I just heard this interview with attorney Clarence Jones discussing his new book Behind The Dream about helping draft the speech that would become I Have A Dream. I know MLK day was yesterday, but I’m celebrating him all week. Photo by Richard Avedon of MLK with his father and son in Atlanta, Georgia.
Category Archives: Politics
Book-Nerd Porn
October 25, 2010 – 5:19 pm
I’m kind of obsessed with The Penguin Great Ideas series and sad to report that they have just announced the end of this collection. I’m not sure what is better: the well-edited selection or the graphic design, which is total book porn. The slim volumes of important historical essays concerning politics, philosophy, nature, sex, science, [...]
Alice Walker’s Garden
May 14, 2010 – 3:25 pm
I know Alice Walker won the Pulitzer for her fiction, but I’m all about her essays and her poems. I’m particularly obsessed with her womanist essays from the 1970′s. She is rad for so many reasons that I can’t begin to mention here, if you’re curious about the amazing life she has led go to [...]
Sherman Alexie in NYC
April 22, 2010 – 9:51 am
As part of the PEN World Voices Festival, recent PEN winner and National Book Award Winner (as well as Dossier contributor) Sherman Alexie is lecturing at Cooper Union on May 2nd about the future of books in the digital age and the many threats the book industry faces. He has chosen not to let his [...]
Review: Nina Power’s One Dimensional Woman
January 19, 2010 – 9:03 am
One of the most interesting demi-myths of contemporary politics concerns neoconservatism as an intellectual movement and its rumoured leftist heritage. Oft commented upon, the Trotskyist origins of some of its early thinkers (Irving Kristol, James Burnham), and an apparent debt displayed in its evangelical policies of aggressively exported global ideological revolution, meant that for disillusioned [...]
The Coming Insurrection – A Point of Clarification
August 27, 2009 – 1:07 pm
The following text is the introduction to The Invisible Committee’s The Coming Insurrection, published this month by Semiotext(e) and available online as a pdf. The book was originally published in France following the riots in the Parisian suburbs, and across Europe, in 2005. Almost two months ago we posted an incredible clip of Glenn Beck of [...]
Review: The Meaning of Sarkozy by Alain Badiou
July 29, 2009 – 2:28 am
There is a moment in The Meaning of Sarkozy when prominent French philosopher Alain Badiou brings up Sarkozy’s critique of May 1968 in France. Sarkozy famously argued that the radical movement blurred the lines between good and evil; to Badiou, however, May 1968 is notable for clearly articulating differences between good and evil. This book [...]
