Stan Goff
Stan Goff is a writer and activist whose first career was in Army Special Operations. He lives in rural Southeast Michigan with his partner Sherry and writes what he calls "gonzo social criticism," which includes books like Hideous Dream, Full Spectrum Disorder, Borderline, Mammon's Ecology, Smitten Gate, and Tough Gynes. A practicing, if heterodox, Catholic, he draws on that tradition as well as feminism, Marxism, Black nationalism, and deep ecology as interpretive frameworks. He is committed to nonviolence.
Latest posts by Stan Goff (see all)
- Squeeze: Why Medicare for All Disrupts the Precarious Power of Capital - December 20, 2019
- The President’s Greatest Power Lies in Foreign Policy…and the Media Makes Sure Not to Talk About It - December 6, 2019
- The Stench of Fear: Buttigieg, Democrats, Trump & Political Crisis - October 29, 2019
In November, during the inane corporate product known as the 5th Democratic Debate, hardly a mention was made of foreign policy. In fact, the subject has been anathema during all these so-called debates (I took a debate class in college, and there is zero similarity), which might seem strange given that the arena where the President has the most unilateral power is precisely in foreign policy. The President of the United States can — theoretically, on…