Marx in the Afterlife
1. According to Bob DylanOn Rough and Rowdy Ways, the album Dylan released as he turned 80, there’s a song called “My Own Version of You” in which he shows us Karl Marx burning in Hell and getting the skin...
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Manchin Family Values
“Ever since I’ve been in this position, and when I was governor, we made a point –we just didn’t...
Read MoreJAMA Editor Takes the Hit
June 5, 2021 by Fred Gardner Dr. Howard Bauchner the longtime editor-in-chief of the Journal of the American Medical Association, has agreed to resign after a JAMA podcast and the tweet publicizing it denied the reality of...
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Spiegelman in Santa Cruz
By Fred Gardner in the Anderson Valley Advertiser, April 15, 1992 Somebody in the UC Santa Cruz...
Read MoreClaud Cockburn’s ‘Double Personality’
In his autobiography, I, Claud…, Cockburn describes being recruited to write for the Daily Worker in late 1936:“It was about this time that Mr. Pollitt, Secretary of the Communist Party of Great Britain, whom I had never met,...
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