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Altercation: Race, Vietnam, and the New Left in Mid-Century George Scialabba discusses the limits of Louis Menand’s new tome on America in the Cold War era. Robert W. Klein/AP Photo Mario Savio, leader of the Berkeley Free Speech Movement, is restrained by police as he walks onto the platform at the University of California’s Greek Theatre in Berkeley, December 7, 1964. I’m about three-quarters of the way through Louis Menand’s 880-page The Free World: Art and Thought in th...

A researcher traces the legacy of plastics. Photos by Ansel Adams.

Sanjaya Baru on the changing concept of elitism, the rise of the middle castes and how economic politics is always political

President Barack Obama is joined by presidential nominee Hillary Clinton after he spoke at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia in July

Daily Times May 1, 2021 The devastating impact of mafias is more on the so-called middle class than anyone else. Action, not words could take the pain away. People in this category don’t go begging. They like to maintain the “Status-quo” and protect “Safaid posh”. Coronavirus pandemic makes no distinction between the rich and the poor. It doesn’t look at status and stature. Many distinguished personalities died while devoted to serving the people. May they rest in eternal peace, pro...

For most Americans the terms “environmentalist” and “liberal” are more or less synonymous. For many historians the set of ideas called environmentalism and the set of ideas called liberalism are similarly—and for similar reasons—connected. But it is not at all clear why these associations make sense. The environmental historian Roderick Nash provides one explanation for the pairing of environmentalism and liberalism in The Rights of Nature, where he argues that “one can reg...

Storefront Stagnation: Coping With Neighborhood Retail’s New Realities We miss the locally owned shops that once sustained community on our Main Streets. We need to try to sustain them in a radically different economic world. Alan Ehrenhalt, Senior Editor   |   April 20, 2021 Like many of the residents of our northern Virginia neighborhood, I am attached to my local bookstore and worry that it could go away. I try to shop there instead of at Amazon when...

News From Antiwar.com Top US/NATO Commander Prepared to Use ‘Full Weight of the Transatlantic Alliance’ Against Russia and China General Tod Wolters, the dual-hatted top commander of U.S. European Command and NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander Europe, testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee on April 13 as part of a review of the 2022 Pentagon authorization request and the Future Years Defense Program. He appeared primarily in his first capacity, though the two roles are coterm...

Updated: April 09, 2021 12:36 IST Sanjaya Baru captures the churn brought about by the 2014 general election, the rise of the BJP and its impact on the social and cultural landscape Share Article AAA Sanjaya Baru captures the churn brought about by the 2014 general election, the rise of the BJP and its impact on the social and cultural landscape The ascent of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the national arena has disrupted politics as we knew it. The dominance of Modi and that of the Bharatiya ...

Part 3 of a 3-Part Series by Cynthia Chung / April 8th, 2021 The Eisenhower presidency would see Washington taken over by business executives, Wall Street lawyers, and investment bankers—and by a closely aligned warrior caste that had emerged into public prominence during World War II. ***** As discussed in Part Two of this series, the war in Vietnam did not start on its official date, November 1st, 1955, but rather 1945 when American clandestine operations were launched in Vietnam to “prep...