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A History of Capitalism in Palo Alto: An Interview With Malcolm Harris
Wendy Liu is the author of Abolish Silicon Valley: How to Liberate Technology from Capitalism. She lives in San Francisco and is working on a novel. The following is an interview with Malcolm Harris, author of ...
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A Small Slice of Private Life
For a few years in the late 1970s and early 1980s, I had the good fortune to be in a relationship with Clem Maharaj, a former jazz drummer from Trinidad whose mother had taken the precaution ...
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Let the Blood Moon Shine
Review of When the Moon Turns to Blood by Leah Sottile Twelve Books, 2022, $15.99 – 320 pages Over a decade ago, I came across a fascinating story about whom Vice News had dubbed the “Mormon ...
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Nightmares of Christmas Past
What do we appreciate about the work of Charles Dickens? Dickens wrote fantastic, unbelievable stories about everyday urban life and social reality in the Victorian England hellscape. He used the lives of women and children (and ...
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“The Monster is Actually the Police”: A Discussion with Travis Linnemann
We sat down with Travis Linnemann, a professor of sociology at Kansas State University and a distinguished cultural critic, to discuss his provocative research into the supposed meth epidemic and the ongoing humanitarian disaster of policing ...
Announcing Treason to Whiteness is Loyalty to Humanity: A Noel Ignatiev Reader
June 28th marks the release of the new book Treason to Whiteness is Loyalty to Humanity! We are excited about this book, as it is a collection of writings by Hard Crackers founder and editor Noel ...
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Listen: I Want To Believe Author A.M. Gittlitz Live in Chicago
On Friday, May 27th, Hard Crackers editor Jarrod Shanahan hosted author and Antifada host A.M. Gittlitz for a lively discussion of the latter’s book I Want To Believe (Pluto Press, 2020) at Pilsen Community Books in ...
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Fighting Books for a New Fighting Generation
We recently sat down with four of the people involved in the revitalization of the Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company to talk about the re-emergence of the company, the new books that have either just been ...
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“Like Hell on Earth:” former steelworker shares reflections, reviews Finally Got the News and Noel Ignatiev’s Acceptable Men
My friend Bill retired to Bisbee after working in the Detroit steel mills for decades. When I got my copy of Noel Ignatiev’s Acceptable Men: Life in the Largest Steel Mill in the World, I shared ...
Returning to Lovecraft
“That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange aeons even death may die.” — H.P.L. NOTE: Contains minor spoilers. Don’t get me wrong — I used to devour books and enjoyed other genres besides ...
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