Book-Marx #9
It’s getting warmer, Osama bin Laden is dead, bankers are creeps, and we’ve finally found time to update our blog.
- Canada holds elections. But will NDP success move the country to the right?
- The “most profound essayist wielding a pen” examines Lula’s Brazil.
- The bourgeois press discovers Doug Henwood.
- Mike Macnair appraises Platypus.
- Mark Engler hearts Roseanne Barr.
- Bernard-Henri Levy feels the same way about charming, seductive rapists.
- Charming and seductive lover of third-person self-referencing, Bhaskar Sunkara, writes in Dissent about Osama’s death and Pakistani politics.
- Our advertisement in Brooklyn Rail has been unnerving some liberals.
- A musical reply to said liberals.
- Cornel West is pissed. And so is Tavis Smiley. They might’ve went along with imperial war abroad and class war at home for some damn inauguration tickets.
- Melissa Harris-Perry defends “our president” and lambasts “the self-appointed black leadership class.” In other news, irony is dead.
- Blast from the past: Forget the past. There won’t be a future if you don’t click on this link and/or get us in touch with George Soros.
