There's a new organization in Washington: R Street is an independent, non-partisan, non-profit organization. It believes that freedom and free markets work better than the alternatives. R Street can fairly be described as “free market” or “libertarian.” Insofar as R Street looks to thinkers like...
radicalism
Yesterday was Trotsky Icepick Day and to commemorate it, The New Republic reprinted Edmund Wilson's 1933 article on him. Good stuff. It also helped me understand why Trotsky would agree.
Say what you will about Jacques Vergès, but everyone deserves the best defense possible, even if it is Klaus Barbie or your long-time friend Pol Pot. If you've never seen.
On June 16, 1918, the socialist leader and former head of the American Railway Union Eugene Debs gave a speech in Canton, Ohio, criticizing the United States' actions in World War I and urging resistance to the draft. Two weeks later, Debs was arrested under...