This is the grave of Eugene Dennis. Francis Waldron was born in 1904 in Seattle (some say 1905), he seems to have grown up poor. He became a worker as a very young man, became involved with the IWW an
tl;dr: The New Yorker ran a piece by Corey Robin that elaborated a rather idiosyncratic reading of Max Weber, one of the canonical thinkers of western social science. So I asked my friend and frequent
Whether Democratic Socialists of America’s decision not to endorse a presidential candidate is important enough to merit a New York Times op-ed is an open question. I’d probably say not. I
I really appreciated this Politico interview with Sean McElwee on how the left needs to be thinking about electoral politics. McElwee, who co-founded Data for Progress, came into the spotlight in 2017
I’ve been reading Max Elbaum’s 2002 book Revolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals Turn to Lenin, Mao and Che. It’s a deep insider account of the internal dynamics of sixties radicals
This is the grave of Meridel Le Sueur. Born in 1900 in Murray, Iowa, she grew up in a reformist family. Her family was involved in temperance, Populism, labor rights, the IWW, and other political move
I have a piece at Foreign Affairs that should be out soon. It’s an elaboration of what I see as the key principles of progressive foreign policy. I’ll post about those later. For now, I w
Jacobin’s quality control has never been its strength and combined with the impossible to kill dogma among certain leftists that so-called “identity politics” are a black hole that c