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Page Your Office, Upton Sinclair

aroundthesphere wrote 1 month ago: Domenica Marchetti at Politics Daily: On Sunday, the New York Times ran a front-page, above-the-fold … more →

Tags: Food Culture, Public Health, Chris Walters, Domenica Marchetti, Food, Joe Windish, mark kleiman, moderate voice, Politics daily

Week One - Media Unlimited

goalicego wrote 2 months ago: I finished reading Media Unlimited by Todd Gitlin today. I liked the first chapter and the abridged … more →

Tags: Class, Homework, Media Crit, Media Unlimited

"The People is an Ass" (or a "Herd"?)

clarespark wrote 3 months ago:     Prior blogs have touched upon the lineage of so-called multiculturalism, a reactionary ideologic … more →

Tags: 1, John Locke, Robert Filmer, Possessive Individualism, The City of Dreadful Night, piranesi, George Eliot, C. Vann Woodward, organic conservatism

Ahmadinejad And Mousavi Or Florida in Iran4 comments

aroundthesphere wrote 5 months ago: Today’s the day for sixties pop figures. We had to post the video, after the series Sully … more →

Tags: middle east, andrew sullivan, joe klein, swampland, Slate, Talking Points memo, Commentary, Foreign Policy, time

Was I.F. Stone a Spy? 1 comment

aroundthesphere wrote 7 months ago: For the prosecution, Commentary Magazine: http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm/special- … more →

Tags: Mainstream, Glenn Greenwald, Eric Alterman, Jonah Goldberg, National Review, the new republic, The American Prospect, Commentary, marty peretz

Twittering while Rome burns12 comments

James McPherson wrote 7 months ago: I’m generally not convinced that the British are smarter than we are, despite their intelligen … more →

Tags: Media Literacy, Education, Written Elsewhere, History, Personal, Video, Bush administration, Barack Obama, Government Secrecy

It's not a compliment

Lisa Pampuch wrote 8 months ago: Todd Gitlin at TPMCafe reminds us that the phrase “best and brightest” was meant to be i … more →

Tags: Caught My Eye, Gilroy, Talking Points memo, best and brightest, tpmcafe, David Halberstam, Irony

Interesting tidbit from Todd Gitlin

Bernie Latham wrote 10 months ago: In an earlier post referencing a Kristol column, I hypothesized that a noticeable change in tone/con … more →

Tags: Propaganda, bill kristol, William Safire, Likud

Chris Hedges Visited Slain Gaza Leader

stephencrose wrote 10 months ago: Theology and suicide bombing went together in the mind of a Hamas leader who died, along with most o … more →

Tags: Politics, tpmcafe, Israel, hamas, Palestinians, Nizar Rayan

A Review: Ian Whitcomb: Rock Odyssey

reprindle wrote 1 year ago:   A Review You Really Turn Me On Rock Odyssey by Ian Whitcomb Review by R.E. Prindle Whitcomb, Ian: … more →

Tags: Reviews, america, R.E. Prindle, writing, Bob Dylan, Folk music, Psychology, greil marcus, bonzo dog doo-dah band

The Berkley History Project

philipsmith wrote 1 year ago: by Feistyle Since 1991 Berkley have conducted interviews with their faculty. The 31 videos are an ar … more →

Tags: Ann Swidler, Arlie Hochschild, Barrie Thorne, Berkley, Bob Blauner, Claude Fischer, David Matza, Erik Wright, Evelyn Nakano Glenn

Adventures of the Modern Anti-Hero1 comment

Erin wrote 1 year ago: How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and i … more →

Tags: Books, Great Quotes, Soapbox, Media Unlimited, Paul Sweeney

Until The Last Prayer

Matthias Bernold wrote 1 year ago: One Sunday only three of them had come. There was no pastor preaching. There was no gospel music pla … more →

Tags: bronx, church, COLUMBIA, florence reed, God, Hans Gruber, Master's Project, Religion

Until The Last Prayer

Matthias Bernold wrote 1 year ago: One Sunday only three of them had come. There was no pastor preaching. There was no gospel music pla … more →

Tags: bronx, church, COLUMBIA, florence reed, God, Hans Gruber, Master's Project, Religion

Until The Last Prayer

Matthias Bernold wrote 1 year ago: One Sunday only three of them had come. There was no pastor preaching. There was no gospel music pla … more →

Tags: Religion, florence reed, bronx, COLUMBIA, Master's Project, church, God, Hans Gruber

Weather Underground, Revised4 comments

withinempire wrote 1 year ago: This book review originally appeared in the journal Socialism and Democracy Vol. 21, No. 1 (March 20 … more →

Tags: Philosophy, capitalism, History, Iraq/'War on Terror', antiwar movement, Black Panthers, Days of Rage, fred hampton, James Gilbert

The Generation Gap Exposes Itself in NY1 comment

revdbh wrote 1 year ago: A dozen years or so ago I was talking to an old school radical about my favorable opinion of Todd Gi … more →

Tags: Rights, Ethics & Values, Barack Obama, Ted Kennedy, NOW NY, Identity Politics, generation gap, Baby Boomers, Marcia Pappas

The "Other" 40 Years Ago Today3 comments

John wrote 2 years ago: We still have some months left in 2007, so we surely haven’t heard the end of the nostalgic ch … more →

Tags: Ideology, racism, Memory, Freedom, libération, Justice, individualism, counter-culture, injustice

Star Power Politics1 comment

John wrote 2 years ago: I’ve already written here a bit on how The Beatles carry a thin, largely fictitious politics t … more →

Tags: Ideology, whiteness, African-Americans, Postmodernity, Freedom, libération, Justice, individualism, the beatles


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