Introduction A few months ago, a participant in a listserv that I belong to posted a proposal for “A Day without Teachers” in solidarity with the members of the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) who subsequently went on strike for seven days in September.  See my article on the strike in this issue.  For what it’s […]

In Love and Capital, published in 2011, Mary Gabriel makes a really good case that love was at the center of the life of the revolutionary named Karl Marx.  She does so by situating what might be considered the biography of Marx’s public life in the biography of his personal life.  Although she includes the […]

Dying of Whiteness is a recently published book by Jonathan Metzl.  Metzl is a psychiatrist and a sociologist who directs the Center for Medicine, Health and Society at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.  The book has received a good deal of attention in the mainstream media but, unfortunately, that attention has often oversimplified many of […]