
| 05.15.18 |
Chatting with Chris Hayes |
| 05.15.18 |
dein goldenes Haar Margarete, dein aschenes Haar Sulamith |
| 05.13.18 |
What we talk about when we talk about sex in the academy |
| 05.05.18 |
Shabbos Reading |
| 04.12.18 |
On Democracy Now! |
| 04.10.18 |
Reminder: at Harvard tonight and tomorrow |
| 04.07.18 |
When the Senate was a goyisch old boys’ club |
| 04.05.18 |
The Waning Hegemony of Republican Tax Cuts |
| 04.03.18 |
Why is the media—including the liberal media—supporting these teachers’ strikes? |
| 03.30.18 |
Talking liberal amnesia with Brooke Gladstone on On the Media |
| 03.21.18 |
The real danger of normalization |
| 02.19.18 |
Did Jill Abramson Plagiarize Ian Milhiser? |
| 02.06.18 |
Speaking events this spring |
| 02.04.18 |
Oedipus in Berlin: How a German television series about the Cold War re-tells an ancient myth |
| 02.02.18 |
A Constitutional Crisis? Or Partisans Without Purpose? |
| 01.28.18 |
Democracy is Norm Erosion |
| 01.13.18 |
Trump’s power is shakier than American democracy |
| 12.26.17 |
Clarence Thomas’s Straussian Moment: The Question of Slavery and the Founding, and a question for my political theory and intellectual history friends |
| 12.25.17 |
Politics in this country has never felt the way the it does now… |
| 12.23.17 |
Trump Everlasting |
| 12.16.17 |
Moon Over Alabama: Elections and the left |
| 12.09.17 |
When it comes to domination—whether of race, class, or gender—there are no workarounds |
| 12.09.17 |
If taxes are the thunder of world history, what kind of history did the GOP make this past week? |
| 12.08.17 |
When Libertarian Judges Rule |
| 11.25.17 |
Trump and the Princeton Tory |
| 11.21.17 |
I’ll be on The Leonard Lopate Show tomorrow—and here are a bunch of reviews and interviews |
| 11.16.17 |
Stokely Carmichael and Clarence Thomas |
| 11.13.17 |
Reminder: Talk tonight with Keith Gessen, and Wednesday night with Eddie Glaude |
| 11.01.17 |
Upcoming Events in LA and NYC with Keith Gessen and Eddie Glaude |
| 10.30.17 |
Because of her, it went well with him: Weinstein, Wieseltier, and the Enablers of Sexual Harassment |
| 10.25.17 |
What’s wrong with the discourse of norm erosion? |
| 10.23.17 |
Forty Years of The Firm: Trump and the Coasian Grotesque |
| 10.21.17 |
Noah and Shoah: Purification by Violence from the Flood to the Final Solution |
| 10.20.17 |
If you don’t think that some day you’ll be looking back fondly on Trump, think again: That day has already come. |
| 10.18.17 |
Was Bigger Thomas an Uptalker? |
| 10.15.17 |
“It’s Scalias All the Way Down”: Why the very thing that scholars think is the antidote to Trump is in fact the aide-de-Trump |
| 10.15.17 |
As we approach the one-year anniversary of Donald Trump’s election… |
| 10.13.17 |
Philosophers, Politicians, Political Theorists, and Social Media: The Arguments We Make |
| 10.13.17 |
Oh, Jonah: If only conservatives knew their own tradition, Part LXXVII |
| 10.12.17 |
Adam Smith’s Invisible Hand At Work: The Harvey Weinstein Story |
| 10.11.17 |
What do the NFL and Trump’s Birth Control Mandate Have in Common? Fear, American Style |
| 09.11.17 |
On the anniversary of 9/11 |
| 09.11.17 |
The Critic and the Clown: A Tale of Free Speech at Berkeley |
| 09.06.17 |
Kate Millett, 1934-2017 |
| 08.25.17 |
When Political Scientists Legitimate Torturers |
| 08.22.17 |
From Buckley to Bannon: Whither the Scribbler Scrapper of the Right |
| 08.21.17 |
Norm Erosion: The President Addresses the Nation about Afghanistan |
| 08.17.17 |
Reader’s Report |
| 08.17.17 |
When Kant Was Late |
| 08.16.17 |
What’s the connection between Lytton Strachey and Monica Lewinsky? |
| 08.11.17 |
On Marcel Ophuls’ The Memory of Justice |
| 08.06.17 |
How to win literary prizes |
| 08.03.17 |
The very thing that liberals think is imperiled by Trump will be the most potent source of his long-term power and effects |
| 08.03.17 |
In America, who’s more likely to win an election: a scam artist or a war hero? |
| 08.01.17 |
The Bane of Bain |
| 07.31.17 |
Why John Kelly won’t—in fact, can’t—save Trump |
| 07.30.17 |
Chelsea and Me: On the politics—or non-politics or pseudo-politics—of engaging a power player on Twitter |
| 07.29.17 |
Yesterday, I got into an argument with Chelsea Clinton. On Twitter. About Hannah Arendt. |
| 07.24.17 |
The Democrats: A party that wants to die but can’t pull the plug |
| 07.23.17 |
The Millennials are the American Earthquake |
| 07.21.17 |
All the president’s men were ratfuckers |
| 07.21.17 |
We have the opportunity for a realignment. We don’t have a party to do it. Yet. |
| 07.20.17 |
The Jewish Question has always been, for me, a European question |
| 07.18.17 |
Trump: The Profit Unarmed |
| 07.11.17 |
Unlike Jimmy Carter, Trump has been remarkably weak. And that may turn out to be his salvation. |
| 06.30.17 |
Fighting Fascism in France, 1936 v. 2017 |
| 06.28.17 |
On the Republicans’ stalled healthcare bill |
| 06.20.17 |
On China Miéville’s October: An Arendtian History of the Russian Revolution |
| 06.15.17 |
Why does the GOP stick with Trump? It’s all about the judges. |
| 06.03.17 |
Second Edition of The Reactionary Mind now available for order |
| 05.11.17 |
One Bernie With One Stone |
| 05.07.17 |
Trump is a Tyrant: The Devolution of an Argument |
| 05.05.17 |
His Mother’s Son |
| 05.04.17 |
What we talk about when we talk about Susan Sarandon |
| 04.29.17 |
A wise psychoanalyst once told me (sort of): look at what Trump does, not what he says |
| 04.27.17 |
On liberals, the left, and free speech: Something has changed, and it’s not what you think it is |
| 04.26.17 |
The Language of Pain, from Virginia Woolf to William Stanley Jevons |
| 04.22.17 |
Events, dear boy, events |
| 04.22.17 |
Have You Never Been Mello? On Bernie and Abortion in Omaha |
| 04.05.17 |
Eichmann in Jerusalem is a better guide to Trump Time than is Origins of Totalitarianism |
| 04.02.17 |
Why, when it comes to the Right, do we ignore events, contingency, and high politics?: What Arno Mayer Taught Me |
| 03.26.17 |
Trump’s Bermuda Triangle: Obamacare, Taxes, and the Debt |
| 03.22.17 |
What we’re hoping for with the Obamacare repeal vote: that the rage of the GOP will overwhelm its reason |
| 03.18.17 |
Why are there no great thinkers on the right today? |
| 03.17.17 |
Trump’s Budget and the Fiscal Crisis of the State: Something’s Gotta Give |
| 03.16.17 |
What Michael Rogin means to me, particularly in the Age of Trump: Traditional politics matters! |
| 03.14.17 |
The real parallel between Hitler and Trump |
| 03.12.17 |
At this year’s seder, don’t turn Trump into Pharaoh: treat him as a plague |
| 03.01.17 |
Political Criticism in the Age of Trump: A How-To, or A How-Not-To |
| 02.16.17 |
It’s time to start thinking about a realignment: 2 things for the left to do |
| 02.15.17 |
Stop freaking out about Pence |
| 02.14.17 |
3 Ways Forward For Trump |
| 02.13.17 |
Welfare Reform from Locke to the Clintons |
| 02.11.17 |
On the Yahrzeit of Talia Goldenberg, 1991-2014 |
| 02.11.17 |
Once upon a time, Trump was against extreme vetting |
| 02.10.17 |
Beauty and the Beast: Donald Trump as the Interior Decorator in Chief |
| 02.10.17 |
Upcoming Talks and Other Things |
| 02.09.17 |
Trump: 0. Democrats: 0. The People: 1. |
| 02.07.17 |
No lawyering this thing to death: Conservatives and the courts, from Nixon to Bush to Trump |
| 02.06.17 |
Peggy Noonan Speaks Truth: The Circuits Are Overloaded |
| 02.05.17 |
If you’re willing to support a boycott of US academic conferences over Trump’s ban, why not BDS? |
| 02.04.17 |
What if Trump Turns Out To Be… |
| 02.04.17 |
God Is an Accelerationist |
| 02.03.17 |
Trump was the best the Republican Party could do |
| 02.01.17 |
Morbid Thoughts in Time of Trump |
| 01.31.17 |
The American Terrible |
| 01.29.17 |
If Trump is a fascist, he may be the most backassward fascist we’ve ever seen |
| 01.28.17 |
Migrants and refugees detained at JFK Airport, which is named after a passionate defender of immigration |
| 01.27.17 |
Share the Earth |
| 01.27.17 |
David Hume in Defense of Judith Butler’s Writing Style |
| 01.27.17 |
Named and Inhabited Evil |
| 01.27.17 |
January Journal |
| 01.25.17 |
Rally today against Trump’s Plan for Refugees and Muslims |
| 01.22.17 |
Donald Trump: His Mother’s Son |
| 01.21.17 |
Donald Trump: Six Theses |
| 01.20.17 |
Trump’s Inaugural Address versus Reagan’s Inaugural Address |
| 01.20.17 |
Trumpland, Day 1: What effect will Trump have on phone sex? |
| 01.20.17 |
David Hume on the Inauguration of Donald Trump |
| 01.18.17 |
On how and how not to resist Trump |
| 01.11.17 |
Where did I go wrong? Or, why Trump may be like Jimmy Carter |
