JUNE 2024 – JANUARY 2026
Becca Rothfeld’s “Listless Liberalism” and Liberal Ideology

January 2026

“sharp as steel with discontent”
The Poetry, Prose, and Politics of Claude McKay

COUPS of sovereign leaders by America
by the CIA, the US military, and its proxies – a partial list since the 1950s

December 2025
Left-Wing Magazines — 1895-1948
The Left-Wing Journals and Fiction of the Socialist Era in America

The Ghost of Edward de Vere Rises for the Truth

Liberation Lit – The Anthology

The Third Great Age of Letters
This Epoch of Literature & Its High Tech Birthquake

November 2025
Let us not talk kindly now, for the hour it grows late

And the Future of Epic Imaginative Writing

October 2025
Going Nuclear with Kathryn Bigelow

Undiplomatic Thoughts about The Diplomat
Cultural Death by Capitalist TV

Epic Stories Are Monuments To Sanity In A Mad World

The Power of Propaganda in Fiction
Modern Book Bans vs. Nadine Gordimer, Upton Sinclair, Victor Hugo, Shakespeare

A Stoner Dad and Murderous Sheriff Go To War
Eddington Versus One Battle After Another

September 2025
Insane Fantasies More Real Than Reality

Cultural Death By Capitalist Cinema

The Revolution Will Not Be Romantic
It Will Be Populist — It Already Is

Fight Fire with Fire — Dr. Stacey Patton Lights It Up

Notes in Relation to Story and to John Pistelli’s novels Major Arcana and The Class of 2000

Alecta Speaks — Get Your Money Back!
A Progressive Populist President And A Revolutionary Appeal

August 2025

The Basis for Revolution in Culture, Consciousness, and Story
Notes on Literary Lines and Revolutionary Populism

Necessary Lies — Imperial Lies — That No One, Not Even The Empire, Cares If You Believe
4 Notes On The Post-Orwellian Genocide — And Implications For Journalism And Story

July 2025
Up from Culture in the Age of Three Worlds by Michael Denning

Bad As The Apolitical — Or Worse

8 Notes on Politics, Science, and Lit

June 2025
The Personal and the Political

May 2025
The Lit Bros Rediscover Identity Politics

Imaginative Writers Must Intervene Directly and Explicitly in the Day
A Call for Revolutionary Art and Culture

The Politics and Art of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez & A Manifesto on Art and Consciousness

No Default to The Default World by Naomi Kanakia

April 2025
The Great Gatsby and Imperial Culture

The Revolutionary Novels of André Vltchek

March 2025
The Literary Populism of Tamara Pearson
An Interview with Tamara Pearson about Her Novel The Eyes of the Earth

The Eyes of the Earth — a Novel — by Tamara Pearson
Literary Populism in a Momentous Novel

January 2025
“Orwell’s Problem” & AI Meet the Shakespeare Identity Question
Everything Fits & Nothing Fits

The Revolutionary Moment in the Day & Novel

In A Potentially Terminal Age — The Problem And Promise of Nancy Drew

December 2024
Refaat Alareer’s “If I Must Die”
Literature In This Endlessly Grim But Determinedly Hopeful Age


November 2024
Bernie Calls for a Progressive Populist Overthrow of the Establishment

And Be Joyful About It – With a Side of Genocide

September 2024
Con Don, The Con Dems, and The Left
The Lesson of Jesse Jackson and Bernie Sanders

August 2024
The Fraudulent Regional National Election

The Novel Against The Empire Of Lies

July 2024
Breakthroughs, Consciousness, and Revolution

June 2024
Brief Notes On Basic Story – A Story Toolkit for Authors & Creators

May 2024
