As a penetrating history of the “Short Twentieth Century”—the period from the First World War (the traumatic end of the…
The Tricontinental Conference & Latin American Liberationist Christianity
I am presenting a working paper at the Toronto Christian Left Conference (July 23-24), whose theme is Rethinking the Christian…
Ideology, Fetishism, Apophaticism: Marxist Criticism and Christianity
I am very pleased to share my first article published in an academic journal, “Ideology, Fetishism, Apophaticism: Marxist Criticism and…
Subversive Bach
“Ruht wohl, ihr heiligen Gebeine” is the magisterial concluding chorus to Bach’s Johannes-Passion. Simultaneously comforting and disquieting, part lullaby and…
Beyond Jubilee: Debt Abolition
I reviewed another new book from Haymarket—Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay: The Case for Economic Disobedience and Debt Abolition—for The Bias…
Cardboard Darwinism & Double Transference
“Cardboard Darwinism,” writes biologist Stephen Jay Gould in an essay of the same name, “is a reductionist, one-way theory about…
Dialectical Ecology
“If we dig precious things from the land, we will invite disaster.” Thus reads one of the Hopi prophecies which…
On Sorting Books
Moving is never a pleasant experience, which is especially true amidst a pandemic and 100°-plus heat waves in Los Angeles.…
Two World Views of the Russian Revolution
The Russian Revolution: A View from the Third World (Verso, 2018) compiles a series of lectures given by Walter Rodney,…
Unmasking Mammon
I had the privilege of reviewing Hadas Thier’s new book, A People’s Guide to Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics…