| 01.07.17 |
Trump and the Intelligence Agencies: On the Slow Collapse of Imperial Republics |
| 12.26.16 |
Defend George Ciccariello-Maher |
| 12.26.16 |
December Diary: From the Political to the Personal |
| 12.11.16 |
Against the Politics of Fear |
| 11.05.16 |
Viva Las Vegas! |
| 11.04.16 |
The US: Is She Becoming Undun? |
| 10.26.16 |
Edmund Niemann, 1945-2016 |
| 10.26.16 |
The Limits of Liberalism at Harvard |
| 10.24.16 |
1980 v. 2012 |
| 10.23.16 |
Six Reasons for Optimism (and one big one for pessimism) |
| 10.22.16 |
Private Goods, from Florence Nightingale to Wendy Brown |
| 10.15.16 |
Why I Won’t Be Appearing at the Brooklyn Commons on Wednesday |
| 10.12.16 |
Upcoming Gigs |
| 10.12.16 |
My Colin Kaepernick Moment: On not standing for the State of Israel in shul |
| 10.10.16 |
Trump is the ringmaster and the liberal media his unwitting clowns |
| 10.10.16 |
CUNY, All Too CUNY: Or, What Happens When Higher-Ed Hoodlums Aren’t Brought to Heel? |
| 10.10.16 |
Trump and Tomasky: Where Liberalism and Conservatism Meet |
| 10.08.16 |
Sex, Dice, and the Trump Tapes |
| 10.06.16 |
A Good Time for Revolution: On Strikes and the Harvard Man |
| 10.05.16 |
Harvard, In Theory and Practice |
| 10.05.16 |
Bowling in Bratislava: Remembrance, Rosh Hashanah, Eichmann, and Arendt |
| 10.01.16 |
When a Worker Freezes to Death in a Walk-In Freezer at the Westin Peachtree Plaza Hotel in Downtown Atlanta |
| 09.27.16 |
Donald Trump’s one strength: He understands that we are a nation of conmen (and women) |
| 09.27.16 |
Donald Trump: The Michael Dukakis of the Republican Party |
| 09.18.16 |
Capitalism in the Age of Revolution: Burke, Smith, and the Problem of Value |
| 09.12.16 |
Anti-Semitism at CUNY? At Brooklyn College? In the Department of Political Science? |
| 09.10.16 |
What happens when a history professor at Yale opposes a grad union but doesn’t know her history? |
| 09.05.16 |
Phyllis Schlafly, 1924-2016 |
| 09.05.16 |
Sheldon Wolin: Theoretician of the Present |
| 09.03.16 |
Save UMass Labor Center |
| 08.30.16 |
On Corruption at CUNY |
| 08.25.16 |
Honey, I’ve been slowly boring hard boards longer than you’ve been alive. |
| 08.24.16 |
Great Minds Think Alike |
| 08.19.16 |
Positions Available at Brooklyn College |
| 08.17.16 |
September Songs |
| 08.15.16 |
Donald Trump is the least of the GOP’s problems |
| 08.14.16 |
On Neoliberalism. Again. |
| 08.11.16 |
How Clinton Enables the Republican Party |
| 08.10.16 |
If I were worried that Clinton might lose, here’s what I would—and wouldn’t—do… |
| 08.09.16 |
Sam Tanenhaus on William Styron on Nat Turner: Have we moved on from the Sixties? The Nineties? |
| 08.09.16 |
My First Seven Jobs |
| 07.31.16 |
Trump’s Indecent Proposal |
| 07.30.16 |
Why does it matter that Donald Trump is not a novelty? |
| 07.29.16 |
Philadelphia Stories: From Reagan to Trump to the DNC |
| 07.29.16 |
The Other Night at Philadelphia |
| 07.27.16 |
Gag Me With Calhoun |
| 07.27.16 |
Booing and Nothingness |
| 07.26.16 |
Liberalism and Fear: What Montesquieu has to teach us about Clinton’s Use of Trump |
| 07.25.16 |
Trump knows how to rattle cages, without setting anyone free |
| 07.24.16 |
Power Behind the Throne |
| 07.24.16 |
Tim Kaine, and Other Faith-Based Politics |
| 07.21.16 |
Check Your Amnesia, Dude: On the Vox Generation of Punditry |
| 07.20.16 |
The Two Clarence Thomases |
| 07.18.16 |
What’s Going On? Thoughts on the Murder of the Police |
| 07.17.16 |
Bad Books |
| 07.11.16 |
We can get rid of the Hitlers and the Himmlers, but not the Speers |
| 07.11.16 |
Clarence Thomas: I was never a liberal, I was a radical |
| 07.08.16 |
It Has Begun |
| 07.06.16 |
Why Clinton’s New Tuition-Free Plan Matters |
| 07.06.16 |
Season of the Bro |
| 07.05.16 |
Still Blogging After All These Years |
| 07.03.16 |
My Resistance to Elie Wiesel |
| 07.02.16 |
From the Talmud to Judith Butler: Audiences as Co-Creators with—and of—the Public Intellectual |
| 07.01.16 |
Trains, Planes, and Automobiles: On the Left’s Ideas about Money and Freedom |
| 06.30.16 |
From God’s Lips to Clarence Thomas’s Ears |
| 06.29.16 |
Judith Butler as a Public Intellectual |
| 06.29.16 |
The Second Time Around: James Traub on Neoliberal Technocracy |
| 06.27.16 |
Unintended Consequences |
| 06.26.16 |
Clinton Opens Double-Digit Lead in National Poll |
| 06.25.16 |
Neera and Me: Two Theses about the American Ruling Class and One About Neera Tanden |
| 06.21.16 |
Maybe Money Is Speech After All: How Donald Trump’s Finances Measure His Legitimacy as a Candidate |
| 06.21.16 |
Writer’s Block |
| 06.19.16 |
Michael Tomasky, from June to December |
| 06.15.16 |
If you want Trump-ism to go, you have to reform the Democratic Party |
| 06.10.16 |
When Advertising is Action: Clarence Thomas Channels Hannah Arendt and Friedrich von Hayek |
| 06.04.16 |
Muhammad Ali, Thomas Hobbes, and the Politics of Fear |
| 06.03.16 |
8 Quick Thoughts on the Emmett Rensin Suspension |
| 06.03.16 |
History’s Great Lowlifes: From McCarthyism to Twitter |
| 05.29.16 |
The Relentless Shabbiness of CUNY: What Is To Be Done? |
| 05.24.16 |
What Bernie Sanders’s choices for the DNC platform committee tell us about the Israel/Palestine debate in the US |
| 05.21.16 |
Race Talk and the New Deal |
| 05.19.16 |
Love Me, Love Me, Love Me, I’m a Leninist |
| 05.19.16 |
Robert Kagan, Donald Trump, and the Liberal Imagination |
| 05.11.16 |
Michael Ratner, 1943-2016 |
| 05.11.16 |
Conservatism’s Constitutional Agenda |
| 05.10.16 |
Was Carl Schmitt Right After All? |
| 05.06.16 |
Respect for Three Administrators at Brooklyn College |
| 05.04.16 |
If Donald Trump is the George McGovern of the GOP, what does that make Hillary Clinton? |
| 05.03.16 |
What did we learn today? |
| 05.02.16 |
Today, I voted to authorize my union at CUNY to call a strike |
| 05.02.16 |
Daniel Aaron, 1912-2016 |
| 04.30.16 |
John C. Calhoun at Yale |
| 04.29.16 |
Neoliberalism: A Quick Follow-up |
| 04.27.16 |
When Neoliberalism Was Young: A Lookback on Clintonism before Clinton |
| 04.25.16 |
John Palattella: A Writer’s Editor |
| 04.21.16 |
What’s a Jewish holiday without a little pressure or guilt? Maybe it’s not a holiday at all. |
| 04.17.16 |
Maybe if you’re not at war with reality, you’re not focused enough: Bernie in Brooklyn |
| 04.15.16 |
CUNY and NYS hypocrisy on academic freedom: okay to boycott North Carolina and Mississippi, but not Israel |
| 04.15.16 |
Magical Realism, and other neoliberal delusions |
| 04.13.16 |
Once upon a time, leftists purged from American academe could find a refuge abroad. Not anymore. |
| 04.09.16 |
What’s going to happen to liberals when the Right begins to give way? |
| 04.07.16 |
I love my students |
| 04.06.16 |
Upcoming Talks on Hannah Arendt and Clarence Thomas |
| 04.06.16 |
Homo Politicus ≠ Homo Wonkus |
| 04.03.16 |
True confession: Sometimes I feel bad for Hillary Clinton |
| 04.02.16 |
A Very Brief Intellectual Autobiography |
| 04.01.16 |
In Bill Buckley’s apartment, there were trays of tissues and cigarettes |
| 03.31.16 |
What Donald Trump Can Learn From Frederick Douglass |
| 03.30.16 |
The arc of neoliberalism is long, but it bends toward the rich |
| 03.29.16 |
The Bernie Sanders Moment: Brought to you by the generation that has no future |
| 03.20.16 |
Historically, liberals and the Left have underestimated the Right. Today, they overestimate it. |
| 03.19.16 |
We’re Still in Nixonland: 20 theses about the state of politics today |
| 03.13.16 |
The Definitive Take on Donald Trump |
| 03.12.16 |
Are We Dying of History? |
| 03.11.16 |
Local 33, Yale, and the Spirit of Conservatism |
| 03.10.16 |
Liberalism and the Millennials |
| 03.06.16 |
“Two entries on Nancy Reagan’s birth certificate are still accurate—her sex and her color. Almost every other item was invented then or later reinvented.” |
| 03.04.16 |
Same as it ever was: From Barry Goldwater to Donald Trump, “This man scares me.” |
| 03.04.16 |
Trump Talk |
| 03.02.16 |
Super Tuesday: March Theses |
| 03.01.16 |
Notes on a Dismal and Delightful Campaign |
| 02.27.16 |
Why You Should Never Listen to the Pundits |
| 02.27.16 |
Hillary Clinton and Welfare Reform |
| 02.26.16 |
If Europeans are from Venus, and Americans from Mars, where’s Trump from? |
| 02.24.16 |
The Realist |
| 02.22.16 |
Slow Boring of Hard Boards |
| 02.15.16 |
See You in September |
| 02.14.16 |
Hillary Clinton: Still a Goldwater Girl After All These Years |
| 02.14.16 |
Law has flourished on the corpse of philosophy in America |
| 02.14.16 |
Scalia: The Donald Trump of the Supreme Court |
| 02.10.16 |
Is Hillary Clinton Running the Most Cynical Campaign in Recent History? |
