In the second book of his trilogy, Lawrence Swaim explains in strictly human terms what causes aggression to replicate itself and how aggression—when rationalized, concealed, or dissembled—can become evil.
2014
Picasso and Chagall: Two Thought-Provoking Art Books
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by Susan Tumarkin Goodman and T.J. Clark
2014
Prospects for a Resurgence of the U.S. Left
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How can the Left overcome its fragmentation? Forming a coalition against neoliberalism and environmental degradation is one way to start.
2014
What Do the Suicides of Fifty-Year-Old Men Reveal?
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Suicide has become a public health emergency for middle-aged men in the United States, exposing a deeper economic and existential crisis.
2014
Political Posters for the Twenty-First Century: A Spotlight on the Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative
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Surveillance. War. Immigration. Palestine. Social justice heroes. Occupy. The political posters of the Justseeds collective take on all this and more.
2014
Joining the Party for a More Powerful Left
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The Left spends too much energy deciding whom to exclude. Let’s build a pluralistic, big-tent Left that embraces all with liberal-Left political faith.
2014
What Kind of Left Does America Need?
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Reviving our radical imagination, launching a political education program, and creating a new political formation must be the priorities of today’s Left
2014
Liberalism and the Left
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Younger leftists will work to preserve our country’s social welfare architecture — but we’re also setting our sights on revolutionary ends!
2014
Spring 2014 Table of Contents
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2014
Enter the Alter-Left: Reviving Our Revolutionary Nerve
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Anti-neoliberal mobilizations in Latin America, WTO protests in Seattle, and Occupy Wall Street have catalyzed a promising force: the Alter-Left.
2014
A Living Wage – Not a Minimum Wage
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We hope Democrats will succeed in raising the minimum wage to $10.10, but we realize that more is needed to end poverty. Fight for a living wage!
2014
The Past, Present, and Future of the American Left
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Retelling a liberalist story of America’s founding will never yield what we need: a self-aware Left with a proper conception of capitalism.
2014
Does America Need a Left? An Introduction
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America needs a spiritual Left—not a soul-deprived, economistic, and narrowly rights-oriented movement that plays into the hands of the Right.
2014
Pope Francis and the Christian Renewal He Seeks
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Pope Francis has legitimated a powerful critique of global capitalism, drawing attention to its anti-spiritual, anti-God, anti-ethical essence.
2014
Why the Left Needs America: A Response to Eli Zaretsky’s Why America Needs a Left: A Historical Argument
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To be effective the Left must learn to retell the story of America’s founding. In that sense, the Left needs America more than America needs a Left.