Insurgent Notes

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

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

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

It’s the morning after 700 marchers from Occupy Wall Street were arrested as they marched across the Brooklyn Bridge.  It’s a beautiful fall day in New York.  The Liberty Plaza occupiers remain securely in place—with a substantial, but not overwhelming, police presence on their margins.  The couple of hundred occupiers

Introduction  At the moment, there are bitter struggles going on over continuing school failures, testing policies, budget cuts to schools and colleges, layoffs, school closings, class sizes, and the establishment of charter schools.  There is also an increasingly sharp debate emerging between proponents of what I will refer to as

Introduction While the oil “spill” at the Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico (fifty miles off the Louisiana coast) that began with an explosion and fire on the Deepwater Horizon on April 20th has received a great deal of attention in the regular news media (some of it, by