Public Essays

Capitalism’s Court Jester: Slavoj Žižek.” CounterPunch (January 2, 2023). Translated into Spanish (part 1 / part 2; also here), French, Turkish, Arabic, Romanian, Persian, Chinese.

The CIA & the Frankfurt School’s Anti-Communism.” Los Angeles Review of Books, “The Philosophical Salon” (June 27, 2022). This article was translated into Hindi, Spanish (also here), Romanian, Turkish, Chinese, Persian and French.

Nazis in Ukraine: Seeing through the Fog of the Information War.” Liberation News (March 30, 2022). Re-posted on Monthly Review Online. Translated into Spanish and French.

Lessons from January 6th: An Inside Job.” CounterPunch (February 18, 2022).

Fascist Plots in the US: Contemporary Lessons from the 1934 ‘Business Plot.’” Liberation School (July 6, 2021).

Foucault, Anti-Communism & the Global Theory Industry: A Reply to Critics.” Los Angeles Review of Books, “The Philosophical Salon” (February 1, 2021). This article was translated into Turkish.

Liberalism & Fascism: The Good Cop & Bad Cop of Capitalism.” Black Agenda Report (October 21, 2020).

The U.S. Did Not Defeat Fascism in WWII, It Discretely Internationalized It.” CounterPunch (October 16, 2020). This article was translated into French and Spanish.

Liberalism and Fascism: Partners in Crime.” CounterPunch (October 14, 2020). This article was translated into Spanish.

Fascism: Now You See It, Now You Don’t!CounterPunch (October 12, 2020). This article was translated into Spanish.

Foucault: The Faux Radical.” Los Angeles Review of Books, “The Philosophical Salon” (October 12, 2020). This article was translated into Spanish (another version is available here) and Turkish.

Understanding France’s General Strike in the Context of the Yellow Vests and Global Class Warfare.” CounterPunch (January 13, 2020).

The Failure of the French Intelligentsia? Intellectuals and Uprisings in the Case of the Yellow Vests.” Los Angeles Review of Books, “The Philosophical Salon” (April 29, 2019). This article was translated into German and Persian.

Spectacular Violence as a Weapon of War against the Yellow Vests.” CounterPunch (March 22, 2019). This article was written with the collective RED and republished here. It was translated into French and Russian.

Is May 1968 About to Happen Again, or Be Surpassed? Mass Strikes, Occupations and the Fight for the Future Perfect in France.” CounterPunch (April 13, 2018). This article was republished with videos and photographs here on RED. It was translated into Persian.

Academic Black Shirts Brutally Assault Students in France.” CounterPunch (March 26, 2018). This article was republished with videos and photographs here on RED.

The U.S. Is Not a Democracy, It Never Was.” CounterPunch (December 13, 2017). This article was translated into FrenchSpanish & Persian.

L’Antifa outre-Atlantique.” Mediapart (September 18, 2017).

Co-authored with Ramona E. Durán. “It’s Time to Get Violence: Breaking Down the Assault on Antifa.” CounterPunch (September 7, 2017).

Co-authored with John-Patrick Schultz. “Who’s Afraid of Direct Action on Campus? Mobilizing Pedagogy Against the Powerful.” Truthout (August 23, 2017).

Free Speech Is Not the Issue; Intellectual Power Is.” CounterPunch (April 5, 2017).

The CIA Reads French Theory: On the Intellectual Labor of Dismantling the Cultural Left.” Los Angeles Review of Books, “The Philosophical Salon” (February 27, 2017). This article was translated into Arabic, PortugueseSpanishTurkishFrench, Persian, GreekKurdish & Bulgarian.

Unraveling Love Stories.” The New York Times, “The Stone” (February 13, 2017).

Vive l’anti-colonialisme américain !” Mediapart (December 3, 2016).

What Is to Be Done when Empire Is Trumped?” CounterPunch (November 25, 2016).

Why We Never Die.” The New York Times, “The Stone” (August 29, 2016). This article was translated into Chinese.

What Is to Be Done, with Theory?” Edinburgh University Press Blog (July 15, 2016).

Is Censorship Proof of Art’s Political Power?Los Angeles Review of Books, “The Philosophical Salon” (June 6, 2016). Forthcoming in Michael Marder and Patricia Vieira, eds., The Philosophical Salon: Speculations, Reflections, Interventions (Open Humanities Press).

Corporate Idiocracy and the Manufacturing of ProducTrump.” CounterPunch (May 16, 2016). Reprinted here with very minor changes by The Huffington Post (August 11, 2016).

Media Blackout on Nuit Debout.” CounterPunch (May 6, 2016). Translated into Persian and published in Shargh Newspaper on two pages available here and here.

Revolution Never Sleeps: Nuit Debout in France and Beyond.” CounterPunch (April 15-17, 2016). Translated into Persian and published in Shargh Newspaper here.

La France au carrefour du Diable. Ne suivons pas la voie impitoyable des Etats-Unis dans la guerre sans fin.” Mediapart (November 21, 2015).

Western Nations: Beacons of Hope or Sources of Destruction?” Truthout (September 24, 2015). Picked up and published here by Common Dreams. Translated into Persian and published in Shargh Newspaper here.

In collaboration with others: “310 universitaires militent pour le droit du travail en prison” Le monde (September 14, 2015).

In collaboration with Pierre-Antoine Chardel, Robert Harvey, et alii: “Lettre ouverte aux membres du Conseil constitutionnel.” Le monde (July 19, 2015 / modified version), Mediapart (July 20, 2015), Rue89 (July 21, 2015) et Nextinpact (July 20, 2015).

L’Amérique en noir et blanc.” Libération (June 28, 2015).

Co-founder and regular contributor to Occupy Philly:  Machete (fall 2011-spring 2012).

In collaboration with the Machete Group:  “The Intention of the Unintentional.”  Shifter 18 (spring 2012):  35-44.

“Immanence and Intervention:  Rethinking Art and Politics.”  Chronicles of Dissent (Exhibition Catalogue).  Philadelphia: Marginal Utility Gallery, 2012.

Co-founder and regular contributor to Occupy Philly:  Machete (fall 2011-spring 2012).

In collaboration with the Machete Group:  “Invisible Bridge,” a contribution to the catalogue for the exhibit “Shoot the Moon” organized by Jonathan Thomas at 1419 Gallery, Minneapolis, MN (September 2010).

Co-founder, columnist and regular contributor to Machete, a monthly newspaper on art and politics with a penchant for pseudonyms (September 2009-October 2010).