Video: Noam Chomsky discusses Donald Trump
. In this short clip, Noam Chomsky talks about the reasons for Donald Trump’s popularity and the anger among many white voters that the Republican presidential candidate is exploiting. The … Continue reading
Jose Padua: The Philosophy of Flowers v. The Speed of Life
It was probably the day before my dad died that I brought in from the car the September 2011 issue of Poetry, in which I found the card he had … Continue reading
John Samuel Tieman: The Break-in
for the wives of war veterans there’s no particular way to hold the past in one hand but she knew his medals were in the drawer he never opened she … Continue reading
Video: Dhaya Lakshminarayanan, “Chasing Bubba”
Powerhouse raconteur Dhaya Lakshminarayanan recounts the story of how she met Bill Clinton. Original score by Alex Mandel, performed by Alex and the Snap Playaz.
Gabriel García Márquez: A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
Translated by Gregory Rabassa On the third day of rain they had killed so many crabs inside the house that Pelayo had to cross his drenched courtyard and throw them … Continue reading
Audio: Moondog — “Bird’s Lament”
. Louis Thomas Hardin (1916 – 1999), better known as Moondog, was an American composer, musician, poet and inventor of several musical instruments. He was blind from the age of … Continue reading
Sam Hamill: The New York Poem
I sit in the dark, not brooding exactly, not waiting for the dawn that is just beginning, at six-twenty-one, in gray October light behind the trees. I sit, breathing, mind … Continue reading
Christopher Smart: For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry
For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry. For he is the servant of the Living God duly and daily serving him. For at the first glance of the glory of … Continue reading
ACLU: Ending Modern-Day Debtors’ Prisons in America
From the American Civil Liberties Union: Nearly two centuries ago, the United States formally abolished the incarceration of people who failed to pay off debts. Yet, recent years have witnessed … Continue reading
Ace Boggess: Rocketship X-M
Lippert Pictures, 1950 The more I watch, the less my eyes squeeze with anger at what has become redundancy: man wipes out man- (in this case Martian-) -kind with bombs. … Continue reading
Aviva Chomsky: The Battle for the Soul of American Higher Education
Student Protest, the Black Lives Matter Movement, and the Rise of the Corporate University During the past academic year, an upsurge of student activism, a movement of millennials, has swept … Continue reading
Charles W. Brice: Elvis Presley Patch
Let’s face it there is no hair left on the top of my head. Even if I bought a designer mop, or had a hair transplant and looked like … Continue reading
Video: Meat Industry Reaction to New Cancer Guidelines
According to the World Health Organization, processed meat, such as bacon, ham, hot dogs, sausage, and lunchmeat, is now classified as a class 1 carcinogen, the highest designation. This finding supports … Continue reading
Chris Hedges: What Rosa Luxemburg teaches us
Chris Hedges gave this talk on revolutionary socialist Rosa Luxemburg on Friday, May 20, 2016 at the Left Forum in New York City. On the night of Jan. 15, 1919, … Continue reading