| 02.09.16 |
The Blast That Swept Him Came Off New Hampshire Snowfields and Ice-Hung Forests |
| 02.08.16 |
To My Friends Who Support Hillary Clinton |
| 02.06.16 |
On Electability |
| 02.04.16 |
90% of what goes on at The New Yorker can be explained by Vulgar Marxism |
| 02.02.16 |
Every Movement Fails. Until It Succeeds. |
| 01.31.16 |
Hillary Clinton: The Ultimate Outsider |
| 01.31.16 |
For Any Leftist Who Has Spent Too Much Time in Meetings… |
| 01.28.16 |
Six Things You Need to Read About Donald Trump |
| 01.26.16 |
Abraham Lincoln on the More Realistic, Experienced Candidate… |
| 01.25.16 |
What the Clintons Mean to Me |
| 01.25.16 |
What is Hillary Clinton Up To When… |
| 01.24.16 |
On Ta-Nehisi Coates, Cass Sunstein, and Other Public Intellectuals |
| 01.23.16 |
Clinton’s Firewall in South Carolina is Melting Away… |
| 01.22.16 |
Bile, Bullshit, and Bernie: 16 Notes on the Democratic Primary |
| 01.22.16 |
First They Came For… |
| 01.20.16 |
Chickens Come Home to Roost, Palin-Style |
| 01.14.16 |
Ellen Meiksins Wood, 1942-2016 |
| 01.09.16 |
On Islamist Terror and the Left |
| 01.08.16 |
When White Men Complain… |
| 01.07.16 |
Clarence Thomas on the One-Party State that is our Two-Party System |
| 01.06.16 |
Goodbye, Lenin |
| 01.04.16 |
Economics is how we moderns do politics |
| 01.01.16 |
K Street in Nazi Germany |
| 12.30.15 |
Hitler’s Furniture |
| 12.27.15 |
This Muslim American Life: An Interview with Moustafa Bayoumi |
| 12.22.15 |
Democracy’s Descent |
| 12.20.15 |
Fiddler on the Roof: Our Sabbath Prayer |
| 12.17.15 |
Another Victory for BDS: Doug Henwood Refuses To Sell Translation Rights |
| 12.13.15 |
Another Question Raised by Benedict Anderson: What Makes an Idea Exciting for You? |
| 12.13.15 |
Benedict Anderson, 1936-2015 |
| 12.10.15 |
What if Donald Trump is the Lesser Evil? |
| 12.10.15 |
If You Were in Hell, How Would You Know It? |
| 12.09.15 |
How Will the Professors Act When Fascism Comes to America? |
| 12.09.15 |
Counterrevolutionary Internationale |
| 12.08.15 |
Trump and the Trumpettes: In Stereo |
| 12.04.15 |
We Need to Pay More Attention to Politics When We Talk about the Politics of Fear |
| 12.03.15 |
Catholic University Declares 1st Amendment Right To Ignore Catholicism |
| 11.25.15 |
Richard Cohen in Black and White |
| 11.24.15 |
On “The Takeaway,” I Talk about the Politics of Fear, Post-Paris |
| 11.22.15 |
When Universities Really Do Destroy the Past, We Don’t Care |
| 11.22.15 |
On Sentimentality and College |
| 11.21.15 |
What We Owe the Students at Princeton |
| 11.18.15 |
The Moloch of National Security |
| 11.17.15 |
Black Alumni at Yale Weigh In With Major List of Demands |
| 11.14.15 |
A Prayer For Peace |
| 11.13.15 |
How to Honor the Settlement Between UIUC and Steven Salaita |
| 11.12.15 |
UIUC Reaches Settlement with Steven Salaita |
| 11.12.15 |
What in God’s Name is the Head of PEN Talking About? |
| 11.10.15 |
Belated and Inadequate: My Thoughts on Carl Schorske |
| 11.06.15 |
Liberalism = Conservatism + Time |
| 11.01.15 |
A Patience With Your Own Crap: Philip Roth on Writing |
| 10.30.15 |
When We Betray Our Students |
| 10.28.15 |
John Kasich, Meet Ronald Reagan |
| 10.23.15 |
Sheldon Wolin, 1922-2015 |
| 10.21.15 |
Ecce Douchebag: Richard Cohen on Tipping |
| 10.14.15 |
How Harvard Fights Unions: By Conceding the Union’s Most Basic Claims |
| 10.14.15 |
You’ve Changed, You’re Not the Angel I Once Knew: David Brooks on the GOP |
| 10.12.15 |
Publics That Don’t Exist and the Intellectuals Who Write For Them |
| 10.09.15 |
When Conservatives Invoke Lincoln: From Dred Scott to Obergefell |
| 10.02.15 |
NYT Public Editor Says NYTBR Conflict of Interest Is a Conflict of Interest |
| 09.30.15 |
Clusterfuck of Corruption at NYT Book Review |
| 09.28.15 |
Sometimes You Can Smell the Scotch Coming Off the Web Page (Updated) |
| 09.24.15 |
Flaubert on Kissinger/Nixon |
| 09.24.15 |
Birds of a Feather |
| 09.20.15 |
Machtpolitik |
| 09.19.15 |
When Henry Edited Hannah |
| 09.19.15 |
No Safe Havens: From Henry Kissinger to Barack Obama |
| 09.13.15 |
Smells Like Mean Spirit: Conservatism Past and Present |
| 09.11.15 |
On the Other 9/11: Pinochet, Kissinger, Obama |
| 09.09.15 |
Richard Flathman, 1934-2015 |
| 09.08.15 |
The Laggards of Academe |
| 09.08.15 |
The Petty Pilfering of Minutes: Wage Theft in Contemporary America |
| 09.07.15 |
Prometheus Bound: A Labor Day Story for the Left? |
| 09.04.15 |
A Story for Labor Day |
| 08.29.15 |
Duke, Berkeley, Columbia, Oh My: What are our students are trying to tell us |
| 08.28.15 |
Security Politics, Anti-Capitalism, Student Activists, and the Left |
| 08.23.15 |
After Three Weeks of Terrible Publicity, 41 UIUC Leaders Call on Administration to Resolve Crisis (Updated) |
| 08.22.15 |
No more fire, the water next time: Ta-Nehisi Coates on Global Warming and White Supremacy |
| 08.21.15 |
Ta-Nehisi Coates: Three Not-So-Easy Pieces |
| 08.16.15 |
Family Values Fascism, from Vichy to Donald Trump |
| 08.14.15 |
Why I’m Not Crying Over the Fate of Chancellor Wise |
| 08.14.15 |
On the Cult of Personality and the Tolerance of Rich People |
| 08.14.15 |
Wise throws down the gauntlet, consults with lawyers over her legal “options” against UIUC |
| 08.10.15 |
Academic Freedom at UIUC: Freedom to Pursue Viewpoints and Positions That Reflect the Values of the State |
| 08.08.15 |
Keeping Kosher and the Salaita Boycott |
| 08.08.15 |
New Questions Raised About Who Exactly Made the Decision to Fire Salaita |
| 08.07.15 |
Chancellor Wise Forced To Release Emails From Personal Account |
| 08.06.15 |
On the One-Year Anniversary of the Salaita Story, Some Good News |
| 08.02.15 |
Capitalism Can’t Remember Where I Left My Keys |
| 07.31.15 |
The Bullshit Beyond Ideology |
| 07.25.15 |
On the New York Intellectuals |
| 07.24.15 |
Foreign Policy is Domestic Policy is Foreign Policy is Domestic Policy is… |
| 07.17.15 |
When David Brooks Knows He May Not Know Whereof He Speaks |
| 07.14.15 |
Monday Morning at the Wagners |
| 07.10.15 |
American Ambivalence: The Limitations of the Writer in the US |
| 07.10.15 |
Walt Whitman, Bolshevik |
| 07.09.15 |
Mary McCarthy on the Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction |
| 07.08.15 |
Nietzsche on the Situation in Greece |
| 07.05.15 |
Aladdin and Value |
| 06.29.15 |
From Whitney Houston to Obergefell: Clarence Thomas on Human Dignity |
| 06.29.15 |
Out in Texas: Where public is private and private is public |
| 06.24.15 |
Mi Casa Es Su Casa |
| 06.24.15 |
Why Do We Fear the Things We Do: Maybe the Wrong Question (Updated) |
| 06.21.15 |
Thoughts on Charleston |
| 06.19.15 |
You Have to Go: Dylann Roof in Historical Perspective |
| 06.17.15 |
The Liberating Power of the Dismal Science |
| 06.15.15 |
If Only Chancellor Wise Read John Stuart Mill… |
| 06.09.15 |
Hannah Arendt and Philip Roth: Parallel Lives |
| 06.07.15 |
How Corporations Control Politics |
| 06.06.15 |
Poetry and Power: Challenges for an Aesthetics of the Left |
| 06.05.15 |
The Narcissism of Our Metaphors |
| 05.25.15 |
Fight Racism. Confirm Clarence Thomas. (Updated) |
| 05.19.15 |
Joseph de Maistre in Saudi Arabia |
| 05.13.15 |
Arendt, Israel, and Why Jews Have So Many Rules |
| 05.05.15 |
From the Department of You Just Can’t Make This Shit Up |
| 05.03.15 |
Frederick Douglass in and on Baltimore |
| 04.26.15 |
Splendor in the Nordic Grass |
| 04.26.15 |
When George Packer gets bored, I get scared: It Means he’s in the mood for war |
| 04.25.15 |
Why the Left Should Support Star Wars: It’ll Never Work |
| 04.24.15 |
Columbia University Bans Workers From Speaking Spanish |
| 04.23.15 |
A military operation so vital to US interests they forgot to name it: What would Hobbes say? |
| 04.23.15 |
Is the public intellectual a thing of the past? What do I think of Cornel West? |
| 04.22.15 |
Checking Your Privilege At Auschwitz |
| 04.21.15 |
Primo Levi, “For Adolf Eichmann” |
| 04.20.15 |
Conservatism is not about time, the past, tradition, or history |
| 04.20.15 |
The Avoidance of the Intellectual |
| 04.19.15 |
To Extend the Word Art to All the Externals of Our Life |
| 04.17.15 |
Yom HaShoah: Three Readings |
| 04.14.15 |
Before you get that PhD… |
| 04.06.15 |
From the Lefty Profs Use Lefty Buzzwords to Break Strikes Department |
| 04.05.15 |
Alumni Diplomacy |
| 03.31.15 |
Counterrevolutionary Backsliding, from the Golden Calf to Keynes |
| 03.29.15 |
More on Biden and the Jews: A Response to Critics of My Salon Column |
| 03.29.15 |
Do the Jews Not Belong in the United States? |
| 03.27.15 |
Employment Contracts versus the Covenant at Sinai |
| 03.27.15 |
Sam Fleischacker’s Followup |
