Occupy Bloomington

I have just published a short article about the Occupy movement in Bloomington, IN. You can find it here at Dissent’s website.

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Habermas: The Last European

There is a new story in Der Spiegel about Habermas and his continuing theoretical project of democratizing the European Union. All he offers is the kind of vision that a constitutional theorist is capable of formulating: The “global community” will have to sort it out. In the midst of the crisis, he still sees “the [...]

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The Future of Zuccotti Park

Michael Greenberg’s essay “Zuccotti Park: What Future?” in the New York Review is worth reading. Although it was written prior to the park’s eviction, Greenberg touches on a number of important issues and tensions that will determine how successful Occupy Wall Street can become.

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A Long-Term Strategy for OWS?

Occupy Wall Street is at a defining crossroads barely two months after coming into existence. As more mayors across the U.S. follow Mike Bloomberg’s precedent in evicting OWS encampments from public spaces in an attempt to reassert control over the demonstrators, participants will have to come together and begin outlining a long-term strategy. Up till [...]

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Tony Judt: A Revaluation

Dylan Riley, Associate Professor of Sociology at Berkeley, has published a very good piece in the last New Left Review on Tony Judt. Riley surveys Judt’s intellectual development, from his early works as a historian of the French left to his later fame as an essayist for the New York Review of Books and author of Postwar. [...]

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In Print

I found out recently that one of my old articles for Dissent is being re-published in an upcoming volume on Russian politics. It is going by the straightforward title “Politics in Russia: A Reader,” is edited by Joel Ostrow of Benedictine University, and includes contributions from the late Anna Politkovskaya, as well as scholars of [...]

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A Much Needed Update

It has been almost a year since I last updated this blog. I have had to stop for a while because the time constraints of grad school and other professional commitments left me with little energy to update. My last post before this hiatus briefly discussed the uprising in Tunisia that sparked the Arab Spring. [...]

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