Summer Reading
A new book on the economics of slavery by historian Jennifer Morgan, plus politics, Confederate monument controversies, poetry, and the news
Big Fish Supper Club, Route 2, Bena, Minnesota; 1980. Image credit: Public Domain Review
Week of June 17, 2021
Featured Interview:
Natalie Diaz and Evangeline Riddiford Graham, “This Body Is a Gift: The Pulitzer Prize winning poet on her book, Postcolonial Love Poem.” (April 6, 2020)
Politics
Leonard C. Goodman, “How ‘The Squad’ Has Caved to Corporate Power: People who want structural change in the U.S. will have to develop new channels and networks to overcome the established system.” (June 16, 2021)
Adam Littlestone-Luria, “Democrats and Anti-Trump Conservatives Must Join Forces to Defend Democracy: But the wounds of the Reagan and Bush years have created a stark barrier to cooperation across ideological lines.” (June 16, 2021)
Books
Jennifer Morgan, “Slavery Made Economic Thinking Possible: An excerpt from Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic.” (June 16, 2021)
Karen L. Cox and Claire Potter, “Confederate Monuments Are Not History: Like the contemporary war on `critical race theory,’ these statues of the defeated prop up white supremacy in the name of a false past.” (June 15, 2021)
Our Columnists
Pat Garofalo, “A Shocking Win in Texas: One of the worst corporate boondoggle programs in the country met its end.” (June 16, 2021)
Heather Cox Richardson, “In Defense of Democracy: From Israel to Peru, there are lots of moving pieces in the world right now.” (June 14, 2021)
John Stoehr, “How the Press Corps Severs Public Debate from the Constraints of History, Creating Space for Real Harm: To illustrate, let me draw your attention to a local story.” (June 14, 2021)
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