| 03.26.15 |
Why Is So Much of Our Discussion of Higher Ed Driven by Elite Institutions? |
| 03.25.15 |
Nakba, the Night of Bad Dreams |
| 03.22.15 |
Biden to American Jews: We Can’t Protect You, Only Israel Can |
| 03.19.15 |
“It breaks my heart to say this, but today I don’t feel I can call myself a Zionist any longer.” |
| 03.19.15 |
Readings for Passover: Rousseau on Moses and the Jews |
| 03.18.15 |
What Every Reporter Should Be Asking John Kerry Between Now and April 18 |
| 03.13.15 |
British Government Tries to Dershowitz Southampton University |
| 03.13.15 |
Without Getting Into History |
| 03.09.15 |
The Lives They Touched |
| 03.09.15 |
Irony Watch |
| 03.08.15 |
My new column at Salon: on racism, privilege talk, and schools |
| 03.07.15 |
Thomas Hobbes on Daylight Saving |
| 02.28.15 |
Awakening to Cultural Studies |
| 02.27.15 |
What do Hannah Arendt and Mel Brooks Have in Common? |
| 02.27.15 |
Darkness at Noon: The Musical |
| 02.19.15 |
Human Rights, Blah Blah Blah |
| 02.18.15 |
We Won! UMass Backs Down! |
| 02.16.15 |
These are the Terrorists Whom UMass Will No Longer Allow to Apply |
| 02.16.15 |
The Real Mad Men of History |
| 02.15.15 |
I am a Communist, not an Idiot |
| 02.14.15 |
State Department Expresses Surprise Over UMass policy |
| 02.13.15 |
I, the Holocaust, Am Your God |
| 02.12.15 |
U. Mass. Will Not Admit Iranian Students to Schools of Engineering and Natural Sciences (Updated) |
| 02.12.15 |
Kristin Ross on The Paris Commune |
| 02.12.15 |
How Will It End? |
| 02.11.15 |
When Conservatives Didn’t Get Tough on Crime: National Review on the Eichmann Trial |
| 02.09.15 |
How to Fight for Human Rights in the 21st Century |
| 02.08.15 |
Arendt LOL |
| 02.08.15 |
Reading the NYT, I Begin to Sympathize with Clarence Thomas |
| 02.06.15 |
Blog Redesign |
| 02.04.15 |
The Epic Bureaucrat |
| 02.01.15 |
A Tale of Two Snowballs |
| 01.27.15 |
On International Holocaust Remembrance Day |
| 01.27.15 |
Gleichschaltung |
| 01.26.15 |
On Public Intellectuals |
| 01.21.15 |
Let’s Make a Deal |
| 01.14.15 |
Thoughts on Violence |
| 01.13.15 |
The Touchy Irving Howe |
| 01.11.15 |
The Internationalism of the American Civil War |
| 01.08.15 |
NYPD Goes Full Mario Savio |
| 01.07.15 |
The Age of Acquiescence |
| 01.04.15 |
Baghdad, Yesterday, Jerusalem, Tomorrow |
| 12.29.14 |
Even the liberal New Republic… |
| 12.28.14 |
From Galicia to Brooklyn: Seven Generations of My Family |
| 12.26.14 |
The one thing Leon Wieseltier ever got right |
| 12.23.14 |
Golda Meier Saw the Future |
| 12.22.14 |
Can it be? A New Republic that’s not self-important? |
| 12.22.14 |
A Weimar-y Vibe |
| 12.22.14 |
Because you were strangers in the land of Egypt |
| 12.15.14 |
NYT Weighs in on Civility and the Salaita Case |
| 12.14.14 |
“True, it all happened a long time ago, but it has haunted me ever since.” |
| 12.14.14 |
Final Thoughts on The New Republic |
| 12.13.14 |
In Defense of Taking Things Out of Context |
| 12.12.14 |
Three Thoughts on Liberal Zionism and BDS |
| 12.12.14 |
Lenin Loved the New York Public Library. Why can’t we? |
| 12.07.14 |
Alfred Kazin on The New Republic in 1989: Parvenu Smugness, Post-Liberal Bitterness, and Town Gossips |
| 12.06.14 |
Saskia Sassen…Willem Sassen…Adolf Eichmann |
| 12.05.14 |
The problem with The New Republic |
| 12.05.14 |
More News on the Salaita Case |
| 11.22.14 |
Why are you singling out my posts on Israel/Palestine? |
| 11.21.14 |
In Response to Pending Grad Strike at U. Oregon, Administration Urges Faculty to Make Exams Multiple Choice or Allow Students Not to Take Them |
| 11.20.14 |
Steven Salaita at Brooklyn College |
| 11.13.14 |
Israel, Palestine, and the “Myth and Symbol” of American Studies |
| 11.13.14 |
The Labor Theory of Value at the University of Illinois |
| 11.13.14 |
David Ricardo: Machiavelli of the Margin |
| 11.11.14 |
A Palestinian Exception…at Brooklyn College |
| 11.11.14 |
Contemporary liberalism: minimalism at home, maximalism abroad |
| 11.10.14 |
Sign Petition for Princeton to Divest from Companies Involved in the Israeli Occupation |
| 11.10.14 |
Multicultural, Intersectional: It’s Not Your Daddy’s KKK |
| 11.09.14 |
Thoughts on Migration and Exile on the 25th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall |
| 11.08.14 |
From Berlin to Jerusalem |
| 11.08.14 |
Send in the Couch Brigades: A Palimpsest of Freud, Phillip Rieff, and the Sandinistas |
| 11.04.14 |
Adjunct Positions at Brooklyn College |
| 11.02.14 |
The Bad Stats of Adolph Eichmann |
| 11.02.14 |
Jews, Camps, and the Red Cross |
| 10.29.14 |
The Problem with Liberalism Today |
| 10.27.14 |
Liberalism Then and Now |
| 10.26.14 |
Dayenu in Reverse: The Passover Canon of Arendt’s Critics |
| 10.25.14 |
On Arendt and Jewish Collaboration with the Nazis |
| 10.23.14 |
What’s the point of having a political theory of American insanity when American insanity so seamlessly theorizes itself? |
| 10.23.14 |
Sheldon Wolin’s the reason I began drinking coffee |
| 10.23.14 |
David Brooks, Edmund Burke, and Me |
| 10.22.14 |
Adolph Eichmann: Funny Man? |
| 10.21.14 |
Ah, Princeton: Where the 1950s never died |
| 10.21.14 |
Congratulations, John Adams: You Got CUNY’d |
| 10.19.14 |
When I draw comparisons between libertarians and slaveholders… |
| 10.17.14 |
George Lakoff and Me |
| 10.17.14 |
Of Collaborators and Careerists |
| 10.16.14 |
Princeton Hillel Ponders Barring Princeton Professor from Speaking at Event on His Own Campus |
| 10.14.14 |
David Greenglass, 1922-2014 |
| 10.13.14 |
There’s got to be a better way to prep for class |
| 10.13.14 |
That’s Not Nice! |
| 10.12.14 |
Von Mises to Milton Friedman: You’re all a bunch of socialists |
| 10.07.14 |
Violence Against Women and the Politics of Fear |
| 10.06.14 |
Cynthia Ozick and the Palestinians |
| 10.04.14 |
Two-Year Visiting Professor Position at Brooklyn College |
| 10.03.14 |
Forgiveness, Yom Kippur, and Arendt |
| 10.02.14 |
References No One Seems to Have Checked |
| 10.02.14 |
Did Hannah Arendt Ever See Eichmann Testify? A Second Reply to Richard Wolin |
| 10.01.14 |
The Arendt Wars Continue: Richard Wolin v. Seyla Benhabib |
| 09.30.14 |
Why I’m always on the internet… |
| 09.29.14 |
O, Adam Smith, Wherefore Art Thou? |
| 09.29.14 |
Smith/Brecht |
| 09.29.14 |
Is the Boycott of the University of Illinois Illiberal? |
| 09.28.14 |
It’s Not the Crime, It’s the Cover-up |
| 09.27.14 |
What Is Wrong With Zionism |
| 09.26.14 |
Copyrights and Property Wrongs |
| 09.24.14 |
Thinking about Hannah Arendt and Adolph Eichmann on Erev Rosh Hashanah |
| 09.20.14 |
From the Arms Race to Climate Change, Conservatives Have Never Cared Much About the Day After |
| 09.19.14 |
Chronicle of Higher Ed Profiles Me and My Blog |
| 09.18.14 |
Barack Obama’s Upside-Down Schmittianism |
| 09.17.14 |
Forget Pinkwashing; Israel Has a Lavender Scare |
| 09.15.14 |
I have here in my hand a list of 205 |
| 09.15.14 |
How Do I Deal With Israel/Palestine in the Classroom? I Don’t. |
| 09.14.14 |
You could listen to Chancellor Wise on civility… |
| 09.14.14 |
Settler Society, Global Empire: Aziz Rana and Nikhil Singh on the American State |
| 09.13.14 |
It’s directly against company policy for an employee to use blood to write “revenge” on the conference room walls |
| 09.12.14 |
Six Statements on Salaita in Search of a Thesis |
| 09.12.14 |
Why Arendt might not have read Benito Cereno (if she did indeed not read Benito Cereno) |
| 09.11.14 |
The Personnel is Political |
| 09.10.14 |
One last chance to send a BRIEF email to the Board of Trustees |
| 09.09.14 |
A Palestinian Exception to the First Amendment |
| 09.09.14 |
Over 5000 Scholars Boycotting the UIUC |
| 09.08.14 |
Salaita to Speak at Press Conference Tomorrow at UIUC |
| 09.08.14 |
Civility, One Chair to Another |
| 09.07.14 |
The Reason I Don’t Believe in Civility is That I Do Believe in Civility |
| 09.07.14 |
Academic Mores and Manners in the Salaita Affair |
| 09.07.14 |
Who is Steven Salaita? |
| 09.06.14 |
More Procedural Violations in Salaita Case (Updated) |
| 09.05.14 |
Political Scientists: Boycott UIUC! |
| 09.05.14 |
A UI Trustee Breaks Ranks! We Have an Opening! |
| 09.05.14 |
Breaking: Chancellor Wise Disavows Her Own Decision as Her Administration Unravels |
| 09.04.14 |
A Palestine Picture Book |
| 09.04.14 |
Chancellor Wise Speaks |
| 09.03.14 |
More Votes of No Confidence, a Weird Ad, and a Declaration of a Non-Emergency |
| 09.03.14 |
E-Mail the University of Illinois Board of Trustees (Updated) |
| 09.02.14 |
Reading the Salaita Papers |
| 09.01.14 |
Breaking News! Wise to Forward Salaita Appointment to Trustees! |
| 09.01.14 |
Labor Day Readings |
| 08.31.14 |
