Recent Articles

“Nothing in Marcuse is a defense of Western society in Marxist or any other terms.” Read more.

Why did Trump & Company force regime change in Venezuela at this historical moment?  Read more.

Years ago, Woody Guthrie sang the “Hobo’s Lullaby,” lamenting:

Can’t you hear the steel rails hummin’
That’s the hobo’s lullaby

I live in New York and the other day riding home on the subway I sat across from someone well might have been a post-modern hobo. Read more.

Sin, Sex & Subversion: How What Was Taboo in 1950s New York Became America’s New Normal was published by Skyhorse/Carrel in 2016 and is nominated for the 2017 Bonnie and Vern Bullough Book Award by the Foundation for the Scientific Study of Sexuality (FSSS).

“New York is not a state capital or a national capital,” E. B. White famously wrote in 1949, “but it is by way of becoming the capital of the world.” In the ‘50s, as London, Paris, Berlin, Moscow and Tokyo recovered from a devastating war, the Big Apple became the capital of the 20^th century.

During the tumultuous 1950s, sex was as threatening to the nation’s moral order as communism and New York was the epicenter of two “wars“ — a “cold war” waged against subversion and a “hot war” against sin. Today, the once forbidden has become the new normal.