Socialist Survivalism: A Democracy Beyond Democracy I. Three Fateful Ironies of Democracy We often hear it reported that in some benighted countries the people believe that “Democracy is a nice… Read more »

Welp, there’s good news and there’s bad news. The good news: an end to the raging dumpster fire that has been the 2016 election is finally almost here — just a week… Read more »

Listen, we agree that it’s strange, but the fact remains that Donald Trump’s presidential campaign continues unabated. For as long as that’s true, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and longtime Trump follower David Cay… Read more »

It’s been a confounding week to be paying attention to Donald Trump’s campaign for the presidency. However well it has been established that Trump deviates from the behavior expected of candidates—and it… Read more »

If you’re a regular reader of MobyLives, the name Robert Barnett should ring a bell. And if it doesn’t, here are some other names that will perhaps sound more familiar:… Read more »

The publishing industry has many unsung heroes, but some of the most unsung, and the most heroic, are the people that have to come up with titles of political memoirs.… Read more »

When you read David Streitfeld’s “Literary Lions” piece in The New York Times early this week, you may have noticed certain little aside before Salon and the Huffington Post jumped on… Read more »