Salaita By the Numbers: 5 Cancelled Lectures, 3 Votes of No Confidence, 3849 Boycotters, and 1 NYT Article (Updated Thrice) |
| 08.26.14 |
What Would Mary Beard Do? Bonnie Honig On How a Different Chancellor Might Respond to the Salaita Affair |
| 08.25.14 |
Follow the Money at the University of Illinois |
| 08.24.14 |
A Letter from Bonnie Honig to Phyllis Wise |
| 08.24.14 |
Sneaking Out the Back Door to Hang Out With Those Hoodlum Friends of Mine |
| 08.24.14 |
A Modest Proposal |
| 08.23.14 |
Cary Nelson Was For Fairness Before He Was Against It |
| 08.23.14 |
More than 3000 Scholars Boycott the University of Illinois! |
| 08.21.14 |
2700 Scholars Boycott UI; Philosopher Cancels Prestigious Lecture; Salaita Deemed Excellent Teacher; and UI Trustees Meet Again (Updated) (Updated again) |
| 08.18.14 |
Breaking: UI Trustees meeting, as we tweet |
| 08.15.14 |
What is an Employee? |
| 08.15.14 |
Top Legal Scholars Decry “Chilling” Effect of Salaita Dehiring |
| 08.14.14 |
Over 1500 Scholars to University of Illinois: We Will Not Engage With You! |
| 08.13.14 |
New Revelations in the Salaita Affair; Two New Statements of Refusal |
| 08.13.14 |
More Than 275 Scholars Declare They Will Not Engage With University of Illinois |
| 08.12.14 |
Russell Berman is against one-sided panels… |
| 08.12.14 |
Calling all English Professors |
| 08.12.14 |
Calling All Political Scientists (and Philosophers) |
| 08.10.14 |
The Cary Nelson Standard of HireFire (Updated) (Updated again) |
| 08.08.14 |
A Next Step in the Fight for Steven Salaita? |
| 08.08.14 |
What Exactly Did Steven Salaita Mean By That Tweet? |
| 08.07.14 |
Shit and Curses, and Other Updates on the Steven Salaita Affair (Updated) |
| 08.06.14 |
Would the University of Illinois HireFire Nathan Glazer? |
| 08.06.14 |
University of Illinois Chancellor Comes out in Favor of Academic Freedom! Oh, wait a minute… |
| 08.06.14 |
Six Statements Cary Nelson Thinks Should Get You Unhired at the University of Illinois |
| 08.06.14 |
Another Professor Punished for Anti-Israel Views |
| 08.01.14 |
Capitalism and Slavery |
| 07.31.14 |
Operation Firm Cliff |
| 07.29.14 |
It’s On! |
| 07.28.14 |
I’m joining Norm Finkelstein tomorrow to commit civil disobedience in protest of Israel’s war on Gaza |
| 07.28.14 |
The Higher Sociopathy |
| 07.27.14 |
A Gaza Breviary |
| 07.16.14 |
An Archive For Buckley, Kristol, and Podhoretz Interviews? |
| 07.12.14 |
The Limits of Libertarianism |
| 06.30.14 |
Why Go After Women and Workers? The Reactionary Mind Explains It All For You. |
| 06.30.14 |
A Reader’s Guide to Hobby Lobby |
| 06.28.14 |
The Disappointment of Hannah Arendt (the film) |
| 06.27.14 |
When the CIO Was Young |
| 06.25.14 |
Supreme Court rules: the government can’t search your cellphone without a warrant; the boss can. |
| 06.19.14 |
An Imperial Shit |
| 06.17.14 |
When Presidents Get Bored |
| 06.16.14 |
Why Aren’t the Poor More Responsible? |
| 06.14.14 |
My Dirty Little Secret: I Ride the Rails to Read |
| 05.30.14 |
Going to My College Reunion |
| 05.30.14 |
What Made Evangelical Christians Come Out of the Closet? |
| 05.26.14 |
When Intellectuals Go to War |
| 05.26.14 |
Free-Market Orientalism |
| 05.24.14 |
These Housekeepers Asked Sheryl Sandberg to Lean In with Them. What Happened Next Will Not Amaze You. |
| 05.22.14 |
And now, for another view of Hitler |
| 05.21.14 |
All the News That Was Fit to Print Ten Years Ago |
| 05.20.14 |
Stalinism on the Installment Plan |
| 05.19.14 |
The War on Workers’ Rights |
| 05.16.14 |
Mr. Carter’s Missive |
| 05.13.14 |
Reality Bites |
| 05.13.14 |
The Gender Gap in Political Theory |
| 05.08.14 |
Machiavelli: The Novel |
| 05.05.14 |
Clarence Thomas’s Counterrevolution |
| 05.05.14 |
The Calculus of Their Consent: Gary Becker, Pinochet, and the Chicago Boys |
| 05.01.14 |
Queering the Strike |
| 04.30.14 |
The Closer You Get |
| 04.30.14 |
Clarence X? |
| 04.29.14 |
What is Enlightenment when the State is Schizophrenic? It’s The Jewish Question! |
| 04.27.14 |
How Long Do You Have to Practice Apartheid Before You Become an Apartheid State? |
| 04.27.14 |
Has There Ever Been a Better Patron of the Arts Than the CIA? |
| 04.26.14 |
Schooling in Capitalist America |
| 04.25.14 |
How We Do Intellectual History at the New York Times |
| 04.25.14 |
NYU: where Socratic dialogue is a Soviet-style four-hour oration from the Dear Leader |
| 04.25.14 |
My Intro to American Government syllabus… |
| 04.25.14 |
On Writerly Historians |
| 04.24.14 |
Speaking on Clarence Thomas at the University of Washington |
| 04.23.14 |
On the death of Gabriel García Marquez |
| 04.22.14 |
Classical Liberalism ≠ Libertarianism, Vol. 2 |
| 04.22.14 |
Tyler Cowen is one of Nietzsche’s Marginal Children |
| 04.22.14 |
Three Theses (not really: more like two graphs and a link) on Nazism and Capitalism |
| 04.20.14 |
Why Does the Winger Whine? What Does the Winger Want? |
| 04.20.14 |
Next time someone tells you the Nazis were anti-capitalist… |
| 04.17.14 |
Eleven Things You Did Not Know About Clarence Thomas |
| 04.13.14 |
Being in Egypt: When Jews Were a Demographic Time Bomb |
| 04.12.14 |
Wherever you live, it is probably Egypt: Thoughts on Passover |
| 03.27.14 |
Upcoming Talks and Events |
| 03.25.14 |
Is the Left More Opposed to Free Speech Today than It Used to Be? |
| 03.22.14 |
Hannah Arendt, Lawrence of Arabia, and Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 |
| 03.20.14 |
The Uncharacteristically Obtuse Mr. Chait |
| 03.12.14 |
Further Thoughts on Nick Kristof |
| 03.11.14 |
David Brooks: Better In the Original German |
| 03.04.14 |
There’s no business like Shoah business |
| 03.02.14 |
Vanessa Redgrave at the Oscars |
| 03.01.14 |
Gaza: A Tower of Babel in Reverse |
| 02.20.14 |
Backlash Barbie |
| 02.19.14 |
James Madison and Elia Kazan: Theory and Practice |
| 02.16.14 |
Look Who Nick Kristof’s Saving Now |
| 02.14.14 |
Valentine’s Day |
| 02.14.14 |
Silence and Segregation: On Clarence Thomas as a Lacanian Performance Artist |
| 02.13.14 |
Death and Taxes |
| 02.08.14 |
Did Bob Dahl Really Say That? (Updated) |
| 02.06.14 |
But for the boycott there would be academic freedom |
| 02.05.14 |
Peter Beinart Speaks Truth About BDS |
| 02.04.14 |
Why this NYS bill is so much worse than I thought |
| 02.04.14 |
The NYT Gets It Right — and, Even More Amazing, We Have an Open Letter For You to Sign! |
| 02.03.14 |
Columbia University to NYS Legislature: Back Off! |
| 02.02.14 |
An Unoriginal Thought About the Israel/Palestine Conflict |
| 02.01.14 |
Why You Should Worry More About NYS Legislation than the ASA Boycott of Israel |
| 01.31.14 |
Jewfros in Palestine |
| 01.29.14 |
The Beauty of the Blacklist: In Memory of Pete Seeger |
| 01.24.14 |
Where Would the Tea Party Be Without Feminism? |
| 01.22.14 |
O Yale…(Updated, Again and Again and Again) |
| 01.18.14 |
The Poetics and Politics of Time |
| 01.17.14 |
I’ve Looked at BDS from Both Sides Now. Oh, wait…(Updated) |
| 01.16.14 |
The N Word in Israel |
| 01.15.14 |
Aristocrats of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your…shame. |
| 01.13.14 |
More News on Charges Involving Brooklyn College Worker Education Center |
| 01.12.14 |
The Lights of Jaffa |
| 01.12.14 |
If I forget thee, O Jerusalem |
| 01.11.14 |
The Implication of “Why Single Out Israel?” Is Do Nothing At All |
| 01.10.14 |
A Challenge to Critics of BDS |
| 01.09.14 |
Alan Dershowitz Wants You! |
| 01.08.14 |
The New McCarthyites: BDS, Its Critics, and Academic Freedom |
| 01.06.14 |
From Here to Eternity: The Occupation in Historical Perspective |
| 01.02.14 |
A Very Elite Backlash |
| 01.01.14 |
Are Israeli Universities Critics of or Collaborators with the Israeli Government? |
| 12.29.13 |
A Very Bourgeois Post on Buying a House |
| 12.28.13 |
NYU President John Sexton Supports the Boycott of Israel. Just Not the ASA Boycott. |
| 12.23.13 |
Does the ASA Boycott Violate Academic Freedom? A Roundtable |
| 12.19.13 |
My Christmas Picks |
| 12.18.13 |
When it comes to the boycott of Israel, who has the real double standard? |
| 12.18.13 |
Freud on Global Warming |
| 12.18.13 |
David Brooks Says |
| 12.13.13 |
A Response to Michael Kazin on BDS and Campus Activism (Updated) |
| 12.11.13 |
Must Malcolm Gladwell Mean What He Says? |
| 12.10.13 |
Socialism: Converting Hysterical Misery into Ordinary Unhappiness for a Hundred Years |
| 12.09.13 |
We Are an Open Hillel (Updated Again) |
| 12.07.13 |
Albert Camus Dancing |
| 12.06.13 |
Jumaane Williams and Dov Hikind |
| 12.04.13 |
When Professors Oppose Unions |
| 11.24.13 |
Can I Come Back into the Tent Now, Rabbi Goldberg? |
| 11.23.13 |
Adam Smith ♥ High Wages |
