There is, we are told, no ethical consumption under capitalism, and so it is. Any participation in a system of exploitation is exploitative, and one cannot engage in even the simplest acts of daily survival without being, in some way, complicit with the cruelty and destruction that the system is …
When one mask comes off, others start to follow, and in quick order. America’s rightward turn, its fascist lean, is finding allies everywhere; if they are not necessarily ideological allies, they are at least opportunistic ones. So it is that many of the country’s biggest and most rapacious corporations have …
Our wars are never just; our heroes are never pure. Paul Fussell, whose service in the American infantry during the Second World War defined his entire life and work, understood this. He wrote that all wars are ironic because the distance between the reasons for fighting them and the things …
