Salar Mohandesi is an associate professor of history at Bowdoin College and the author of Red Internationalism: Anti-Imperialism and Human Rights in the Global Sixties and Seventies.
From the Americas to the Middle East, the US is deploying the crudest forms of imperial aggression to shore up its power. This is ultimately a sign of weakness rather than strength, as the foundations upon which the US empire rested are crumbling.
Ken Burns’s documentary on the Vietnam War seeks a premature closure.
The 1960s magazine that kept alive the history of the US left and provided the intellectual material for its future.
Eric Garner’s murder is not only about the justice system. It’s about how capitalism creates racialized categories of “surplus” people.