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Book Review: “Disputing Disaster” — A Fascinating Look at the Search for the Origins of World War I

November 4, 2024
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In tracing the tortuous path that established historians took in trying to get to the bottom of the war, Perry Anderson doesn’t acknowledge leftwing observers who knew perfectly well what was going on at the time.

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Book Review: “Free Them All” — The Case for Abolishing Prisons

August 1, 2023
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“Free Them All”‘s analysis of the broken prison system and the obstacles facing those determined to find solutions combines scholarly discipline with a powerful, emotional appeal for justice.

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Book Review: “We Uyghurs Have No Say” — When Truth Telling Becomes Subversive

March 12, 2022
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What do the words of an imprisoned Uyghur dissident tell us about the desperate plight of China’s ethnic minorities today?

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Book Review: “The U.S. Antifascism Reader” — Recovering the Great American Tradition of Punching Nazis

July 18, 2020
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Practical handbook, compendium of theory, or history of an American tradition? A little of each… but enough of any?

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