Paul’s Articles
A listing of original articles by Paul Street, also published in other sites as noted.
Public Safety Is None of Your Business
Truthdig, 3/20/2018 World peace is none of your business You must not tamper with arrangements Work hard and simply pay your taxes Never asking what for Oh, you poor little fool Oh, you fool World [...]
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 [...]