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Politics

Cheney’s Last Stand

She may be exiting the GOP leadership, but she is joining a new Resistance

May 12, 2021 • by Heather Cox Richardson

_____ Tuesday night, in a speech that claimed every piece of the Republican landscape since 1980, Wyoming Representative Liz Cheney launched a broadside against the Republican leaders who have shackled the party to the former president. “Today we face a threat America has never seen before,” Cheney said. A former president who ...

Activism

Betty Friedan’s Radical Century

Because of this organizer, you can’t understand the twentieth century without talking about feminism

March 4, 2021 • by Peter Dreier

"A century after her birth, Betty Friedan’s radical ideas are common sense, and that’s a victory not just for feminists, but for everyone."...

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The Makings of Black Lives Matter and Public Seminar

Reflections of an old New Leftist on the Race/isms Book Forum

February 23, 2018 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

I am not a great fan of the older generation bemoaning the limitations of the younger one. I am not at all sure, as some of my peers are, that we were more curious than they are, read more, were smarter, more engaged, more mature. With this in mind, I ...

The Makings of Black Lives Matter and Public Seminar

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Vision and Reality in Bernie’s Revolution

March 28, 2016 • by Andrew Raposa

“And the children swarmed to him like settlers. He became a land.” (Edward Lear, 1945) A certain classic exposition on moral political thought holds that men acquire control and certainty about their world and their own existence through justice, and that humans’ knowledge of the world is inseparable from their own ...

Vision and Reality in Bernie’s Revolution

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Hannah Arendt, The Man of Action, and She Who Watches

February 1, 2016 • by Hilton Obenzinger

This piece is based on the experiences of Jane Kinzler when she was a student at Barnard College in 1967. We spoke several times, expanding upon her account, uncovering more details, before she passed away from cancer in November 2015. JJ (John Jacobs) was famous as a fiery campus radical ...

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