| 11.21.13 |
What a F*ing Scandal the Senate Is |
| 11.16.13 |
Only Bertrand Russell could ever write something like this |
| 11.16.13 |
My Life |
| 11.12.13 |
Socialism would mean… |
| 11.08.13 |
A Footnote to History |
| 11.08.13 |
ALEC supports worker collectivism and redistribution of wealth |
| 11.08.13 |
Speak, Memory |
| 11.07.13 |
Right to Work Laws are Good for Unions, but not for the Chamber of Commerce |
| 11.02.13 |
LBJ on Black Power |
| 10.31.13 |
Dayenu at Yale |
| 10.30.13 |
The Right to an Education: This Won’t Hurt a Bit |
| 10.30.13 |
When Richard Nixon Met Karl Polanyi |
| 10.28.13 |
For the New Intellectual… |
| 10.24.13 |
Burke in Debt |
| 10.23.13 |
The Moderate and the McCarthyite: The Case of Robert Taft |
| 10.20.13 |
How I Met Your Mother, or, When Unions Disrupt the Disruptors |
| 10.19.13 |
Eric Alterman v. Max Blumenthal |
| 10.17.13 |
The History of Fear, Part 5 |
| 10.15.13 |
Nozick: Libertarians are “filled…with resentment at other freer ways of being” |
| 10.11.13 |
Same As It Ever Was |
| 10.09.13 |
WTF Does Obama Think They Were Doing at Stonewall? |
| 10.08.13 |
Upstairs, Downstairs at the University of Chicago |
| 10.08.13 |
Study Finds Grad Student Unions Actually Improve Things |
| 10.07.13 |
The only people who cared about literature were the KGB |
| 10.05.13 |
David Grossman v. Max Blumenthal |
| 10.04.13 |
The Washington Post: America’s Imperial Scribes |
| 10.03.13 |
Mark Zuckerberg, Meet George Pullman |
| 10.03.13 |
Adam Smith on the Mobility of Labor v. Capital |
| 10.02.13 |
Adam Smith Was Never an Adjunct |
| 09.30.13 |
The History of Fear, Part 4 |
| 09.30.13 |
Yes, You Can Be Fired for Liking My Little Pony |
| 09.29.13 |
The History of Fear, Part 3 |
| 09.28.13 |
The History of Fear, Part 2 |
| 09.27.13 |
The History of Fear, Part 1 |
| 09.25.13 |
Classical Liberalism ≠ Libertarianism |
| 09.24.13 |
Van Jones Does Gershom Scholem One Better |
| 09.24.13 |
The Voice of the Counterrevolution |
| 09.24.13 |
If things seem better in Jerusalem, it’s because they’re worse |
| 09.22.13 |
I was on NPR Weekend Edition |
| 09.21.13 |
David Petraeus: Voldemort Comes to CUNY |
| 09.19.13 |
Faculty to University of Oregon: Oh No We Don’t! |
| 09.18.13 |
When Kafka was NOT the rage |
| 09.15.13 |
University of Oregon to Faculty: You Belong to Me! |
| 09.13.13 |
Adam Smith: The Real Spirit of Capitalism? |
| 09.12.13 |
Marshall Berman, 1940-2013 |
| 09.11.13 |
I feel about Henry Kissinger the way Edmund Burke felt about Warren Hastings |
| 09.11.13 |
It’s 9/11. Do you know where Henry Kissinger is? |
| 09.06.13 |
Jews Without Israel |
| 09.01.13 |
When it comes to Edward Snowden, the London Times of 1851 was ahead of the New York Times of 2013 |
| 08.24.13 |
Jesus Christ, I’m at Yale |
| 08.15.13 |
Jean Bethke Elshtain Was No Realist |
| 08.01.13 |
Robert Bellah, McCarthyism, and Harvard |
| 07.31.13 |
Benno Schmidt, what university are you a trustee of? |
| 07.30.13 |
More Information on Brooklyn College Worker Ed Center |
| 07.28.13 |
Islam Is the Jewish Question of the 21st Century |
| 07.26.13 |
Please do not sign Brooklyn College Worker Ed Petition |
| 07.24.13 |
ACLU Demands Loyalty of Its Employees |
| 07.22.13 |
When it comes to our parents, we are all the memoirists of writers |
| 07.19.13 |
Jackson Lears on Edward Snowden |
| 07.19.13 |
Libertarianism, the Confederacy, and Historical Memory |
| 07.16.13 |
If you’re getting lessons in democracy from Margaret Thatcher, you’re doing it wrong |
| 07.15.13 |
What the Market Will Bear |
| 07.15.13 |
CUNY Backs Down (Way Down) on Petraeus |
| 07.12.13 |
Next Week in Petraeusgate |
| 07.11.13 |
Paul Krugman on Petraeusgate |
| 07.11.13 |
Petraeus Prerequisites |
| 07.10.13 |
This is What We’re Paying $150,000 For? |
| 07.10.13 |
More Coverup at CUNY? |
| 07.08.13 |
NYC Councilman Initiates Petition to CUNY re Petraeus |
| 07.07.13 |
A Debate on Petraeusgate |
| 07.07.13 |
When Philip Roth Taught at CUNY |
| 07.07.13 |
Charles Murray Meets Dr. Mengele in the California Prison System |
| 07.07.13 |
Thomas Friedman: You Give Clichés a Bad Name |
| 07.06.13 |
Not Even a Bourgeois Freedom: Freedom of Contract in John Roberts’s America |
| 07.06.13 |
An Interview with Cynthia Ozick |
| 07.05.13 |
When CUNY Hired Lillian Hellman |
| 07.05.13 |
Mayoral Candidate Bill de Blasio Calls on CUNY to Renegotiate Petraeus Deal |
| 07.05.13 |
Even Don Draper Went to CUNY |
| 07.04.13 |
Petraeusgate: Anatomy of a Scandal |
| 07.04.13 |
Bourgeois Freedoms |
| 07.03.13 |
It’s Official: CUNY Scandal Upgraded to “Petraeusgate” |
| 07.03.13 |
In a Hole, CUNY Digs Deeper |
| 07.02.13 |
NYS Assemblyman (and Iraq War Vet) Blasts CUNY Over Petraeus: Says Administrators Are Lying |
| 07.02.13 |
Talking about Nietzsche and the Austrians |
| 07.01.13 |
Pay us like you pay Petraeus |
| 06.26.13 |
If Reagan Were Pinochet…Sigh |
| 06.25.13 |
The Hayek-Pinochet Connection: A Second Reply to My Critics |
| 06.24.13 |
Nietzsche, Hayek, and the Austrians: A Reply to My Critics |
| 06.18.13 |
Edward Snowden’s Retail Psychoanalysts in the Media |
| 06.17.13 |
Rights of Labor v. Tyranny of Capital |
| 06.14.13 |
Bob Fitch on Left v. Right |
| 06.14.13 |
Think you have nothing to hide from surveillance? Think again. |
| 06.13.13 |
Theory and Practice at NYU |
| 06.11.13 |
David Brooks: The Last Stalinist |
| 06.10.13 |
Snitches and Whistleblowers: Who would you rather be? |
| 06.06.13 |
Jumaane Williams and the Brooklyn College BDS Controversy Revisited |
| 06.03.13 |
Panel discussion tonight: Hayek’s Triumph, Nietzsche’s Example, the Market’s Morals |
| 05.27.13 |
Arbeit Macht Frei |
| 05.20.13 |
Obama at Morehouse, LBJ at Howard |
| 05.16.13 |
Everything you know about the movement against the Vietnam War is wrong |
| 05.13.13 |
Critics respond to “Nietzsche’s Marginal Children” |
| 05.10.13 |
Ronald Reagan: Ríos Montt is “totally dedicated to democracy” |
| 05.09.13 |
The Leopold and Loeb of Modern Libertarianism |
| 05.07.13 |
Brooklyn BDS Saga Continues: NYC Councilman Lewis Fidler Demands Poli Sci Hire Pro-Israel Faculty |
| 05.05.13 |
The False Attribution: Our Democratic Poetry |
| 05.05.13 |
In the new issue of Jacobin… |
| 05.04.13 |
Edmund Burke to Niall Ferguson: You know nothing of my work. You mean my whole theory is wrong. How you ever got to teach a course in anything is totally amazing. |
| 05.02.13 |
What the F*ck is Katie Roiphe Talking About? |
| 05.02.13 |
Petraeus may not be quite all in at CUNY |
| 04.29.13 |
Look Who’s Teaching at CUNY! |
| 04.29.13 |
Petraeus is Coming to CUNY. Just “like the invasion of Iraq.” |
| 04.25.13 |
Would It Not Be Easier for Matt Yglesias to Dissolve the Bangladeshi People and Elect Another? |
| 04.25.13 |
Among Friends |
| 04.23.13 |
How Two Can Make One: Nietzsche on Truth, Mises on Value, and Arendt on Judgment |
| 04.21.13 |
God Bless Benno Schmidt |
| 04.19.13 |
The Idle Rich and the Working Stiff: Nietzche von Hayek on Capital v. Labor |
| 04.17.13 |
Nietzsche von Hayek on Merit |
| 04.17.13 |
From the Annals of Imperial Assymetry: Greg Grandin on the Venezuelan Election |
| 04.17.13 |
The Price of Labor: Burke, Nietzsche, and Menger |
| 04.15.13 |
One Newspaper, Two Elections: The New York Times on America 2004, Venezuela 2013 |
| 04.10.13 |
Nietzsche and the Marginals, again |
| 04.09.13 |
Shulamith Firestone and the Private Life of Power |
| 04.08.13 |
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mr. Jon Lee Anderson |
| 04.08.13 |
The Lady’s Not for Turning |
| 04.02.13 |
Market Morals: Nietzsche on the Media, Adam Smith and the Blacklist |
| 03.30.13 |
Anne Frank’s Diary Should Have Been Burned |
| 03.30.13 |
Mr. Mailer, when you dip your balls in ink, what color ink is it? |
| 03.28.13 |
The Libertarian Map of Freedom |
| 03.28.13 |
Why Noam Chomsky Can Sound like a Broken Record |
| 03.27.13 |
Black Panthers v. Reactionary Minds |
| 03.25.13 |
Why Did Liberals Support the Iraq War? |
| 03.20.13 |
Ezra Klein’s Biggest Mistake |
| 03.20.13 |
Edmund Burke on the Free Market |
| 03.17.13 |
George W. Bush did not always lie about Iraq |
| 03.17.13 |
On the anniversaries of My Lai and Iraq, we say “for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, America reigns without a rival.” |
| 03.16.13 |
Educate a Straussian: Support the Workers at Pomona College |
| 03.14.13 |
I am not a racist. I just hate democracy. |
| 03.12.13 |
The US Senate: Where Democracy Goes to Die |
| 03.11.13 |
Wendy Kopp, Princeton Tory |
| 03.10.13 |
The Smartest Guy in the Room |
| 03.07.13 |
Guess How Much I Love You |
| 03.05.13 |
I Debate a Reagan Administration Official about Freedom and the Workplace |
