Useful StoogesDe Man’s deceptionsThey were called the deconstructionists, and a few decades ago they were the stars of academic literary studies in the United States. Based…Sep 6, 2016Sep 6, 2016
Useful StoogesA “football voice on social issues”?Colin who? For those who are not fans of American football, the name of Colin Kaepernick was, until recently, entirely unknown.Sep 5, 2016Sep 5, 2016
Useful StoogesExit RousseffWell, it’s over. On Wednesday, Brazilian presidentDilma Rousseff was removed from office.Sep 1, 2016Sep 1, 2016
Useful StoogesThe girl who cries “racist”In recent weeks we’ve been discussing a couple of ambitious lads who, despite their very tender ages, have already made a big name for…Aug 29, 2016Aug 29, 2016
Useful StoogesWas Hobsbawm a spy?This week we’re remembering British historianE. J. Hobsbawm, who spent his life applauding Stalin — and being applauded, in turn, by the…Aug 25, 2016Aug 25, 2016
Useful StoogesMaking Hobsbawm a heroYesterday we started exploring the legacy of the late British historian E. J. Hobsbawm, a hero of the British and American cultural elite —…Aug 24, 2016Aug 24, 2016
Useful StoogesThe spectacular StalinistWhen the British historian E. J. Hobsbawm died on October 1, 2012, at the age of 95, the “respectable” media on both sides of the Atlantic…Aug 22, 2016Aug 22, 2016
Useful StoogesFamine and fraudDouglas Tottle is a Canadian trade-union activist whose 1987 book Fraud, Famine and Fascism may fairly be described as the bible of…Aug 18, 2016Aug 18, 2016
Useful StoogesCoplon v. ConquestYesterday we looked at the first wave of denial about the Holodomor, the famine that Stalin engineered in the Ukraine in 1932–33. We saw…Aug 16, 20161Aug 16, 20161
Useful StoogesDenying the HolodomorUkrainians call it the Holodomor, which means “extermination by hunger.” The man-made famine — conceived by Stalin as a way of eliminating…Aug 15, 2016Aug 15, 2016
