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Radical Finance for America’s Schools w/ David I. BackerRadical Finance for America’s Schools w/ David I. BackerWe are joined by David I. Backer, associate professor of education policy at Seton Hall University, to discuss his new book: As Public as Possible: Radical Finance for America’s Schools (The New Press, 2025). The right-wing attack on education has cut deep. In response, millions of Americans have rallied to defend their cherished public schools. Backer’s incisive book asks whether choosing between our embattled status quo and the stingy privatized vision of the right is the only path forward.
John Bellamy Foster, “Breaking the Bonds of Fate” (Book Launch)John Bellamy Foster, “Breaking the Bonds of Fate” (Book Launch)The immanent dialectic of the ancient Greek materialist philosopher, Epicurus (341-270 BCE), helped inspire the nineteenth-century ideas of Karl Marx, forming the subject of his doctoral dissertation.
Trump’s New Monroe Doctrine Is MAGA Imperialism: An Interview with John Bellamy FosterTrump’s New Monroe Doctrine Is MAGA Imperialism: An Interview with John Bellamy FosterThis is the second part of a two-part interview with Monthly Review editor John Bellamy Foster for Italy’s OttolinaTV. Watch the first part here.
Why MAGA Is Not Working Class: An Interview with John Bellamy FosterWhy MAGA Is Not Working Class: An Interview with John Bellamy FosterMonthly Review editor John Bellamy Foster was recently interviewed on Italy’s OttolinaTV. Read the accompanying note below, and watch a video of the conversation here. In this first part of a two-part interview with Prof. John Bellamy Foster, we analyze the MAGA phenomenon from a materialist perspective, highlighting the main social composition of the classes […]
Notes from the Editors – December 2025 (Volume 77, Number 7)Notes from the Editors – December 2025 (Volume 77, Number 7)It is widely understood today that the United States is confronted with a pervasive neofascist threat. Evidence of this is visible now throughout society, not least of all in Donald Trump’s White House itself.
