• The Christ of Nikos Kazantzakis

    Nikos Kazantzakis’ towering literary output reflects a lifelong effort to articulate both spiritual and political radicalisms—embodied in the figure of Christ.

  • Acting Like an Ancestor

    Combating the racial and ecological damage of capitalism through a long-term revolutionary patience.

  • The Age of Extremes

    As tempting as it is to fantasize on what could have been, the historian’s task, Hobsbawm quips, is to analyze what was.

  • Beyond Jubilee

    My review of Haymarket’s Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay: The Case for Economic Disobedience and Debt Abolition, for The Bias magazine.

  • Dialectical Ecology

    Theorizing a two-way relationship between humanity and the natural world.

  • Unmasking Mammon

    My review of Haymarket’s A People’s Guide to Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics, for The Bias magazine.

  • Los Angeles Intellectuals

    Lurking beneath the sunny veneer of culture-capitalism is a lineage of critical work that, as Mike Davis argues, emerged as L.A.’s distinctive intellectual contribution: the genre of noir.

  • The Marx Delusion

    A specter is haunting characterizations of Karl Marx.