Everyday we survey the new nonfiction book website looking for titles written from a left perspective. These are collected in our ‘Today’s New Books’ posts. We then went back through our posts from January looking for particularly interesting sounding titles. We have not of course had time to read them all of them. But the [...]
Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City by Peter D. Norton (Powells) Understanding Knowledge as a Commons: From Theory to Practice ed. Charlotte Hess and Elinor Ostrom (Powells) Conservation Refugees: The Hundred Year Conflict Between Global Conservation and Native Peoples by Mark Dowle (Powells) Cold War Kitchen: Americanization, Technology, and [...]
We may be witnessing an Arab 1848. “The Tsar-Emperor today is the President in the White House.” (Counterpunch) It’s probably not an Egyptian version of Iran in 1979. Juan Cole breaks it down for you. (Informed Comment) Anyone know the #date for the United States? Hash tag date protests all over the Middle East and [...]
Tax cuts for the rich have intensified as support for taxing the rich has increased. And other useful information in Winner-Take-All Politics. (I Cite) Radical activists helped create Twitter. At least ” they brought the ideas, the ideas of sort of these decentralized communications, to the folks who were setting up this larger company.” (Democracy [...]
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