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  • The politics of reading

    Black Panthers in a reading circle, (Photo: Pirkle Jones) The politics of reading Originally published: Simplifying Socialism  on June 12, 2026 by A. J. Horn (more by Simplifying Socialism) (Posted Jun 15, 2026) Culture, Human Rights, Ideology, LiteratureGlobalNewswire The act of reading is so much more than following text with your eyes or—if you prefer audiobooks—with your ears. Done properly, reading…

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  • This Can’t Be It

    ByBen Burgis In last night’s debate, Kamala Harris rightly insisted that much of the country is exhausted by and ready to move on from Trump. But we deserve to move on to something better and more substantive than what Harris had to offer. “Town & Country,” our focusing on rural politics, is out now. Subscribe to…

  • ‘Poor Economics for Kids’: Nobel laureate Esther Duflo’s book for children imagines a fair world

    The book has been translated from English into five Indian languages – Bengali, Marathi, Kannada, Tamil and Hindi. Anwesha Sengupta Aug 18, 2024 · 05:30 pm Nobel laureate Esther Duflo and Cheyenne Oliver’s book for young readers, Poor Economics for Children, details the struggles of the poor of the Global South through vivid illustrations and easy-to-understand text.…

  • India’s RSS and the global far-right: Expanding links, growing ambition

    By Dipankar Bhattacharya Published 4 September, 2024 MastodonFacebookTwitterEmail First published at The Wire. Cultural nationalism, the standard RSS description of its ideology, has got a new global brand name: national conservatism. The global far-right has been trying to forge a broad ideological coalition over the last five years by holding a series of NatCon (national conservatism) conferences. The…

  • How Antonio Gramsci’s Ideas Went Global

    ByMarzia Maccaferri Antonio Gramsci was twentieth-century Italy’s greatest intellectual. Fifty years ago, the English translation of Selections from the Prison Notebooks allowed his unorthodox Marxism to spread worldwide. Antonio Gramsci needs no introduction. The anti-fascist political thinker is one of the most cited Italian authors — certainly the most cited Italian Marxist ever — and one of…

  • The wisest Indian

    André Béteille’s writings remain of enduring relevance. Readers unfamiliar with his work should begin with a collection of his newspaper articles, Chronicles of Our Time Ramachandra Guha Published 07.09.24, 07:07 AM Andre Beteille.Sourced by the Telegraph The Indian scholar I most admire, Professor André Béteille, celebrates his ninetieth birthday on September 15. Born and raised in…

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