Wednesday, June 8, 2022

Impassable

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  “Breaking the Impasse – Electoral Politics, Mass Action and the New Socialist Movement in the United States,” by Kim Moody, 2022 This is...
Saturday, June 4, 2022

Sexual Economics Theory

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  “Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism,” by Kristen R. Ghodsee, 2021 That title got your attention.   This book is based on an edito...
Wednesday, June 1, 2022

Old Order Actually

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  “New Order / Nuevo Orden"  a film by Michel Franco, 2020 This work of speculative fiction is about an upper-class wedding in Mexico...
Saturday, May 28, 2022

Re-Fashioned Failure

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 “ F ashionopolis – the Price of Fast Fashion and the Future of Clothes” by Dana Thomas, 2019 This book includes a short history of the clo...
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Tuesday, May 24, 2022

The Village of Leopards

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  “How Beautiful We Were” by Imbolo Mbue, 2022 This is the fictional story of an African village standing up to a Western oil company, Pex...
Saturday, May 21, 2022

Lawyers, lawyers everywhere ...

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  “The Lincoln Lawyer” Meets “Goliath” Streaming culture is beginning to congeal, as the drop in Netflix customers reflects.   Amazon an...
Wednesday, May 18, 2022

A Post-Technology World?

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  “Scorched Earth – Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World” by Jonathan Crary, 2022 This is a train-full of quotes about the no...
Saturday, May 14, 2022

Post-Crow

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  The South – Jim Crow and Its Afterlives” by Adolph L. Reed, Jr., 2022 This is a genial remembrance of a youth spent in Jim Crow New Orlea...