by John Garvey The New York Times recently published a profile of Saul Chandler, a seventy-year old man who now spends most of his time on a boat docked at City Island, a small sliver of land off the east coast of the Bronx. Apparently, he’s a bit of a local legend on an island […]
An excerpt from ‘If He Hollers Let Him Go,’ by Chester Himes, 1945
posted by James Murray “…but as far as the problem of the Negro industrial worker is concerned, I feel that it is not so much racial as it is the problem of the masses. As soon as the masses, including all our minority groups have achieved economic security, racial problems will reach a solution […]
Book Review: The Unknown World of the Mobile Home
“Crowded Rookeries of itinerant Flophouses”: A Review of “The Unknown World of the Mobile Home “by John Fraser Hurt, Michelle J. Rhodes and John T. Morgan (2002, Johns Hopkins University Press). by Curtis Price Here in the Deep South, trailer parks are everywhere, yet surprisingly little has been written about them. At best, trailer parks […]
Report from Boston event
We held our first Hard Crackers convening in Boston on March 4. Including a one-year-old, seventeen new and old friends of Hard Crackers attended. A Boston old-timer talked about his friends recovering from opioid addictions. A 7th and 8th grade teacher discussed her students preparing to walk out for gun control in the wake of the […]
Editors’ Roundtable
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: American society is a time-bomb where the impending explosion is endlessly hinted at by horrifying “little” degradations of daily […]
“How Karl Marx Can Save American Capitalism” by Ronald W. Dworkin (Lexington Books, 2015)
Reviewed by Curtis Price “Early 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 scientist involved with the right-wing Hudson Institute) offers a penetrating, lucid and well-documented analysis of alienation in contemporary capitalism […]