Book Review

Book Review, Climate, Environment, Technology

Book Review: Charles Windsor, Harmony

The Prince of Wales [Charles Windsor], Harmony: A New Way of Looking at the World.With Tony Juniper and Ian Skelly. HarperCollins Publishers Inc., 2010 This book is about climate ...

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Book Review, healthcare, History, Sport, War

Football and War

In the United States the game called either football or soccer in the rest of the world is always called soccer. American football is very different. In ...

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Book Review, Economics, healthcare

What Are Hospitals For?

Source: Timothy Snyder, Our Malady: Lessons in Liberty from a Hospital Diary (New York: Crown, 2020) This is a hospital. What are hospitals for? Perhaps you think that they ...

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Book Review, War

Ukraine: Nationalists at War

Radical nationalists, including fascists and Nazis, play a significant role in the war in Ukraine and an even more significant role in the propaganda war. Putin justifies his attack on Ukraine as a crusade to ‘de-Nazify’ the country, while some pro-Ukrainian propagandists describe the Putin regime as fascist.

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Book Review, Capitalism, Economics, Politics, Technology, Work

Automation: An Open Letter to Andrew Yang

Dear Andrew Yang I followed with interest your campaign as a candidate in the Democratic Party’s 2020 presidential primaries. You are widely known for advocating Universal Basic ...

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Book Review, healthcare

Gambling Till You Drop

Natasha Dow Schull, Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas (Princeton University Press, 2012). This is a book about gambling machines. Gambling machines are everywhere. They occupy most ...

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Book Review, Class, History, Socialism

Classless Cities

Marx and Engels thought that some time before the dawn of recorded history there took place several closely interrelated transitions that transformed human life – from wandering ...

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Book Review

World Socialist No. 3 (Spring 2021)

The third issue of The World Socialist is out now! It feature’s an article on COVID-19’s lab-leak hypothesis, an elaboration on Clause One of our Declaration of ...

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Book Review, Class, police, Politics

Unequal Before the Law

The political and corporate elite are now free to commit crimes with impunity. Their immunity contrasts with the harsh punishment of even minor crimes committed by ordinary people.

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Book Review, media

Imagine: A Great New Issue From Canada!

Announcing an exciting new issue of Imagine, quarterly journal of our comrades in the Socialist Party of Canada!

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