Robots for a $15 minimum wage. Help support the movement for our fellow androids by wearing this shirt and advocating for higher minimum wages to get us more jobs. Robots for a $15 minimum wage. Help support the movement for our fellow androids by wearing this shirt and advocating for higher minimum wages to get […]
What will be the legacy of the New South?
Once again, the eyes of the nation, and indeed the world, are transfixed on the tale of the American south. The dust of the violent and deadly clashes in the streets of the college town of Charlottesville between right-wing and left-wing fascists has settled and self-reflection has begun. For many around the world, the American […]
Austria’s millennial leader in waiting may surprise by embracing the far-right
By Yaël Ossowski Last Saturday, in a muted and highly uncontested leadership election in Linz, Austria, 30-year-old Sebastian Kurz secured 98.7 percent of the vote to head the Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP) before October’s elections. Well-dressed and soft-spoken in a posh Viennese accent, the young Minister of Foreign Affairs and Integration unveiled his platform and […]
Serifos Island
Mark Twain on Learning German
“Surely there is not another language that is so slipshod and systemless, and so slippery and elusive to the grasp. One is washed about in it, hither and thither, in the most helpless way; and when at last he thinks he has captured a rule which offers firm ground to take a rest on amid […]
Schevchenko, Lviv, and the Glory of Ukraine
I am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and that the preservation of this spirit is more important than any social system whatsoever.
Sinclair Lewis, It Can’t Happen Here
Sinclair Lewis, It Can’t Happen Here
The Battles of the Sinclairs and the Real Socialist and Fascist Strive for Power
At present, I’m making my way through Sinclair Lewis’ It Can’t Happen Here. It’s a rather dated novel, detailing the rise of a fascist American leader who employs typical patriotic tropes, slogans, and attitude during the election of 1936. Many today would like to make the obvious connection to the rise of President-Elect Donald Trump. […]