| 03.04.13 |
The Wizard of Oz |
| 03.03.13 |
Israel v. Palestine, Plessy v. Ferguson |
| 03.02.13 |
Lucille Dickess (1934-2013): American Radical |
| 02.27.13 |
What do Glenn Greenwald, Alan Dershowitz, and the Israeli UN Ambassador have in common? |
| 02.23.13 |
“Corey Robin, if he’s watching this, is losing his mind.” |
| 02.19.13 |
New Information on that False Shout of Fire in a Theater |
| 02.17.13 |
Falsely Shouting Fire in a Theater: How a Forgotten Labor Struggle Became a National Obsession and Emblem of Our Constitutional Faith |
| 02.12.13 |
Israeli Ambassador: I Balance Myself |
| 02.08.13 |
Who Really Supports Hate Speech at Brooklyn College? |
| 02.08.13 |
Tonight at Brooklyn College |
| 02.06.13 |
They All Fall Down: “Progressives” Back off From Their Demands to Poli Sci |
| 02.06.13 |
Bloomberg to City Council: Back the F*ck Off! |
| 02.05.13 |
A Sinking Ship? 2 politicians jump, there may be a 3rd. |
| 02.05.13 |
The CUNY Talks and Panels Christine Quinn Supported When She Wasn’t Running for Mayor |
| 02.05.13 |
One politician doubles down, one politician backs down, and one student stands up |
| 02.04.13 |
The Tide Turns: Letitia James Backs Off From Threats to CUNY |
| 02.04.13 |
Where Does Mayor Bloomberg Stand on Academic Freedom? |
| 02.03.13 |
The Question of Palestine at Brooklyn College, Then and Now |
| 02.03.13 |
NYC Council Threatens to Withdraw $ if Poli Sci Doesn’t Withdraw Cosponsorship |
| 02.02.13 |
Keith Gessen, Joan Scott, and others weigh in on Brooklyn College controversy |
| 01.21.13 |
The White Moderate: The Greatest Threat to Freedom |
| 01.15.13 |
The State Should Not Pardon Aaron Swartz |
| 01.02.13 |
The fiscal cliff is just Act 2 of a 3-Act Play |
| 12.27.12 |
Highlights from Jacobin |
| 12.26.12 |
My Top 5 Posts of the Year (and a little extra) |
| 12.22.12 |
Rimbaud Conservatism |
| 12.19.12 |
Statement of Support for Erik Loomis |
| 12.17.12 |
Taxes, and Cuts, and Drones: Obama’s Imperialism of the Peasants |
| 12.14.12 |
The Four Most Beautiful Words in the English Language: I Told You So |
| 12.12.12 |
An Open Letter to Glenn Greenwald |
| 12.06.12 |
New York Times: It’s Not Like Bradley Manning is O.J. Simpson or Something |
| 12.04.12 |
A Question for A.O. Scott and Ta-Nehisi Coates |
| 12.02.12 |
Jefferson’s Race Obsession is a Response to Emancipation, not Slavery |
| 12.01.12 |
Thomas Jefferson: American Fascist? |
| 11.30.12 |
Brian Leiter on Nietzsche and Ressentiment |
| 11.30.12 |
Dwight Garner: Meet George Orwell |
| 11.29.12 |
When Katie Roiphe and Dwight Garner keep me up at night |
| 11.28.12 |
When It Comes to Lincoln, We’re Still Virgins |
| 11.26.12 |
There are no libertarians on flagpoles. |
| 11.25.12 |
Steven Spielberg’s White Men of Democracy |
| 11.20.12 |
Conservatives: Who’s Your Daddy? |
| 11.18.12 |
Barack Obama, Ironist of American History |
| 11.17.12 |
Nietzsche, the Jews, and other obsessions |
| 11.14.12 |
Doris, we’re in (with Paul Krugman)! |
| 11.09.12 |
AIDS in the Age of Reagan |
| 11.09.12 |
Will Obama not only take us over the fiscal cliff but also keep us there? |
| 11.08.12 |
Bertolt Brecht Comes to CUNY |
| 11.07.12 |
Testing the Melissa Harris-Perry Thesis |
| 11.07.12 |
An Army of Rape Philosophers |
| 11.07.12 |
Conservatism is Dead…Because It Lives |
| 11.05.12 |
I’m a libertarian. Which is why I’m voting for Mitt Romney. |
| 11.03.12 |
The Fine Print: Produce Urine in a Timely Fashion or We’ll Charge You |
| 11.02.12 |
Held With Bail |
| 10.31.12 |
All that good, expensive gas wasted on the Jews! |
| 10.27.12 |
Suffer the Children |
| 10.26.12 |
American Feudalism: It’s Not Just a Metaphor |
| 10.25.12 |
My Media Empire Expands |
| 10.25.12 |
Dictatorships and Double Standards |
| 10.23.12 |
In Hollywood Hotel, Maids are Watched by a Dog Named Rex |
| 10.23.12 |
Kai Ryssdal, Call Me! |
| 10.22.12 |
I Speak Out for Athletes Everywhere |
| 10.21.12 |
Things Obama Says When Famous People Die |
| 10.21.12 |
The Army as a Concentration Camp |
| 10.20.12 |
How Could Mere Toil Align Thy Choiring Strings? A Breviary of Worker Intimidation |
| 10.18.12 |
Forced to Choose: Capitalism as Existentialism |
| 10.17.12 |
Age of Counterrevolution |
| 10.15.12 |
The Kochs’ Libertarian Hypocrisy: It’s Worse Than You Think |
| 10.15.12 |
The Koch Brothers Read Hayek |
| 10.13.12 |
Libertarianism in Honduras |
| 10.04.12 |
I Have the Most Awesome Students in the World. And You Can Help Them. |
| 10.02.12 |
I am so loving that lesser evil! |
| 10.01.12 |
Getting on Board |
| 09.24.12 |
Matt Yglesias’s China Syndrome |
| 09.18.12 |
Hurting the Kids |
| 09.18.12 |
NPR Says Karen Lewis is Too….Something to Speak for Teachers |
| 09.12.12 |
Why Do People Hate Teachers Unions? Because They Hate Teachers. |
| 09.11.12 |
Every Time Terry Moran Speaks, a Butterfly Flaps Its Wings and a Chicago Teacher Makes 1/2 Her Salary |
| 09.10.12 |
Terry Moran: How much fucking money do you make a year? |
| 09.07.12 |
Might We Not Want a GOP Congress Come November? |
| 09.06.12 |
NYPD in Israel: Hannah Arendt on the Best Police Department in the World |
| 09.05.12 |
Will Work for Free: The Democratic Mantra |
| 08.31.12 |
Not Your Father’s Labor Movement |
| 08.30.12 |
We’re Going To Tax Their Ass Off! |
| 08.30.12 |
Never Can Say Goodbye |
| 08.28.12 |
Coal Miners Forced to Attend Romney Rally: “Attendance at the event was mandatory, but no one was forced to attend.” |
| 08.26.12 |
My appearance on Up With Chris Hayes |
| 08.24.12 |
I’m going to be on TV |
| 08.23.12 |
Montana: State of Exception |
| 08.21.12 |
Don’t Let the Workers Drive the Bus! |
| 08.16.12 |
AT&T: What Part of “Lunch Break” Do You Not Understand? |
| 08.15.12 |
Crackdown on Occupy Probably Not Organized by the Obama Administration |
| 08.14.12 |
The Vulgarity of Sylvia Nasar’s Beautiful Mind |
| 08.11.12 |
Ryan, and Mises, and Rand! Oh, my! |
| 08.08.12 |
If you’re a customer, you get to make noise; if you’re a worker, you don’t. |
| 08.06.12 |
9 Ways to Get Yourself Fired |
| 08.06.12 |
If Only We Knew How to Decrease Unemployment… |
| 08.03.12 |
Who’s the Greater Threat to Freedom? Chicago or Chick-fil-A? |
| 08.03.12 |
I Respect Michele Bachmann |
| 07.31.12 |
Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries |
| 07.30.12 |
Águas de Março |
| 07.30.12 |
The Drone: Joseph de Maistre’s Executioner |
| 07.27.12 |
Lunch Break Utopia (Cont.) |
| 07.26.12 |
A Caribbean-born Gay Jew Leading the US Confederacy? |
| 07.24.12 |
Liberalism Agonistes |
| 07.23.12 |
More on Alexander Cockburn |
| 07.21.12 |
Alexander Cockburn, 1941-2012 |
| 07.20.12 |
Eli’s Comin’—Hide Your Heart, Girl: Why Yale is Going to Singapore |
| 07.19.12 |
Desperate Housewives |
| 07.18.12 |
When Hayek Met Pinochet |
| 07.17.12 |
Viña del Mar: A Veritable International of the Free-Market Counterrevolution |
| 07.17.12 |
The Road to Viña del Mar |
| 07.16.12 |
When lunch breaks disappear, where do they go? |
| 07.13.12 |
Wow, Tyler Cowen, How Much Paper Do They Steal at GMU? And Other Responses to the Libertarians |
| 07.11.12 |
Kissinger: Allende More Dangerous Than Castro |
| 07.11.12 |
Friedrich Del Mar*: More on Hayek, Pinochet, and Chile |
| 07.09.12 |
But wait, there’s more: Hayek von Pinochet, Part 2 |
| 07.08.12 |
Hayek von Pinochet |
| 07.07.12 |
When Utopia Becomes a Lunch Break |
| 07.07.12 |
Thank You For Smoking |
| 07.06.12 |
Mini-Wars |
| 07.04.12 |
Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Endless Arguments about It on the Internet |
| 07.03.12 |
Gordon Lafer Weighs in on Wisconsin, again |
| 07.01.12 |
Libertarianism’s Cold, Cold Heart |
| 06.29.12 |
Nino! Now Playing at the Schubert Theater |
| 06.28.12 |
Affirmative Action Baby |
| 06.27.12 |
Adolph Reed Speaks Truth on Wisconsin |
| 06.27.12 |
Justice Scalia: American Nietzsche |
| 06.26.12 |
Diva of Disdain: Justice Scalia in Three Parts |
| 06.22.12 |
Labor was once central to the liberal imagination; today, not so much. |
| 06.20.12 |
What Might Have Been: One Report from Madison, Wisconsin |
| 06.15.12 |
Whither Wisconsin: A Guide to the Perplexed (Left) |
| 06.08.12 |
A Solidarity of Strangers |
| 06.08.12 |
The Militant Minority: Untimely Meditations from David Montgomery |
| 06.07.12 |
A Challenge to the Left |
| 06.07.12 |
Wisconsin: WTF? A Facebook Roundtable on Labor, the Democrats, and Why Everything Sucks |
| 06.04.12 |
I See London, I See France… |
| 06.02.12 |
Was Mohamed Atta Gay? |
| 06.01.12 |
Careerism: Prolegomena to a Political Theory |
| 05.28.12 |
Things I Did and Didn’t Know About Marilyn Monroe and Leon Trotsky |
| 05.27.12 |
Law and Order Among the 1% |
| 05.05.12 |
