Tuesday, June 16, 2026

Mind Control, Online

From Facebook to Talking Points Memo to the New York Times, often what looks like fact-based journalism is not. It’s advertising. Not only are...

King Of The World

When Cassius Clay burst onto the sports scene in the 1950s, he broke the mould. He changed the world of sports and went on...

Too Wide A Gulf

Below is an excerpt of the introductory essay from The Gulf: High Culture/Hard Labor, edited by Andrew Ross (for Gulf Labor) (OR Books, 2015)....

The Second Coming Of The Hellhounds!

When Jordan granted amnesty to a group of political prisoners in 1999, it little realized that among them was Abu Musab al- Zarqawi, a...

The Final Solution

Final Solution by noted historian David Cesarani is an intelligent and thoughtprovoking short history of the Holocaust. Not only does David Cesarani draw together...

Minority Report

They Know Everything About You is a groundbreaking exposé of how government agencies and tech corporations monitor virtually every aspect of our lives, and...

The World According To Islamic State

Islamic State will endure as long as the factors and circumstances that have fueled its rise remain in place in Iraq and Syria and...

Dialogue with Youngsters

Master storyteller and satirist Kurt Vonnegut was one of the most indemand commencement speakers of his time. For each occasion, Vonnegut’s words were unfailingly...

Big Brother: Alive and Kicking Hard

In a completely original analysis, prize-winning historian Alfred W. McCoy explores America’s rise as a world power—from the 1890s through the Cold War—and its...

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