The Indypendent
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A More Complex Portrait of Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement
In A History More Beautiful and Terrible: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History, Brooklyn College political scientist…
In his poem, “What Work Is,” Philip Levine, the great poet of the American working class, wrote about time…
A standard version of the history of the Sixties and Seventies emphasizes the eclipse of class struggle by “new…
Ursula Le Guin: A Creator of Worlds
With her ability to conjure up whole new worlds that challenge how we see our own and to inhabit…
Review: ‘Alt-Right: The Rise of the Radical Right in the Age of Trump’
By David Neiwert
Verso, 2017
Reviewed:
‘The Hamlet Fire: A Tragic Story of Cheap Food, Cheap Government and Cheap Lives’
By Bryant Simon
New Press, 2017
Reviewed:
‘Extreme Cities: The Peril and Promise of Urban Life in the Age of Climate Change’
By Ashley Dawson
Verso, 2017
Reviewed:
‘Adults in the Room: My Battle with the European and American Deep Establishment’
By Yanis Varoufakis
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017
‘And The Weak Suffer What They Must?’
By Yanis Varoufakis
Nation Books, 2016