Wright's Writing

The subject of this post is pretty far afield from what I usually write about, but the book I just read is so brilliant I had to write a...

Probably unwisely, I've posted my lifelong intellectual journal online, specifically on Google Books . It's a very long document that no...

[This article was published at Compact .] The world is at its most dangerous moment since the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. Back then,...

My journal helps keep me sane. From January to March I've occasionally jotted down thoughts on the horrors occurring every day in Gaza,...

I've found politics so incredibly bleak lately, and I've been so frustrated by my inability to make any kind of difference...

[This article was published in The Philosophical Salon.] In Wilhelm von Humboldt’s book The Limits of State Action (1792), one of the...

[Published at Common Dreams.] “The Republican Party is the most dangerous organization in human history,” says Noam Chomsky. It seems...

[Published at Dissident Voice and other places.] Twitter conversations with public intellectuals are rarely worthy of note, but a recent...

[This article was published at Sublation and other venues.] Political discourse in the United States consists largely of lies and...

[This article was published at Common Dreams.] Everyone who abhors war, detests imperialism, and favors cooperation between nations on...

[Published in Compact magazine.] Twenty years ago, Noam Chomsky published a bestselling book called Hegemony or Survival. Since then, the...

[Published at Common Dreams.] To be a leftist in the United States is a dispiriting experience, but in the last year one of the more...

[This is a short story I wrote twenty years ago after visiting Vietnam for a couple of weeks. It starts with a dream and ends with...

[Published in Dissident Voice.] One might as well state the matter clearly: given the realities of global warming, rampant environmental...

[A book review published at Common Dreams.] As I was reading Norman Finkelstein’s new book, I’ll Burn That Bridge When I Get to It!:...

Here's an insanely long post. It's actually a "literary experiment" I wrote almost twenty years ago (as the following preface says, which...

[This article was published at Sublation.] A striking paradox of the history of the left is that it is full of self-defeat. From the...

Last summer I published the book version of my Ph.D. dissertation, bearing the ungainly title Popular Radicalism and the Unemployed in...

[This article was published at Sublation magazine.] The reparations debate is getting old. But it shows little sign of abating. Academic...

[This article was published at Compact magazine.] In the United States there exists today, and has existed since at least the 1950s, a...