by Joel Gilbert, as told to Noel Ignatiev I was born in 1973, and grew up in Port Huron, Michigan,…
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The Beauty of Language
By Noel Ignatiev “It was the crossover play on the right wing,” Curry’s teammate Andre Iguodala said in recalling the…
In Response to Charleston
By Noel Ignatiev America is the Society of the Spectacle, and, predictably, much of the response to the Charleston shootings…
Beyond the Spectacle: New Abolitionists Speak Out
by John Garvey & Noel Ignatiev Our initial reaction to the Rachel Dolezal story was: what’s the big deal? America…
Reflections on John Brown
By Noel Ignatiev Russell Banks described John Brown as the one figure in American history all blacks think is a…
Doddering Old Fool Addresses Problems of Antizionism
By Noel Ignatiev The following is from an exchange that took place between June 8 and June 11. There were…
Memorandum of Understanding
By Noel Ignatiev Loren Goldner, coeditor of Insurgent Notes (insurgentnotes.com), and I talked about things that make it difficult for…
Movement Communism
By Noel Ignatiev I recently read an essay by Alain Badiou, “Tunisia and Egypt: The universal Significance of the Popular…
No Moral Justification
Paper presented at the 2nd Haifa Conference for the return of Palestinian refugees and for the Democratic Secular State in Historic…
Catholicism: The New Communism?
By Noel Ignatiev Dear Friends, Last week, as yet another mega-typhoon laid waste to the Philippines, the leaders of 183…