One of my political activities is trying to get the liberals who read this site to think deeper about their politics, which often means annoying people, yes. And yes, you.
Look, I am ambivalent about the college occupations and tent camps. I am not sure of this as a strategy and I often don't see endgames to the idea of.
Last week, we had a very unfortunate comment thread when I mentioned that one of the bombers portrayed in The Battle of Algiers still lives. Too many commenters basically preferred.
I suppose it's fairly well-known that I do not have the reflexive obsession with nonviolence in politics that dominates the minds of American liberals. Violence is usually a bad idea.
Robert Putnam's Bowling Alone is a somewhat overrated book that seeks to put a lot of phenomena into a single box of Americans losing their social spaces. But it's not.
Greg Sargent has a good interview with Mike Konczal about the latter's new book (I interviewed him for the LGM podcast as well). I thought this tidbit was especially important:.
This is the grave of Eugene Dennis. Francis Waldron was born in 1904 in Seattle (some say 1905), he seems to have grown up poor. He became a worker as.
Max Weber, 1864-1920 tl;dr: The New Yorker ran a piece by Corey Robin that elaborated a rather idiosyncratic reading of Max Weber, one of the canonical thinkers of western social.
