Loren Goldner, David Harvey, Andrew Kliman, and Paul Mattick   Platypus Review 56 | May 2013 Last autumn, chapters of the Platypus Affiliated Society in New York, London, and Chicago hosted similar events on the theme of “Radical Interpretations of the Present Crisis.” The speakers participating in New York included Loren Goldner, David Harvey, Andrew Kliman, and [...]

Thomas Seibert, Norbert Trenkle, Daniel Loick, and Janine Wissler    Platypus Review 55 | April 2013   Last summer, the Frankfurt chapter of the Platypus Affiliated Society hosted the latest iteration of “The 3Rs: Reform, Revolution, and Resistance,” a series of events for which speakers were invited to reflect on the contemporary state of anti-capitalist [...]

Hillel Ticktin, Saul Newman, David Graeber, and James Woudhuysen Platypus Review 55 | April 2013 Last autumn, chapters of the Platypus Affiliated Society in New York, London, and Chicago hosted similar events on the theme of “Radical Interpretations of the Present Crisis.” The speakers participating in London included David Graeber, Saul Newman, Hillel Ticktin, and James [...]

Ross Wolfe Platypus Review 54 | March 2013 On October 13th, 2012, Ross Wolfe of the Platypus Affiliated Society interviewed Jodi Dean, Professor of Political Science at Hobart and William Smith College, and author of The Communist Horizon (New York: Verso, 2012). What follows is an edited transcript of their conversation.  Ross Wolfe: Your new book, The [...]

Spencer A. Leonard Platypus Review 53 | February 2013 Spencer A. Leonard interviewed noted Civil War historian James McPherson, author of the classic Battle Cry of Freedom (1988), to discuss the new Lincoln biopic by Steven Spielberg and the 150 th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. The interview was broadcast on January 29, 2013 on the [...]