Browsing All Posts By James Livingston
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Introduction to Issue #15
Welcome to Issue # 15 of POLITICS/LETTERS. We’re going through some changes here, but we’ll come out ahead. Just not of ourselves. We lead with Nancy Fraser’s presidential ...
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Book Review 0
Our Benevolent Feudalism
Elizabeth Anderson, Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don’t Talk about It). Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017. 144 pp., plus commentary, notes, and index. ...
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Liberal Racism
As some of you know, the Human Resources department at Rutgers used my Facebook posts of late May and early June to convict me of violating the university’s ...
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Introduction to Issue #13
Here’s the new Quarterly, #13. To me, it reads as a series of reports from far afield—a kind of foreign correspondence. We begin with M. J. Andersen’s remembrance ...
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Introduction to Issue #12
At the heart of this new issue are three astonishing essays, by Philip Polefrone, Stephen Clingman, and Sean McCann. Each in their own way, they’re “reviews,” ways of ...
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Finance Politics
Paul Krugman’s recent column in the Times illuminates the central forces and salient features of late capitalism, not just the digital kind. He doesn’t acknowledge that these forces and ...
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Introduction to Issue #11
Herewith is Issue #11 of Politics/Letters. We’re on a roll. The uncanny thematic of this new issue is, according to my deeply biased reading, a meditation on where ...
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Introduction to Issue #10
Herewith Issue # 10 of our little magazine, the quarterly version. As you know by now, P/L Live is our faster side. Here we run longer pieces—not slower, ...
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Worlds Collide: A Play in Four Acts
Historical Note: The meeting of these minds is my creation, a fiction, but the four main characters were, in fact, contemporaries who knew and loved Rome in the ...
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Introduction to Issue #2
Well, it’s been a while. We thought we’d have this issue out in December, but new circumstances intervened. Still, it’s an exciting set of essays, videos, comics, and ...
