PSC still without a contract The Professional Staff Congress union, which represents faculty and staff at CUNY, has now been without a contract for almost eight moths and has still not received any kind of monetary offer from the CUNY administration. This situation has sparked marches and...
The following excerpt is Part Two of a two part series on Hugo Chávez’s Venezuela. As I argued in these pages a month ago, the truly revolutionary dimension to Hugo Chávez’s Bolivarian politics is his aggressive sponsorship of social welfare “missions” to Venezuela’s poorest...
What would happen if all graduate students, adjuncts, and other “contingent workers” at CUNY decided to withhold their labor for a week? How would CUNY continue operating if these so-called “part-timers” took a week-long work holiday? With graduate students and...
Who’s Been Sleeping in Your Head: The Secret World of Sexual Fantasies by Brett Kahr (Basic Books, 2008, 512pp) Woody Allen famously joked, “Don’t knock masturbation — it’s sex with someone I love.” British psychoanalyst Brett Kahr would likely dispute the validity of...
In Defense of Lost Causes by Slavoj Žižek (Verso Books, 2008, 208 pgs.) Jennifer Anniston is a terrorist. This is how low leftist intellectuals have sunk. Set aside for a moment what a downright silly moniker a leftist intellectual has become and instead consider this: theory-hungry...
