Wright's Writing

This scumbag is a "postliberal." [The following interview was published here .] Introduction : Like any “ism,” liberalism is many things,...

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...

[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 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...

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...

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

On one side is the mediocrity of all functionaries. All bureaucrats. There’s no point in my writing about bureaucrats in the ordinary...

A long time ago I posted some thoughts on America's use of the atomic bomb at the end of World War II. I happen to be reading parts of...

One of the first laws of human existence, or at least of existence in class societies (determined by anti-human institutions that mold...

The good folks at DSA (of which I'm a proud member) were kind enough to publish the following article recently in their online...