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It was wrong to impose the restrictions, but the elites responsible are incapable of admitting it

As a sociologist, close to half century of my life has been spent in the habit of mind that a well-known social critic C. Wright Mills called “the sociological imagination.” Mills was famous for making things simpler to the common readers but also...

New edition of landmark book on American power

It is rather easy to lament the state of our country right now. We are not wealthy. The US economy, despite the pandemic, has been doing reasonably well overall. However, income inequality is at its highest in 50 years. We are richer in the aggregate, but most of the gains have gone to upper-class f...

This special issue of Monthly Review, The Cuban Revolution Today: Experiments in the Grip of Challenges, carries forward a tradition established six decades ago.

We are grateful to present this special issue of Monthly Review, carrying forward a tradition established six decades ago. The stance of the magazine reflects…

The liberating power of irreverent “black comedy”: breaking false idols, mocking prevailing hypocrisies, and calling forth a massive revolt against mass delusion and folly–through laughter. It was, of course, in the Sixties, just when people were beginning to “raise their consciousness” — that various forms of spirited and subversive humor appeared on the scene. Things […]

From the blog of Tony D. Senatore at The Times of Israel

Today’s social movements are grappling once again with a central challenge for the New Left: how to remedy injustice while maintaining vitality and independence from the political system.

Radical Movements and Political Power from Boston Review. Today’s social movements are grappling once again with a central challenge for the New Left: how to remedy injustice while maintaining vitality and independence from the political system.