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Todd Gitlin, activist, scholar and, most importantly, a social critic and writer, died earlier this year at 79. I first encountered him when I was a grad student closely reading

From the blog of Tony D. Senatore at The Times of Israel

Featuring "The Man in the Black Hat: Part One," "Texas Primer: The Resistol Hat," "Give Me a Job" and more stories from across the state of Texas.

Terence Renaud’s new book compels us to revisit post-war activist movements around the world to understand generational conflicts in the left.

As floods follow fires, we need to hold our leaders’ feet to the flames – or, for that matter, to the water

This year we celebrate the centennial birthday of the creator of the Peanuts gang, which has endured as a much-beloved comic strip since its debut in 1950, not least because it tackled the most enduring of Western maladies: loneliness.

It was always going happen – no major political party in a functioning liberal democracy can support a destructive opportunist like Donald Trump inde

Todd Gitlin on the Sixties, the New Left and the rise of identity politics.

Michael Sommer’s 2014 essay 'Anti-Postone: or, Why Moishe Postone's Antisemitism Theory is Wrong, but Effective' has recently been translated into English by Maciej Zurowski (Cosmonaut Press 2021, Available on Amazon or in the Cosmonaut webstore). A more than useful contribution to the fightback against the ‘anti-Zionism equals anti-Semitism’ big lie, which finds its most ‘sophisticated’ justification in the pseudo-Marxist writings of Moishe Postone. Here is the introductio...

Our wealth, health and happiness problems are not individual personal troubles that can be resolved by exhorting people to think or act differently.