Can Literature Really Be an Agent of Political Resistance?

Keegan Cook Finberg / Los Angeles Review of Books Sep 27, 2019 In her latest book, Juliana Spahr explores what radical literature has done to challenge forms of nationalism in the U.S. and reaches a disappointing conclusion. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )

The Second Sight of W.E.B. Du Bois

Chris Hedges and Mr. Fish / Truthdig Jun 3, 2018 The famed sociologist saw what most white intellectuals could not: the savage nature of an American empire intent on suppressing and exploiting people of color in the U.S. and across the world. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

The Real Enemy Is Within

Chris Hedges / Truthdig Sep 7, 2015 If you are not dedicated to the destruction of empire and the dismantling of American militarism, then you cannot count yourself as a member of the left. It is not a side issue. It is the issue. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )

Why the Left Should Look to Jackson, Mississippi

By Michael Siegel May 22, 2014 A new political and economic model is emerging, and it is not appearing where we might suspect it would. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

The Power of Imagination

Chris Hedges / Truthdig May 12, 2014 Amid the psychoses of modern times, we are suicidally exploiting the earth and our neighbors If we are to survive, we must reclaim the reverence for life made possible by the human imagination Amid the psychoses of modern times, we are suicidally exploiting the earth and our neighbors. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Black-History Expert Arrested in His Home; Racism Alleged

Staff / Truthdig Jul 21, 2009 One Sgt. James Crowley may have thought he was stopping a break-in when he showed up at a house near Harvard Square in Cambridge, Mass., last Thursday, but the man he eventually arrested there happened to be professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., chair of the Afro-American studies department and director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research at Harvard University, who just happened to be in his own home. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )