Paul’s Articles
A listing of original articles by Paul Street, also published in other sites as noted.
The Obama Presidency Gets Some Early High Historiography
Counterpunch, 3/16/2018 Julian Zelizer, ed., The Presidency of Barack Obama: A First Historical Assessment (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, March 13, 2018). The Old Over the New Professional historians are a conservative crew (with a nice number [...]
Me Orange Hulk! On Managing a Child President
Counterpunch, 3/9/2018 El Presidente needs to feel strong and liked. He wants to feel like a popular man of independent action. He doesn’t like feeling weak and hated, like a hemmed-in punk and loser. He [...]
Review Essay: Assessing High Historians’ Early Assessment of Obama
Julian Zelizer, ed., The Presidency of Barack Obama: A First Historical Assessment (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, March 13, 2018) A somewhat shorter version of this review appeared at the New York Journal of Books [...]
Notes on Terminology
Counterpunch, 3/9/2018 Climate Crisis, Not “Climate Change” My next-to-last CounterPunch essay (“Someone Tell a Reporter: the Rich Are Destroying the Earth”) elicited a smart criticism from a senior scientist: “Please stop using the phrase ‘climate change.’ I am a [...]