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California’s eclectic city of Berkeley is renowned for its tie-dyed hippies and high-brow intellectuals, and now it’s experiencing a 1960s flashback...

BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) -- Berkeley, an eclectic California city renowned for tie-dyed hippies and high-brow intellectuals, is experiencing a 1960s

The city renowned for tie-dyed hippies and high-brow intellectuals is experiencing a 1960s flashback triggered by People's Park.

This week, the editors revisit writer-artist Constance DeJong’s “In Between the Dark and the Light,” a piece published in January 1981 on “Television/Society/Art,” a symposium held at the Kitchen in New York City the prior autumn. DeJong’s Reader (Primary Information), an anthology of eighteen texts including out-of-print and unpublished works, is in bookstores now.Before the internet, television was of course the messiah-bogeyman of consequence, promising liberation via the democra...

Threats against the judiciary did not come suddenly. The slouch toward selective law enforcement and politicized violence has a history.

A Magazine of American Culture

Please enjoy and respect the form of government granted to you by our founding fathers. Do not support or condone those who would usurp our democratic republic.

On June 3, <em>Tempest</em> published an article titled “Solidarity with the Ukrainian resistance!” by Ashley Smith, a prominent member of the DSA. An investigation of the political background of this Ukrainian "resistance" reveals it is a creation of US imperialism.

… Large-scale civil disobedience could ensue. One tactic: mass tax revolt.

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