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This article will be released in full online April 10, 2023. Andy Higginbottom analyzes the influence of Ruy Mauro Marini on dependency theory and the concept…

This article will be released in full online April 3, 2023. Monthly Review editors remember the life of MR editorial board member John J. Simon (1934–2022)…

Laura Jacobs on George Balanchine’s “Vienna Waltzes.”

I used to work with a HAL 9000. Back when I was at US West in the late '90s we had a voice system into which we would record the day's company news so that employees without Internet access could dial in and keep up with the latest events. As with any such system there…

In the early modern period, just before the rise of the modern nation-state, there were hundreds of political units in Europe. Now there are comparatively few. Some observers project that at some point in the future there will be just a handful of empires running the world, but others think the opposite might happen: that the nation-state as a concept will fall into disuse, and that city-states hold the future of politics. In this article Michael Shermer explores these themes.

A transgender Tennessee mass shooter this week executed three adults and three nine-year-old children at a Nashville private Christian school.

It’s fair to say that most Christians are respectfully aware of the Talmud as something that exists somewhere out there, and they know that it has a

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AND YOU THOUGHT YOU KNEW HER: TUES, MARCH 28 // LECTURE ONE — "DEAR TONI: MORRISON EDITS A GENERATION OF BLACK MEN" WED, MARCH 29 // LECTURE TWO — "HERE STANDS A MAN: MORRISON'S (FEMINIST?) MOLDING OF BLACK MASCULINITY" THUR, MARCH 30 // LECTURE THREE — "ON THE FAR SIDE: GLOBALIZATION IN MORRISON'S WORLD" Held over three days March 28 – March 30th, the Toni Morrison Lectures are held bi-annually and spotlight the new and exciting work of scholars a...

AND YOU THOUGHT YOU KNEW HER: TUES, MARCH 28 // LECTURE ONE — "DEAR TONI: MORRISON EDITS A GENERATION OF BLACK MEN" WED, MARCH 29 // LECTURE TWO — "HERE STANDS A MAN:  MORRISON'S (FEMINIST?) MOLDING OF BLACK MASCULINITY" THUR, MARCH 30 // LECTURE THREE — "ON THE FAR SIDE: GLOBALIZATION IN MORRISON'S WORLD" Held over three days March 28 – March 30th, the Toni Morrison Lectures are held bi-annually and spotlight the new and exciting work of scholars...