I heard about this great Slate article from a former professor of mine, Ian Robinson. Here’s to hoping the author, Nelson Lichtenstein, is right. To spoil the end: As in the crucial struggles that began more than a century ago, today’s marches have forged a link among working-class aspiration, celebrations of ethnic identity, and insistence […]
Trotskyites On the March
According to media reports, leaders of the Trotskyite organization the Revolutionary Workers League (RWL) have been active in Lansing, Michigan, organizing a counter-protest to a Nazi rally there over the weekend. The Lansing State Journal reported about 100 counter-protestors turned up at the peaceful April 22 rally. I found one local blogger, historymike, who posted […]
‘Legitimate Attachment to Mutually Exclusive Reasons’
I found this Malcolm Gladwell article in the New Yorker on a book about reasons quite interesting. Is your reason a story, a convention, or a code? This part reminded me of some of the talk about Michigamua: When we say that two parties in a conflict are “talking past each other,” this is what […]
Riding Scandal To November: Is It Possible?
With people like Robert Greenwald, perhaps. His company, Brave New Films, has teamed up with filmmakers Mark Birnbaum and Jim Schermbeck to make a feature-length documentary about Tom Delay which will premier in May 5th in Houston, Texas. According to the film website, The Big Buy: Tom Delay’s Stolen Congress will document Tom Delay’s role […]
‘The Kos Approach’
University of Maryland professor Peter Levine has some interesting things to say about the liberal blogosphere in response to bloggers Jerome Armstrong and Markos Moulitsas Zúniga’s new book, Crashing the Gate: Netroots, Grassroots, and the Rise of People-Powered Politics: I should also note that 2006 is the perfect year for the Kos approach. The main […]
Affirmative Action On the Ballot In Michigan
Blogger Chetly Zarko wrote to me earlier this week to point out the so-called “Michigan Civil Rights Initiative,” which would ban affirmative action in Michigan, will appear on the ballot in November in that state. Another friend reminded me of this story which the Detroit Metrotimes printed in January, but I forgot to post here, […]
Reviewing The Great Society Subway: A History of the Washington metro
Zachary M. Schrag’s recently published book The Great Society Subway has been on my “to read” list for quite some time now. Since the first time I visited Washington, D.C. I was captivated by the city’s Metro system, which I first began to explore in earnest when I lived in the city without a car […]