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Lionel Trilling resisted an apocalyptic progressivism at odds with liberty and complexity.

ED111202:  A Multi-Front War for Blair

Ehrenreich’s work has always acknowledged that power operates at the intimate level, which is part of what makes it difficult to resist. To engage in political struggle is not only frightening, it is painful, because power is not just out there: it is also a voice in your own head — projection, inner fear. This is a distinctively feminist insight and not by coincidence.

The electrifying guitarist and complicated founder of The Blues Project, Danny Kalb has died at the age of 80.

 

After being blacklisted from academia for his antiwar activity, he became an organizer among steel workers in the industrial Midwest.

The Marxist historian and urban theorist died in October aged 76. As a theoretical innovator, his singular political approach is as prescient and urgent as ever.

Mike Davis, the acclaimed Marxist activist, journalist, and historian, died at his home in San Diego on Oct. 25, after a years-long fight against esophageal cancer, with his wife Alessandra Moctezuma, the Chicana artist, curator and scholar, by his side.

BY MATT BOKOVOY Mike Davis, the acclaimed Marxist activist, journalist, and historian, died at his home in San Diego on Oct. 25, after a years-long fight against esophageal cancer, with his wife Alessandra Moctezuma, the Chicana artist, curator and scholar, by his side. Davis was a prolific Marxist journalist, historian, trade union activist, architecture and

Mike Davis, the acclaimed Marxist activist, journalist, and historian, died at his home in San Diego on Oct. 25, after a years-long fight against esophageal cancer, with his wife Alessandra Moctezuma, the Chicana artist, curator and scholar, by his side.