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The Marxist scholar who believes anti-racism is a cover for capitalism

John Fea   |  February 1, 2022

If you listen to some folks on the Right these days you might conclude that there is little difference between the anti-racism and Marxism. But as Benjamin Wallace-Wells reveals in his recent piece on political scientist Adolph Reed, there are...

The Jacobin editors on the “commonsense solidarity” of the American working class

John Fea   |  November 12, 2021

The socialist magazine Jacobin recently published a study on the political views of the American working-class. The editors offer several takeaways: “Working-class voters prefer progressive candidates who focus primarily on bread-and-butter economic issues, and who frame those issues in universal...

Words with no meaning

John Fea   |  June 3, 2021

“Cancel culture.” “Wokness.” “Critical Race Theory.” “Socialism.” We are debating these issues and we have no idea what they mean. Here is a taste of Hamilton Nolan at In These Times: To attempt to have any kind of good faith...

Is Democratic Socialism anti-Christian?

John Fea   |  April 14, 2021

Here is a taste of Stephen Mattson‘s piece at Sojourners: “Why Democratic Socialism Isn’t Anti-Christian“: Contemporary Christians are among those who have embraced the democratic socialist platform as a necessary check against an economy and political system they view as...

Bruce Springsteen’s embrace of liberalism

John Fea   |  April 6, 2021

Yesterday we published Tony Norman’s piece on Renegades: Born in the U.S.A., the much acclaimed Obama-Springsteen podcast. Check it out here. Read Norman’s piece alongside Dennis M. Hogan’s essay at The Baffler. In “Runaway American Dreams,” Hogan traces Springsteen’s move...

World Socialist Web Site publishes its critique of the 1619 Project

John Fea   |  March 10, 2021

Learn more about David North and Thomas Mackaman’s edited collection, The New York Times’ 1619 Project and the Racialist Falsification of History. The book includes essays or interviews with Victoria Bynum, James McPherson, James Oakes, Gordon Wood, Adolph Reed Jr.,...

What the Oprah interview with Meghan and Harry revealed

John Fea   |  March 9, 2021

I have been fascinated with the responses to the article I posted about here. (What follows assumes you have read Brendan O’Neill’s piece). It is interesting to watch how the British royal family elicits such strong responses from Americans. Nothing...

A socialist defense of Abraham Lincoln monuments in Chicago

John Fea   |  March 9, 2021

The city of Chicago recently launched a group called The Chicago Monuments Project. Here is the project’s mission statement: The Chicago Monuments Project intends to grapple with the often unacknowledged – or forgotten – history associated with the City’s various municipal...

CPAC 2021 is over. Let’s check-in with the MAGA evangelicals

John Fea   |  March 3, 2021

On Saturday night I published a post on the Trump evangelical response to the former president’s speech at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference. You can read it here. Let’s check-in on them today: The Liberty University Falkirk Center crowd...

The CPAC vocabulary. Defining terms.

John Fea   |  February 27, 2021

I am teaching the American Revolution this semester. The other day, as we were reading and interpreting some primary documents, I asked the students to notice how the writers of these documents all seemed to use a similar political language....

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