Wright's Writing

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

[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...

[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!:...

[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 various pages of this website and blog I've criticized some of the dogmas of feminism, for instance the social constructionist dogmas...

[This is a review published at H-Socialisms.] Vivek Chibber. The Class Matrix: Social Theory after the Cultural Turn. Harvard University...

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...

Some months ago I saw Richard Dawkins recommend on Twitter a new book called The End of Gender: Debunking the Myths about Sex and...

You may have heard of the “talking gorilla” Koko. I remember as a child reading about this fascinating creature that had been trained to...

[Here are notes I took many years ago while reading Richard Rorty’s famous book Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature. As you’ll see from...

Anarchism (anti-authoritarianism, love of freedom) is an essential thing, an essential guide for our thinking and action, but I have to...

[An article from several months ago.] In the age of COVID-19, it’s even more obvious than it’s been for at least a couple of decades that...

[From 2015.] Reading a bunch of articles on cognitive development. A fascinating field. Interesting: Human infants who receive little...

[Notes from ten years ago.] I’m amazed at the extent of our culture’s cult of secrecy in matters of the body. Even in this age, people...

If you're like me and are dumb enough to take an interest in abstruse debates among social scientists, you may have heard of the "debate"...

Years later, I still reproach myself for self-publishing my book on cooperatives, because that ensured it would have a limited...