I don't think it's by accident that I was first attracted to translating two French women poets.
In short, the elimination of the financial legacy of Reaganomics could force the United States to make some exceptionally difficult choices indeed.
The core of the Marxist critique of capitalism is that although the individual capitalist is rational (as liberals assume), the capitalist system itself is irrational.
The competitive nation-state system, with all its capacity for good and evil, is spreading in the Third World and is transforming that world.
These two opposed forms of social organization, the modern state and the market, have evolved together through recent centuries, and their mutual interactions have become increasingly crucial to the character and dynamics of international relations in our world.
One reason for the primacy of the market in shaping the modern world is that it forces a reorganization of society in order to make the market work properly. When a market comes into existence, as Marx fully appreciated, it becomes a potent force driving social change.
The parallel existence and mutual interaction of "state" and "market" in the modern world create "political economy"; without both state and market there could be no political economy.
From its earliest days, stem cell research has been important to the people of Wisconsin.
I think good books have to make a few people angry.
I base my track-listing and what songs I pick by what my fans expect from me and what they want and what I think they want.
Jesus's first temptation was to be relevant: to turn stones into bread. Oh, how often I wished I could do that!