Paul Street

Paul Street’s latest book is This Happened Here: Amerikaners, Neoliberals, and the Trumping of America (London: Routledge, 2022).

A Happy Response to Ross Douthat on “the Left,” Pessimism, Coates, and Marxism

Two Stupid Titles, a Deflating Anthology, and the Remarkable Persistence of Academic Fascism Denial

Reflections on Gaza, “Empire,” and Who and What is Breaking the World

Appeasement and Missed Chances: Nightmare Notes from Weimar Amerika

This is Joe Biden: Repolarization Anyone?

It’s All Over Now, Biden Blue: It’s the Whole Damn System

500,000 Dead and Maimed in Ukraine, Enough Already

The U.S. Bourgeois Democracy Farewell Tour

The Atlantic’s Special Issue on “If Trump Wins”: A Radical Critique

Biden’s Next Big Imperialist Climate Fail

Adolph Trump and Genocide Joe: Race, Blood, Vermin, and Weimar

Will Bourgois Law and Electoral Politics Really Save Us from (the) Fascist Creep?

The Four Horsemen of the Capitalist-Imperialist Apocalypse

Frank Bruni  Discovers Donald Trump’s “Budding” Fascism…in the Late Fall of 2023!

We Can Do This But Not Under Capitalism

The Republi-Fascist Specter Looms

Shit is Out Da Box: Mass Death, Catastrophe, War, Genocide, and Fascism Normalized

Let’s Stop Being Surprised at what Capitalism Has Wrought

Empire Joe Biden Gaslighting in Tel Aviv

Manufacturing Consent: The Western War Media’s Selective Outrage and Imperial Amnesia

Obama’s Fake Concern for Autoworkers and the 2009 Bailout

Too Bourgeois: Jeff Goodell’s “The Heat Will Kill You First”

The Chicago Non-Defender’s Cowardly Cuddle with Anti-Communist Cancel Culture

Two Clarifications on What it Means to Meaningfully Refuse American Fascism

“Something Else Was Needed”

America’s Proto-Fascist Red Scare of 1917-21

“The System is Working”? The Latest Trump Indictments and Continuing Existential Threats

The Center Cannot Hold

No Time to Celebrate: Trump Can Survive the Indictments

On the Red (Brown) and the Blue: Against “Left” Secessionism

Donald Trump Wants to Deport US Marxists “That Grew Up Here”

“Not Big on Abortion:” Joe Biden Pretends to be in the Vanguard of the Struggle Against Forced Motherhood

Look at Homo Sapiens on the Run in the 2020s

Two-Tiered Justice?

No Choice but to Indict Trump: Why a Gentlemen’s Agreement Had to be Broken

The Lame Left: Eight Afflictions*

Disturbing Revelations: Ron DeSantis’ Plans for “Dachau Disney”

The Continuing Carnage in Ukraine

Cave Man Joe: On Hollow Resistance to Fascism and Other Existential Menaces*

“Court Reform” or Popular Revolution, a New Constitution, and a Socialist Supreme Court?

Travels Through “the Trumpocene”: Jeff Sharlet’s Dark Take on Our Fascist “Condition”

“You Can Do Anything”: Trump, Rape, Fascism, and the Ruling Class

“Not Even a Win”: The Malevolent and Misogynist Mifepristone Mess Moved to May

Carnage: Guns and Fascism in Armed Madhouse Amerika

Why the Republi-Fascists Can’t Stop Calling the Capitalist Democrats “Marxists”

“We’ll Show’em at the Ballot Box”: The Mifepristone Mess and the Dismal Judas Goat Dems

Bad Thinking: Left, Center, and Right*

Lawlessness in the Name of Law and Order

Novel Reflections: On Dickens, Marx, Bronte, Zola, Bernie, and Orwell

Lost and Found: The Republicans Haven’t Lost Their Conservative Minds