My last article for Global Comment explored how we have lost our common architecture of activism that created and guided mass movements of the past. I argued that the individualistic modern world...
Social media isn't going away anytime soon. Facebook and Twitter, blogging and the latest Google app are here to stay, it seems. But aside from giving us new ways to socialize, can these new...
What we didn't know that we knew about Afghanistan In his book Iraq: The Borrowed Kettle, philosopher Slajov Zizek laid out an ad-hoc taxonomy for various kinds of knowledge, via a reference to then...
The verdict is in. Kaing Guek Eav, aka Comrade Duch (68) of the Khmer Rouge was convicted of war crimes, crimes against humanity and grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions by the trial chamber of...
I made the Hunter S. Thompson joke as we circled the Strip in the airport shuttle. If not for the connection to the Good Doctor, Las Vegas would seem an incongruous place for a left-leaning...
This is the first in a series of posts on Activism in the United States from regular GC contributor Erik Loomis. Let us know what you think! I have an obsession with the state of activism in the...
When is a duck not a duck? Seemingly if it’s a grizzly. If you paid attention to United States “feminist” writing in May and June you may have noticed a wee bit of activity over the use of the...
This is part two of two parts from historian and Global Comment regular contributor Erik Loomis on the history behind the U.S.’s current “Tea Party” movement. Part one is here. Enjoy! Big...
For those of us who read John Le Carré novels and fancy ourselves to be espionage buffs, the FBI's dramatic bust of an alleged Russian spy ring last week provided an opportunity to show off our...
The rise of the Tea Party has shocked the political establishment. Seemingly out of nowhere, the emergence of a grassroots far-right movement overwhelmed the Democratic landslide victory in 2008. The...
