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Obama wins over the ‘decent left’
When candidate Obama selected Samantha Power to be his foreign policy adviser, this was a clear signal that he endorsed the idea of liberal imperialist intervention that she embodied. In contrast to...
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The Liberal Defence of Murder
Richard Seymour’s The Liberal Defence Of Murder by Louis Proyect Book Review Seymour, Richard: The Liberal Defence of Murder, Verso Press, 2008, ISBN-13: 978-1-84467-240-0, 358 pages. (Swans –...
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George Packer-Mark Danner pissing contest
George Packer Mark Danner Before getting into the details of this feud between two very unsavory characters taking place in the Sunday NY Times Book Review, it would be useful to put that section of...
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Michael Berube’s war on the left
Michael Berube Skimming through Michael Berube’s newly published Eustonesque manifesto “The Left at War“, I stumbled across a reference to yours truly in chapter one. The good professor grouped me with...
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Guest post on Haiti
Mark Danner John Halle Mark Danner’s Choice By John Halle (John Halle is a music professor at Bard College and the only leftist teaching there, now that Joel Kovel is gone. Mark Danner is a faculty...
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Q: What is a Platypus? A: an American Eustonite
Chris Cutrone: Platypus éminence grise Originally I had no idea that Platypus was some kind of organized group on the left. I regarded it as an electronic magazine after the fashion of Metamute,...
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Fred Halliday
Fred Halliday, who has died of cancer aged 64, was an Irish academic whose main interest was the Middle East and its place in international politics. His first major book, Arabia Without Sultans, was...
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The Paul Berman-Ian Buruma feud
Paul Berman Ian Buruma Today’s NY Times has a review of The Flight of the Intellectuals, Paul Berman’s latest Islamophobic tirade: Paul Berman’s new book, “The Flight of the Intellectuals,” plural,...
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Tony Judt: an appreciation
(Swans – August 9, 2010) Tony Judt, a courageous and principled social democratic intellectual, died on August 6th after a two year struggle with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou...
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David Gibbs replies to Marko Attila Hoare
David N. Gibbs Replies to Marko Atilla Hoare This posting is a follow-up on an extended debate that I have been having with Marko Atilla Hoare, on the breakup of Yugoslavia during the 1990s. For those...
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Harper’s and the Great Cancel Culture Panic
COUNTERPUNCH, JULY 10, 2020 Cary Nelson, who signed Harper’s letter against cancel culture, also canceled Steven Salaita You can imagine my chagrin when I discovered that Harper’s, a magazine that I...
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