Issue 15
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Editorial Note 0Introduction to Issue #15
Welcome to Issue # 15 of POLITICS/LETTERS. We’re going through some changes here, but we’ll come out ahead. Just ...
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Essay 0Is Capitalism Necessarily Racist?
Presidential Address delivered at the one hundred fourteenth Eastern Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association in Savannah, GA, ...
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Essay 0Capitalism, Racism and Totality: A Response to Nancy Fraser
Thank you, Professor Fraser, for being here, and for such a stimulating paper. What I appreciated most was its ...
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Essay 0A Response to Nancy Fraser
There is no history of capitalism without a history of racism. But what is the specific relationship between racism ...
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Essay 0The Answer Is No: A Response to Nancy Fraser
The answer is no. Capitalism has been racist, yes, of course. History is unequivocal. There could have been no ...
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Book Review 0Our Benevolent Feudalism
Elizabeth Anderson, Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don’t Talk about It). Princeton: Princeton University ...
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Essay 0On Refugee Literature and the Art of Giving a Fuck
A bestselling 2016 blog-book bears the title: “The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck”. The title has undoubtedly ...
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Essay 0Zanzibar in Ivoryton
There is a small detail near the ending of Conrad’s Heart of Darkness that in the midst of the ...
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Book Review 0Figures of Catastrophe
Francis Mulhern, Figures of Catastrophe: The Condition of Culture Novel (London and New York: Verso, 2016). In 1843 Thomas ...
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Essay 0Setting a course for Fairness: the Spanish Elections
Watching the results of the General Elections come in on the evening April 28th was a matter of watching ...
