The Man Who Should Have Been Commissioner: A Political & Baseball View On W.
By David Duhalde
Channel surfing during punditry on a very late Monday night, I found myself watching Major League Baseball commissioner Bud Selig live on ESPN. He was addressing reporters about the historic, but ultimately inconsequential, decision to suspend 2008 World Series Game […]
Book Review by Kenny Grand“The End of the World As We Know It: Social Science for the Twenty-First Century”by Immanuel Wallerstein “Furthermore, it is precisely in periods of transition from one historical system to another one (whose nature we cannot know in advance) that human struggle takes on the most meaning.”
In this volume, Immanuel Wallerstein […]
A lot of my time is spent thinking about how to be a better person and a better writer. Usually, the two go hand-in-hand. So anyway, there are three pretty basic points that I’ve at least personally been adopting. There maybe more; I’m 23 and there is no way that I could even start to […]
We all know Hillary Clinton the millionaire senator, Hillary Clinton the first lady and Hillary Clinton the corporate lawyer. Fewer know the story of Hillary Clinton, working class hero.
Our future president was born in a sod house by the shores of Lake Winola, PA. Modern obstetrics had not established itself in that part of the […]
At the November 2007 Democratic Socialists of America Convention in Atlanta, a group of DSA labor activists formed a Labor Network to revitalize DSA’s relationship to the labor movement.
We have set up a blog, “Talking Union” (http://talkingunion.wordpress.com/), as a forum for democratic socialists, labor activists and their allies to address the challenges facing the labor […]
Over the past couple of years, the phenomenon known as “Web 2.0” has transformed the way people make use of the Internet. This catch-all term encompasses all of the new participatory web-based technologies such as blogs, wikis and social networking sites, the best known of which are Facebook and MySpace. On the face of it, […]
Jonah Goldberg thinks so - or at least he thinks my politics are significantly rooted in the fascist movements and governments of yesteryear. Goldberg makes his case in his newly published book, Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning. I have not (and will not) read […]
Last month YDS’s New York chapter held a free screening of La Americana (trailer at www.la-americana.com). Held in the progressive St. Mary’s Church in Harlem, attendance reached about 40 people who braved the chilling temperature outside as well as inside the church (which is, after all, over 100 years old!)
The documentary is about a Bolivian […]
…and Joe said, “you people need some new tunes.”
Any self-respecting social movement needs a repertoire of decent songs. The American left, despite its relative political weakness, has given the world a treasure trove of political hymns and radical anthems. Spirituals and gospel songs associated with the labor and civil rights movements are now sung all […]
This past weekend, I attended an anti-war rally organized by a peace coalition in Chicago. Although several thousand demonstrators showed up, I still felt that at this stage in the war there should have been many thousands more. As usual, the media hardly covered the event.
There was an especially strong presence of sectarian groups, each […]
