Page 5 - New Leftists News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

The writer and activist combined intellectual complexity and honesty with a lifelong commitment to liberal humanist values.

A new report catalogues 15,896 federal and state violations from more than 100 U.S. Chamber of Commerce members, including major fossil fuel companies.

Progressives should not — must not — earn their subjective feelings of righteousness on the anvil political purity.

The Times (London) REUNION, A Memoir, By Tom Hayden, Hamish Hamilton, £17.95 Wordsworth wrote of the Happy Warrior. Tom Hayden can reasonably claim to be the Happy Student Radical, American version, what each of his innumerable 1960s confederates might have wished to be. Hayden wrote, in 1962 at the age of 22, the manifesto of Students for a Democratic Society, perhaps the key institution of the just-emerging New Left. He was an 'outside agitator' in the still-segregated South, one of the only two whites to be jailed in Martin Luther King's first large-scale campaign of civil disobedience. ...

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 regard environmental ethics as marking out the farthest limits of American liberalism.” 1 For Nash, t...