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Adam Morris

Adam Morris is a writer and translator living in San Francisco. Recent essays and translations have appeared in BOMB, n+1, The Point, and The Believer. He is author of American Messiahs: False Prophets of a Damned Nation (Liveright, 2019).

Articles

Lasch, Rehashed: On Helen Andrews’s “Boomers”
Adam Morris on “Boomers” by Helen Andrews....
Adam MorrisMay 31, 2021
- Politics and Economics
The Person Formerly Known as Jemima Wilkinson
An excerpt from a new book on American messianic movements....
Adam MorrisMar 26, 2019
- History
- Religion
After the Facts
What can a 1957 Katharine Hepburn-Spencer Tracy movie tell us about the fate of middle-class jobs?...
Adam MorrisMay 11, 2017
The “System Change” Doctrine
Naomi Klein issues a call to arms for “System Change, not Climate Change.”...
Adam MorrisOct 21, 2014
- Politics and Economics
FALLOUT: The Geopolitics of the Snowden Files
ON JULY 2 LAST YEAR, the governments of Portugal, France, Italy, and Spain bowed to US orders and refused airspace to the plane carrying Bolivian president Evo Morales. He’d been traveling from Russia to South America until his presidential jet ...
Adam MorrisApr 20, 2014
Disobedience & Miseducation: Occupy and the Academy
Can protest and civil disobedience still change an entrenched American way of life? Academics are looking to the Occupy movement for answers....
Adam MorrisJan 28, 2014
Democracy – What Is It Good For?: David Graeber and Gar Alperovitz
Triptych image: Occupy Wall St., Brazil, July 11, 2013 IN HIS NEW BOOK The Democracy Project: A History, a Crisis, a Movement, David Graeber rejects the notion that “democracy” means the freedom to cast a desultory vote for ...
Adam MorrisJul 14, 2013
Fair Warning: Julian Assange’s “Cypherpunks”
Adam Morris on Julian Assange's "Cypherpunks."...
Adam MorrisApr 28, 2013
- Politics and Economics
Drone Warfare: Tiqqun, the Young-Girl and the Imperialism of the Trivial
Claire Fontaine, The Weeping Wall Inside Us All, 2009 Neon "TIQQUN" IS A WORD that references the Jewish messianic tradition. It derives from “tikkun olam,” a Hebrew phrase that has been interpreted to mean “reparation,” “restitution,” “healing of the world” and “...
Adam MorrisSep 30, 2012