History of American Radicalism - Writings of Christopher Phelps
Obituary for Paul M. Sweezy (2004)
 
“Mao and Then,” a review of Max Elbaum’s book on the 1970s left (2003)

 

A history of Against the Current at one hundred issues (2002)

 

Journal of American History review of biography of William Z. Foster (2001)

 

"Socialism and Radical Thought," in Scribner's Encyclopedia of American Cultural and Intellectual History (2001)

 

Monthly Review fiftieth anniversary issue (May 1999)

 

       "Introduction:  A Socialist Magazine in the American Century"

 

      Interview of Paul M. Sweezy

 

      Interview of Harry Magdoff

 

      Interview of Ellen Meiksins Wood

 

American National Biography entry on "Jerry Rubin" (1999)

 

"Hal Draper," "Sidney Hook," and "Independent Socialist Clubs / International Socialists," in Encyclopedia of the American Left (2d ed., Oxford, 1998)

 

“Bourne Yet Again: Errors of Genealogy,” an article on the Greenwich Village intellectual Randolph Bourne for New Politics (1998)

 

“Out of the Fraina and into the Fire,” a review-essay on the American Marxist Louis Fraina for American Quarterly (1998)

 

Review of Judy Kutulas's The Long War: The Intellectual People's Front and Anti-Stalinism, 1930-1940 for Canadian Journal of History (1996)

 

"The Poverty of Marxist Crisis Theory During the Great Depression," in The Canadian Review of American Studies (1996).

 

Entry on "Chicago Seven" for Historic World Leaders (1994), now out of print.

 

 

Jeet Heer, “Trotsky’s Ghost Wandering the White House,” National Post,Canada (2003)

 

Paul Buhle, "Monthly Review at 50," The Nation (1999)

 

Review of a film on Leon Trotsky for the American Historical Review (2003)
 
"Editor's Preface" to Monthly Review Press edition of The Communist Manifesto by Marx and Engels (1999)
 
"Jenny von Westphalen Marx," for Gale Research Company's Women in World History (1999)

 

“Commemorating 1844: Why Marx Still Matters,” New Politics (1995)

 

Entry on "Leon Trotsky" for Historic World Leaders (1994), no longer in print.

International Socialist History
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"C. L. R. James and the Theory of State Capitalism," in
American Capitalism: Social Thought and Political Economy in the Twentieth Century (2006), ed. Nelson Lichtenstein
 
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"The New SDS," The Nation (2007) 
 
"The Radicalism of Randolph Bourne," Socialism & Democracy (2007)
 
"Herbert Aptheker: the Contradictions of History," The Chronicle of Higher
     Education (2006)        [Reprinted in The Australian (2006)]
 
Obituary for historian Morris Slavin, Against the Current (2006)