I am about to go on vacation,and will be offline for a good while. Before vanishing, I wanted to send around links to a few -- if by no means all -- of my recent pieces. Other work is underway that should appear this fall in Dissent, The Nation, International Socialist Review, New Politics, Democracy, and Barnes and Noble Review. (Hence the need for a vacation.)
Published just today are this review of David Harvey's book on cosmopolitanism and my column from IHE on Tzvetan Todorov's pamphlet on torture and the "war on terror":
http://www.bookforum.com/inprint/016_03/4337
http://www.insidehighered.com/views/mclemee/mclemee257
My first piece for the cultural supplement of the Abu Dhabi paper The National looks at an anthropological description of life on Wall Street:
http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090828/REVIEW/708279966/1093/ART
An essay on the cultural prehistory of last month's town-hall insanity was denounced by one person as so much "leftist rederick." (I am not making that up.) Witness my redorickal efforts here:
http://www.insidehighered.com/views/mclemee/mclemee255
What do crime, business, and academia have in common? See this column, which seems to have generated a bit more traffic than usual:
http://www.insidehighered.com/views/mclemee/mclemee256
Finally, some video. Here I am talking about C.L.R. James at the Socialism '09 conference in Chicago, mid-June:
Also, next month I will be speaking during the Obermann Humanities Symposium (Iowa City) and the Northeast Socialist Conference (NYC). It would be good to see any of you who happen to be in either place.
http://www.uiowa.edu/obermann/platformsforpublicscholars/index.html
http://www.northeastsocialistconference.net/