Paul’s Articles
A listing of original articles by Paul Street, also published in other sites as noted.
Beyond Twelve Years a Slave
Black Agenda Report, March 11, 2015 I am never more than slightly encouraged about white America’s capacity for breaking from the United States’ deeply embedded racism when I hear one of my fellow US Caucasians [...]
The Ruling Class Never Lost Its Way – or Its Power
TeleSur English, March 10, 2015 “Sun-Washed” Days Former New York Times columnist Bob Herbert’s recent book Losing Our Way: An Intimate Portrait of a Troubled America (New York: Doubleday, 2014) is one of many recent [...]
Capitalist Cotton Slavery and a Case (One Would Think) for Reparations
TeleSur English, February 28, 2015 Edward E. Baptist, The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Rise of American Capitalism (New York: Basic Books, 2014). I’ve never quite been a fan of the United States cultural [...]
What’s the Matter With Thomas Frank?
ZNet, February 28, 2015. It’s an odd and perhaps usefully ego-deflating sensation to feel invisible, in my case to write books and essays and give speeches and talks that can seem like they never existed, [...]