How come Ugandan activists are upbeat while so many U.S. activists are glum?
2011
Prospects for the U.S. Left: Not Bad At All
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The growing public anger at capitalism is palpable. When conservative radio hosts play up Marxist websites, things are looking up.
2011
Overcoming Despair as the Republicans Take Over: A Conversation with Noam Chomsky
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How are national initiatives built locally? Can we push Obama leftward in 2012? Chomsky calls for small steps toward confronting global capital.
2011
Truth, Illumination, and Nuclear Weapons
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The highest spiritual truths include this one: Don’t Kill Everybody.
26.2 Spring 2011
Tunisia, Egypt, and Israel
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U.S. policy in the Middle East keeps opting for stability over morality — and so ends up with neither.
2011
Heaven’s Snake
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“Is the cornsnake Jewish?” This was a tough question to answer. I was visiting with the first-grade class taught by my then-girlfriend, who had introduced me to her students as “Farmer Josh” — and then thrust a large-ish cornsnake into my less-than-willing hands.
2011
Readers Respond: Letters from Spring 2011
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Expanded version of the letters printed in the Spring 2011 issue of Tikkun.