Category: Noel Ignatiev’s Blog

  • September 2, 2019
    By Noel Ignatiev   The summer following my first year in graduate school at the University, I took a job running…
  • September 2, 2019
    By Noel Ignatiev In the summer of 1961 I left the University of Pennsylvania and took a job at a…
  • September 2, 2019
    by Joel Gilbert, as told to Noel Ignatiev I was born in 1973, and grew up in Port Huron, Michigan,…
  • September 2, 2019
    By Noel Ignatiev "It was the crossover play on the right wing,” Curry’s teammate Andre Iguodala said in recalling the…
  • September 2, 2019
    By Noel Ignatiev America is the Society of the Spectacle, and, predictably, much of the response to the Charleston shootings…
  • September 2, 2019
    by John Garvey & Noel Ignatiev Our initial reaction to the Rachel Dolezal story was: what’s the big deal? America…
  • September 2, 2019
    By Noel Ignatiev Russell Banks described John Brown as the one figure in American history all blacks think is a…
  • September 2, 2019
    By Noel Ignatiev The following is from an exchange that took place between June 8 and June 11. There were…
  • September 2, 2019
    By Noel Ignatiev Loren Goldner, coeditor of Insurgent Notes (insurgentnotes.com), and I talked about things that make it difficult for…
  • September 2, 2019
    By Noel Ignatiev I recently read an essay by Alain Badiou, “Tunisia and Egypt: The universal Significance of the Popular…
  • September 2, 2019
    Paper presented at the 2nd Haifa Conference for the return of Palestinian refugees and for the Democratic Secular State in Historic…
  • September 2, 2019
    By Noel Ignatiev Dear Friends, Last week, as yet another mega-typhoon laid waste to the Philippines, the leaders of 183…
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