Paul’s Articles
A listing of original articles by Paul Street, also published in other sites as noted.
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, [...]
The Moral Autism of the Brian Williams Affair
TeleSur English, February 21, 2015. Through much of 2002 and into the spring of 2003, the United States corporate media helped the George W. Bush administration and the bipartisan Washington war lobby sell fateful lies [...]