Brigit McCone

Brigit McCone is an Irish writer and lecturer who specializes in 19th century Russian and Ukrainian literature, with a dark past in event organizing, cabaret and stand-up.

Kellogg in Southern California

Book Review: ‘Our Democracy and the American Indian’ by Laura Cornelius Kellogg

It is one of the ironies of the 20th century that, even as ideas of economic democracy became fashionable with the European and Euro-American Left, the actual traditions of economic democracy of indigenous Americans were rarely defended.

June 9, 2021

Monument to slaves in Zanzibar

Elizabeth Heyrick’s Consumer Campaign to Abolish Slavery

Elizabeth Heyrick teaches us that it is precisely the personal responsibility fostered by the exercise of consumer democracy which most effectively leads to political engagement and participation.

June 8, 2021