Ideology and legitimation

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"Ideology" can mean a number of things. I'm using it here in the sense of the received consciousness of a particular social order, which legitimates that order and helps reproduce it. The lawyer and sociologist David Riesman aptly described how ideological modes of thought produce a...

Newt Has Invented His Doom

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The first last step was touching the moon. As the Republican primaries approach their de facto end in Florida, Newt is making a lot of noises about staying in to the end, and entertainingly is now resorting to the last refuge of pundits who want to...

A WPA For History

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The highly respected historian and radical Jesse Lemisch has taken the American Historical Association to task for its unwillingness to deal with the field's employment crisis. Lemisch compares the AHA's.

Alternative Energy Subsidies

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If there's one thing more frustrating to environmentalists than the reluctance of the government to subsidize clean energy production, I don't know what it is. Not only is it central to any reasonable plan for fighting climate change, but it just makes sense on so many...

Limbo Without Law

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Powerful and important reporting from Elise Foley: On a single day this past fall, the United States government held 13,185 people in immigration detention who had not been convicted of.

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