The Life and Death of Words, People, and Even Nature: From Walking Libraries and a God Named “Word” to What Sherlock Holmes Never Said. Passages excerpted from Eduardo Galeano’s new book, Children of the Days: A Calendar of Human History (Nation Books).
Reader comments: War in Ukraine and the Crisis of the Left and more. Announcements: Books, Films, Events.
The father of game theory helped develop the atom bomb—and thought he could calculate when to use it.
Nicholas Mulder’s account of the modern economic sanctions regime sheds new light on an era of extreme destabilization and destruction.
Why socialists should read Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick.
Reader Comments: Abortion Rights; Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex; Disastrous Drug War; Robots; Art and Culture Under Billionaire Assault; Reds-The Movie, lots of comments; Race and 1776; Books;
This profound meditation on the science of life explores where it has come from and how it evolves
Reader Comments: Condo Collapse; Rumsfeld Dead; Voting Rights; Critical Race Theory; Filibuster; How to Defeat Capitalism; Maggie Phair Remembered; Take Action - Syringes to Cuba; Book Sale; Summer Organizing Institute; Black Arts; more....
Reader Comments: Manchin and the Filibuster; Secret IRS Files; Police Reform; Palestinian Workers; Gender Diversity; Evangelicals and MAGA; Whiteness of Wealth; Art of the Spanish Civil War; Books on Sale; Announcements; and more...
The journal’s intrepid book reviewer surveys a mélange of fall 2021 university and scholarly books on human origins and development, finding some surprising commonality in an otherwise often conflictual field.
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