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Advertising in the Virus Age

To borrow a phrase from the Madison Avenue ad people โ€œIn these difficult times, itโ€™s reassuring to know that we still have enough of what we need.โ€ย  Well, letโ€™s be more truthful here.ย  We may have ...

Southern Solidarity: Mutual Aid in New Orleans Amid COVID-19 Pandemic

Hard Crackers Editors

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Recently we had a chance to talk with Jasmine from Southern Solidarity, a mutual aid collective distributing food and supplies to the unhoused people of New Orleans. The COVID-19 death rate in the crescent city is ...

Crisis on top of crisis in Kensington

James Stephens

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During this COVID-19 crisis, probably many of us have had moments where we have thought, โ€œOh, shit, whatโ€™s going to happen when coronavirus spreads to (fill in the blank)? We have worried about those who fill ...

The Death President

John Garvey

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Four presidents of the United States have been assassinated: Abraham Lincoln (1864), James Garfield, William McKinley and John F. Kennedy (1963).ย  An additional fourteen presidents are considered to have been the targets of assassination attempts.ย  Keep ...

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The Guessing Game

Mike Morgan

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Every now and so often, we are reminded of how much the inexact art of prediction dominates all facets of American society. The numbers that are crunched by non-humans (computers) find their way into reports and ...

Underlying Conditions

John Garvey

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Weโ€™ve all become used to what doctors and other experts on the cable news shows sayโ€”people with underlying conditionsย are much more vulnerable to the COVID 19 virus and are in much greater danger of becoming seriously ...

Shame, Capitalism and Gay Psychology

Gus Breslauer

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Seven years ago, I met with my first gay-specialized psychologist. I was on a path of self-destruction I no longer wanted to be on, and thought this person could help. I had already been radicalized for ...

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End of a Philosophy

John Garvey

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(from the chapter with that title in Facing Reality: The New Society โ€ฆ Where to look for it, How to bring it closer, A statement for our timeโ€”by CLR James, Grace C. Lee & Pierre Chaulieu, ...

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Hard-Crackers-Issue-Four-Winter-2018

Editors’ Roundtable

Hard Crackers Editors

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The shooting at Douglas High School in Parkland prompted an exchange among our editors, which we are publishing here. To begin, three items: The first is from the Hard Crackers mission statement carried in every issue: ...

โ€œHow Karl Marx Can Save American Capitalismโ€ by Ronald W. Dworkin (Lexington Books, 2015)

Curtis Price

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Reviewed by Curtis Price โ€œEarly Marx also threatens the academy, being critical of the very professors who now stand guard over Marxian scholarship.” This unusual book (unusual because it’s written by a conservative physician and political ...

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