Gary Leupp

Gary Leupp is Emeritus Professor of History at Tufts University, and is the author of Servants, Shophands and Laborers in in the Cities of Tokugawa JapanMale Colors: The Construction of Homosexuality in Tokugawa Japan; and Interracial Intimacy in Japan: Western Men and Japanese Women, 1543-1900 and coeditor of The Tokugawa World (Routledge, 2021). He is a contributor to Hopeless: Barack Obama and the Politics of Illusion, (AK Press). He can be reached at: gleupp@tufts.edu

“A Plague On Both Your Houses”

Talking Points for the “End the Shutdown” Protesters

Could COVID-19 Kill Capitalism?

Bloomberg Versus Bernie: The Upcoming Battle?

Gramsci and You: an Open Letter to Mayor Pete

Talking Points For News Anchors Against Sanders

NATO and the Impeachment Trial

Main Result of Soleimani Assassination: the Movement to Expel U.S. Forces

The Assassination of Gen. Qasem Soleimani

The Main Result of the Impeachment Process

Ukraine: Ten Talking Points for Rational People

Which Is Worse? Trying to Get Ukraine into NATO, or Trying to Use Ukraine to Reelect Trump?

The Kurds as U.S. Sacrificial Lambs

The Maria Ramirez Story

Zelensky’s Capitulation and Trump’s Open Appeals for Foreign Help on Biden Dirt

Impeachment Proceedings and the Democrats’ Enduring Russophobia

Warren’s Ethnic Issue Should Not Go Away

Senator Cotton on the Need to Buy Greenland

“Based on the Fact She Won’t Sell Me Greenland, I’m Staying Home”

MSNBC and the Next Election: Racism is the Issue (and Don’t Talk about Socialism)

Mass-Shootings as Expressions of U.S. Racism

Trump vs. the Squad, or the Fascist Use of Zionism

Marx on Children (and on Forgiving Christianity)

Minnesota, White People, Lutherans and Ilhan Omar

Omar and Trump

Epstein, Jane Doe, and Trump

What Right Has Britain to Seize an Iranian Tanker Off Spain?

Thoughts on the Impromptu Kim-Trump Summit

Japanese and German Doubts on U.S. Drumbeat Towards Iran War

Marx and Walking Zen

Japanese and German Doubts on U.S. Iran War Drumbeat

Joe Biden, Opportunist, Insincere Catholic

“Escalating Tensions” with Iran

Bolton and the Road to the War He Wants

Sri Lanka, ISIL and Religious Tribalism

Time for Trump to Talk to Putin

Head Kissing: An Issue for Our Times

The Sounds of Silence

“It’s All About the Benjamins, Baby”

Explaining Virginia’s Crisis (to Japanese People)

The Chickens Come Home to Roost….in Northern Syria

No Reason to Oppose Trump’s Withdrawal from Syria

Sentinelese Islanders Reject Jesus, Shoot Missionary Dead on Beach

Whitewashing Murder is Simply Wrong

“Maybe He Did, and Maybe He Didn’t:” Reflections on Morality in 2018

Europe and Secondary Iran Sanctions: Where Do We Go Now?

How the World Sees the Caravan

Notes on Antisemitism

Will Trump Split the World by Endorsing a Bold-Faced Lie?

The Khashoggi Affair and and the Anti-Iran Axis