We Don’t Need Heidegger’s Notebooks to Know That He Was a Despicable Anti-Semite We Don’t Need Heidegger’s Notebooks to Know That He Was a Despicable Anti-Semite
Their recent publication tells us nothing we didn’t already know, or could easily have inferred, from his biography.
Apr 1, 2014 / Norman Birnbaum
Why the Media Are Giving a Free Pass to Venezuela’s Neo-Fascist Creeps Why the Media Are Giving a Free Pass to Venezuela’s Neo-Fascist Creeps
Roberto Lovato interviews intellectual heavyweight Luis García Britto about the role of the media in the current conflict in Venezuela.
Apr 1, 2014 / Roberto Lovato
Not the Cesar Chavez I Knew Not the Cesar Chavez I Knew
A new film about the labor leader reduces him to a caricature and ignores his true strengths as an organizer.
Apr 1, 2014 / Books & the Arts / Marshall Ganz
On Universal Pre-K, de Blasio Shows Democrats How to Lead From the Left On Universal Pre-K, de Blasio Shows Democrats How to Lead From the Left
Despite well-funded opposition, New York’s mayor was able to deliver on the biggest commitment of last year’s campaign.
Apr 1, 2014 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Deval Patrick, These Student Climate Activists Are Your Political Future Deval Patrick, These Student Climate Activists Are Your Political Future
Student climate activists in Massachusetts win a meeting with Governor Deval Patrick about banning new fossil-fuel infrastructure. But they need more than a meeting.
Apr 1, 2014 / Wen Stephenson
Cold War Again: Who’s Responsible? Cold War Again: Who’s Responsible?
In the name of ‘democracy,’ the West has unrelentingly moved its military, political and economic power ever closer to post-Soviet Russia.
Apr 1, 2014 / Stephen F. Cohen
The Function of Black Rage The Function of Black Rage
Our impatience and rage is what has produced progress. That we are still impatient and angry reflects not black people’s failing but how far America still has to go.
Apr 1, 2014 / Mychal Denzel Smith
On Racism and Sexism, Don’t Let Progress Be the Enemy of More Progress On Racism and Sexism, Don’t Let Progress Be the Enemy of More Progress
Ta-Nehisi Coates's detractors are too quick to declare him overly pessimistic about how white supremacy still shapes our society.
Apr 1, 2014 / Bryce Covert
Q&A with Ryan Branagan of Northeastern’s Students for Justice in Palestine Q&A with Ryan Branagan of Northeastern’s Students for Justice in Palestine
Northeastern University's decision to suspend Northeastern's SJP provoked a response that spread outside the university's borders.
Apr 1, 2014 / StudentNation / Keegan O’Brien and StudentNation
Good News! Janet Yellen Speaks English, Not Fedspeak Good News! Janet Yellen Speaks English, Not Fedspeak
The new Fed chair came out in strong support of working families and the unemployed in her foundational speech this week.
Apr 1, 2014 / William Greider