Category: Noel Ignatiev’s Blog

  • September 2, 2019
    by Penelope Rosemont "Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue."—Oscar Wilde " .…
  • September 2, 2019
    Behind the Euro Crisis: Germany Gambles on the Old Dream of European Hegemony By Richard Greeman German industrial and financial…
  • September 2, 2019
    The following is an email I recently got from a student, followed by my reply: Hi Noel! So I am…
  • September 2, 2019
     From a friend: I went to the Occupy Harvard teach-in yesterday. Terrific, almost all about economics and the economy. After…
  • September 2, 2019
    Norman Finkelstein spoke last night at Occupy Boston. He gave one of the most miserable performances I have ever witnessed,…
  • September 2, 2019
    The overnight clearing of Zuccotti Park by the police, following similar actions by police in Denver, Portland, Oakland and Atlanta,…
  • September 2, 2019
    Jubilee! Proclaim liberty throughout the land—Leviticus 25:10 In ancient times there existed a tradition of periodically canceling all debts. It…
  • September 2, 2019
    On September 11, 2001 I was delivering a lecture in my first-year survey class in U.S. history. Since it was…
  • September 2, 2019
    Since the beginning of the “uprising” and NATO bombardment in Libya,  opinion in “progressive” circles has been of two schools:…
  • September 2, 2019
    Then I ask, "What color is an FBI agent?" A few stammer and stutter objections—I do teach in Berkeley, California…
  • September 2, 2019
    I have just finished reading American Uprising: The Untold Story of America’s Largest Slave Revolt by Daniel Rasmussen, who presented…
  • September 2, 2019
    I read the other day that a columnist in Ha’aretz (the soft-zionist Israeli newspaper) said, "Obama murdered bin Laden for…
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