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The Logical Endpoint of Class Not Race Analysis

By Erik Loomis

In General

On June 24, 2019

Above: A Revolutionary Act I've been reading Max Elbaum's 2002 book Revolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals Turn to Lenin, Mao and Che. It's a deep insider account of the internal dynamics of sixties radicals who identified as communists beginning in 1968. I've joked for...

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Book Review: Matthew Delmont, Why Busing Failed: Race, Media, and the National Resistance to School Desegregation

By Erik Loomis

On November 20, 2017

Few issues in recent history are more misunderstood than the anti-busing protests. Framed almost entirely as northern whites protesting to protect their communities and their local schools and widely seen.

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Was the Southern Strategy Effective?

By Erik Loomis

On December 7, 2015

Richard M. Nixon, candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, is seen arriving at the airport in Atlanta, Ga. with his wife, Patricia, on May 31, 1968..

Reverse Busing

By Erik Loomis

In General

On August 24, 2014

We all know how much white conservatives opposed school busing. The most famous case was in Boston, when Louise Day Hicks became famous saving south Boston from the horrors of white kids going to school with black kids. So it was a strong principle for...

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Lurker The Germans have tried European domination "only" twice, in WWI and WWII. (Between 1870 and 1900 or so, they were perfectly content at playing as one of the Great Powers). The French pursued this as a...
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AlanInSF Won't anyone think of the profits???!!!?!
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AlanInSF Jewish students apparently terrified of having anyone criticize Netanyahu policies. Palestinian students only terrified of having their families murdered.
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cereal Anyone perplexed or upset that Zevon (or Big Star, or Joy Division, or whatever excellent and influential artist or group) isn’t in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: think of the worst, most boring,...
The Politics of Glory · April 23, 2024