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  • War Trauma

    War Trauma

    In this excerpt from Combat Trauma, Nadia Abu El-Haj highlights the painstaking efforts taken to grant American soldiers an exemption from the violence they commit.

  • Morality and style by Theodor Adorno

    Morality and style by Theodor Adorno

    The logic of the day, which makes so much of its clarity, has naively adopted this perverted notion of everyday speech. Vague expression permits the hearer to imagine whatever suits him and what he already thinks in any case.

  • Eco-socialist futures

    Eco-socialist futures

    We need radical ideas and systemic change to combat the urgent threat of climate disaster. This reading list of eco-utopian thinking can help guide us.

  • The bad comrade by Theodor Adorno

    The bad comrade by Theodor Adorno

    In a real sense, I ought to be able to deduce Fascism from the memories of my childhood. Now that they, officials and re­cruits, have stepped visibly out of my dream and dispossessed me of my past life and my language, I no longer need to dream of them. In Fascism the nightmare of childhood has come true.

  • My Revolutionary Inspiration, Barbara Ehrenreich

    My Revolutionary Inspiration, Barbara Ehrenreich

    The author and political activist Barbara Ehrenreich died on the 1st September 2022 at the age of 81. Here, Lynne Segal looks beyond her best-selling work Nickel and Dimed to the major role she played in women’s liberation and U.S. socialism.

  • Coming clean by Theodor Adorno

    Coming clean by Theodor Adorno

    To find out whether a person means us well there is one almost infallible criterion: how he passes on unkind or hostile remarks about us.