The New Left

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With Aaron Sorkin's uneven but entertaining The Trial of the Chicago 7 getting multiple Oscar nominations, Louis Menand has a good essay about the New Left and its major figures:.

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Roscoe Filburn conservatism

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In 1941 Roscoe Filburn accepted large federal subsidies, receiving far-above-market prices for his commodities, in exchange for agreeing to limit his production to a robust 11 acres. He then proceeded to plant 23 acres, and (not very plausibly) asserted that he didn't intend to sell any...
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The NLRB and Graduate Student Unions

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I was genuinely shocked that the Trump National Labor Relations Board didn't target graduate student unions at private institutions sooner than it did. For several presidencies now, Democrats have ruled that graduate students are workers and Republicans have ruled that they not. After the Obama NLRB...
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