The Bankruptcy of the American Left
Feb 5, 2018 As long as liberals allow themselves to be divided by identity politics and the culture wars, they will be under the heel of a rapacious corporate capitalism.
Magical Thinking Is Stopping Us From Taking to the Streets
Dec 10, 2017 One reason people are quiescent in the face of racist, sexist, ecocidal outrage is their belief that Russiagate special prosecutor Robert Mueller will save them.
Blaming Russia Is Irresistible to the Democrats
Dec 23, 2016 The “Putin did it” narrative is not about keeping Donald Trump out of office (an impossibility). It’s about shaping the political and policy environment in coming months and years.
Sheldon Wolin and Inverted Totalitarianism
Nov 2, 2015 America's most important contemporary political theorist, who died Oct. 21, warned that militarists and corporate capitalists, obsessed with creating a global empire, would extinguish our democracy. We should have heeded his warning.AUDIO: Chris Hedges on Rebels, Visionaries and ‘Wages of Rebellion’
Jun 24, 2015 What compels a rebel to follow a path that, as history shows, almost always puts that person in mortal danger?We Need a New Word for Revolution (Parts 6, 7 and 8)
Nov 8, 2014 Truthdig columnist Chris Hedges and political philosopher Sheldon Wolin conclude their eight-part series on American democracy and corporate capitalism with conversations about the consequences of relentless totalitarianism, the nature of participatory democracy and how to think about the possibility of revolution.‘We Never Managed to Relax’ After World War II (Parts 4 and 5)
Oct 31, 2014 In the fourth and fifth installments of their long conversation on corporate capitalism and American democracy, Truthdig columnist Chris Hedges and political philosopher Sheldon Wolin discuss the concept of "inverted totalitarianism," Wolin's experience as a university professor and the expulsion of unorthodox academics in the postwar United States.Can Capitalism and Democracy Coexist? (Parts 1, 2 and 3)
Oct 25, 2014 Truthdig columnist Chris Hedges embarks on a long, ranging discussion with political philosopher and former professor of politics at Princeton University Sheldon Wolin on the state of American democracy and the rise of corporate capitalism.