In the 4th Year of the Obama Administration, the Health and Safety of American Workers Remains “Open” |
| 04.25.12 |
Obama Awards Billions in Government Contracts to Labor Law Violators |
| 04.25.12 |
The American Creed: You give us a color, we’ll wipe it out. |
| 04.24.12 |
Ex-Cons Make the Best Workers! |
| 04.23.12 |
Boss to Worker: Thanks for Your Kidney. And, Oh, You’re Fired! |
| 04.23.12 |
Fighting Them There Rather than Here: From Hitler to Bush |
| 04.22.12 |
Protocols of Machismo, Part 2: On the Hidden Connection Between Henry Kissinger and Liza Minnelli |
| 04.22.12 |
Protocols of Machismo: On the Fetish of National Security, Part I |
| 04.20.12 |
In Which I Pour More Fuel on the Cory Booker Fire |
| 04.20.12 |
Stephen Colbert Agrees with Me about Cory Booker |
| 04.19.12 |
What Katha Said |
| 04.14.12 |
The Thunder of World History |
| 04.13.12 |
The Freedom, the Freedom! |
| 04.13.12 |
In Which I Rain on Everyone’s Cory Booker Parade |
| 04.09.12 |
Ending Dependency As We Know It: How Bill Clinton Decreased Freedom |
| 04.08.12 |
The Wide World of Sports |
| 04.04.12 |
Fancy Dress at Fancy Law Firms? You’re Fired! |
| 04.02.12 |
Twin Peaks: The Tea Party’s Economic and Social Agenda |
| 03.31.12 |
More Facebook Fascism |
| 03.30.12 |
News of the Book |
| 03.26.12 |
My Bloggingheads Debut! |
| 03.24.12 |
What Happens to a Bathroom Break Deferred? |
| 03.24.12 |
Reactionary Mindz |
| 03.21.12 |
Sluts! |
| 03.20.12 |
The Private Life of Power |
| 03.19.12 |
Is That All There Is? |
| 03.18.12 |
All Children Under 16 Years Old Are Now 16 Years Old: Workplace Tyranny at the Gates Foundation |
| 03.16.12 |
Rick Perlstein Schools Mark Lilla |
| 03.14.12 |
Birth Control McCarthyism |
| 03.11.12 |
The Prison House of Labor |
| 03.08.12 |
For anyone who’s ever despaired of arguing with her critics… |
| 03.08.12 |
Lavatory and Liberty: The Secret History of the Bathroom Break |
| 03.07.12 |
When Libertarians Go to Work… |
| 03.04.12 |
Black Money: On Marxism and Corruption |
| 03.03.12 |
Isn’t It Romantic? Burke, Maistre, and Conservatism |
| 03.01.12 |
Just My Imagination |
| 02.29.12 |
Julie London, Political Theorist |
| 02.25.12 |
Even Narcissists Have Enemies |
| 02.25.12 |
Freedom Is, Freedom Ain’t* |
| 02.20.12 |
Probing Tyler Cowen, or: When Libertarians Get Medieval on Your Vagina |
| 02.15.12 |
Love for Sale: Birth Control from Marx to Mises |
| 02.06.12 |
Graduate Student Employee Fired for Union Activism |
| 02.05.12 |
Mark Lilla and I Exchange Words |
| 02.01.12 |
The New York Times Takes Up The Reactionary Mind…Again |
| 02.01.12 |
I’m a Jacobin |
| 01.31.12 |
A Most Delightful Fuck You |
| 01.27.12 |
Anti-Semite and Jew |
| 01.21.12 |
Gossip Folks |
| 01.20.12 |
Something’s Got a Hold On Me |
| 01.19.12 |
From the Slaveholders to Rick Perry: Galileo is the Key |
| 01.19.12 |
Easy To Be Hard: Conservatism and Violence |
| 01.16.12 |
The Real Martin Luther King |
| 01.10.12 |
John Schaar, 1928-2011 |
| 01.08.12 |
You’re the Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me |
| 01.08.12 |
Words Like Freedom |
| 01.05.12 |
Another prize! And other news of the blog and the book |
| 01.04.12 |
Houston, We Have a Problem. A Jacob Heilbrunn Problem. |
| 01.04.12 |
A Trotsky for Our Time |
| 01.03.12 |
Ron Paul has two problems: one is his, the other is ours. |
| 01.03.12 |
Still Batshit Crazy After All These Years: A Reply to Ta-Nehisi Coates |
| 01.02.12 |
My Appearance on Up With Chris Hayes |
| 12.30.11 |
I’m going to be on TV |
| 12.26.11 |
Fight Club, or That’s the Year That Was |
| 12.20.11 |
Reactionary Minds |
| 12.19.11 |
My Blog Wins 3rd Prize |
| 12.18.11 |
“Yes, but”: More on Hitchens and Hagiography |
| 12.16.11 |
Christopher Hitchens: The Most Provincial Spirit of All |
| 12.04.11 |
It Was 20 Years Ago Today |
| 12.03.11 |
Ross Douthat Channels Georges Sorel |
| 12.03.11 |
My Response to Bruce Bartlett |
| 12.01.11 |
Reality Bites: Andrew Sullivan’s Utopian Conservatism |
| 11.27.11 |
The Occupy Crackdowns: Why Naomi Wolf Got It Wrong |
| 11.17.11 |
Shop Talk with John Podhoretz |
| 11.15.11 |
More News of the Book |
| 11.11.11 |
I’ll be on C-SPAN this weekend |
| 11.09.11 |
Whenever I read a professional Chomsky-basher… |
| 11.03.11 |
When the Right Hand Doesn’t Know What the Right Hand is Doing |
| 11.03.11 |
From the American Slaveholders to the Nazis… |
| 11.03.11 |
In Which I Talk to a Conservative about His Reactionary Mind |
| 11.01.11 |
Our Negroes and Theirs: When Ann Coulter Tells the Truth, It’s Worth Listening to Her |
| 10.26.11 |
News of the Book |
| 10.25.11 |
Fear, American Style: What the Anarchist and Libertarian Don’t Understand about the US |
| 10.17.11 |
To Play the Part of a Lord: A Reply to Andrew Sullivan about Conservatism |
| 10.15.11 |
A Last Word on My Exchange with Sheri Berman |
| 10.14.11 |
Where Is the Love? |
| 10.12.11 |
I Got a Crush on You |
| 10.11.11 |
It’s Good to Be the King |
| 10.07.11 |
The New York Times Review of The Reactionary Mind: My Response |
| 10.02.11 |
We’ll turn Manhattan into an isle of joy. |
| 10.01.11 |
Baubles, Bangles, and Tweets: Reactions to The Reactionary Mind |
| 09.27.11 |
Revolutionaries of the Right: The Deep Roots of Conservative Radicalism |
| 09.26.11 |
Melissa Harris-Perry’s Non-Response Response to Her Critics |
| 09.23.11 |
Melissa Harris-Perry: Psychologist to the Stars |
| 09.22.11 |
The Page 99 Test |
| 09.19.11 |
Shitstorming the Bastille |
| 09.18.11 |
If Everybody’s Working for the Weekend, How Come It Took This Country So Goddamn Long to Get One? |
| 09.13.11 |
The Mile-High Club: What the Right Really Thinks About Sex |
| 09.08.11 |
The Republican Debate: 5 Theses |
| 09.08.11 |
That Old Centrist Magic: Jonathan Stein Responds to Jonathan Chait |
| 09.04.11 |
The Politics of Fear is Dead. The Politics of Fear is alive and well. |
| 09.03.11 |
What’s so Liberal about Neoliberalism? An homage to my sister’s father-in-law* |
| 08.19.11 |
Why I’m Not Laughing with Jon Stewart |
| 08.18.11 |
My Own Munchings (that’s for you, Mom) |
| 08.16.11 |
One Less Bell to Answer: Further Thoughts on Neoliberalism By Way of Mike Konczal (and Burt Bachrach) |
| 08.15.11 |
Sam’s Club Republicanism Died Because It Never Had a Life to Live |
| 08.13.11 |
3 Reasons Why It Doesn’t Matter if Rick Perry is the New George W. Bush and 1 Reason Why It Does. |
| 08.09.11 |
Ten Years On, We’re Still Getting Nickel and Dimed (and Still Can’t Pee on the Job) |
| 08.07.11 |
The Economic Cure That Dare Not Speak Its Name |
| 08.01.11 |
Obama: WTF? A Facebook Roundtable of the Left |
| 07.30.11 |
The Great Neoliberalism Debate of 2011 Has Now Been Resolved ( I Think This is What They Call Beating a Dead Horse) |
| 07.28.11 |
America, Where Selling Out is the Right Thing to Do |
| 07.25.11 |
Making Love to Lana Turner on an Empty Stomach (and Other Things That Caught My Eye) |
| 07.24.11 |
Norwegian Terrorist Knows His Conservative Canon |
| 07.22.11 |
If You Don’t Have Anything Nice to Say, Come Sit Next to Me |
| 07.21.11 |
Why Aren’t There More Union Members in America? A Reply to Will Wilkinson |
| 07.19.11 |
Why the Left Gets Neoliberalism Wrong: It’s the Feudalism, Stupid! |
| 07.19.11 |
Ronald Reagan: Magic Man |
| 07.16.11 |
Doug Henwood: His Taste in Music is a Little Doctrinaire, but His Economics is Outta Sight |
| 07.16.11 |
The Way We Weren’t: My Response to Yglesias’ Response to My Response to His Response to My Response |
| 07.15.11 |
Mike Konczal Responds to Me and Yglesias (and Yglesias responds yet again) |
| 07.14.11 |
Matt Yglesias Responds to My Post |
| 07.13.11 |
Other People’s Money |
| 07.13.11 |
A Fistful of Crazy, Starring Jonathan Rauch, in Which Our Hero Argues that Primo Levi was an American Enemy |
| 07.12.11 |
QED |
| 07.12.11 |
Things You Get to Do When You’re a Great Writer |
| 07.09.11 |
The Financialization of Political Discourse (or more on David Frum) |
| 07.09.11 |
All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Freshman English. Or So Says the NYT. |
| 07.07.11 |
David Frum, Regular Pain in the GOP Ass, Writes the Most Honest Sentence In Journalism I’ve Seen |
| 07.06.11 |
I knew Abe Lincoln, Abe Lincoln was a friend of mine. Mr. President, you’re no Abe Lincoln. |
| 07.06.11 |
I Say a Little Prayer for You |
| 07.05.11 |
Persistence of the Old Regime |
| 07.04.11 |
In Which the NY Times Suddenly Decides It Respects Noam Chomsky |
| 07.04.11 |
A Princeton First |
| 07.03.11 |
When Conservatives Read Conservatives |
| 07.02.11 |
What We Don’t Get |
| 06.24.11 |
You Are Not Historians! |
| 06.23.11 |
Known Unknowns |
| 06.20.11 |
Tax and Spend |
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