In Utopia

I stopped reading Dissent when it came out in favor of the Iraq war, but Momo links to an interesting essay from it by Ellen Willis, on, let us say for short, the Revolution which is still to come. The validity of utopianism is the topic here. I am perusing Walter Benjamin’s On the Concept … More In Utopia

William Lloyd Garrison

Abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison closed The Liberator in 1865, on the theory that its work was done. Colonial powers carved up of Africa in the name of suppressing the slave trade. We can read all about this and more in New World Order, Robin Blackburn’s review of some new books on slavery. It is interesting … More William Lloyd Garrison

Nikolai Bukharin

When she was 97, my aunt Helen took me to lunch at the upscale Lark Creek Inn. Normally she took members of our family to the Blue Rock, where we would drink gin fizzes, but we went to the Lark Creek Inn because she had been to the Blue Rock the day before. “I am … More Nikolai Bukharin