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O My America: Imagining Socialism, Chapter by Chapter
lawrencebush
March 24, 2014
Part One
by Lawrence Bush Click here for further entries in this series. In the late 1990s, just a couple of years before the millennium, I proposed to my literary agent at the time, the estimable and radical Frances Goldin, that I create a facsimile of the New York Times dated January 1, 2000 and filled with marvelous news about a world redeemed. I drew a cartoon showing the front page of that imaginary edition — “Earth Observes Millennium with Worldwide Jubilation; International Truce on Armed Conflict, Now Global, Extended ‘Indefinitely’ ” — and proceeded to line up commitments from a few progressive thinkers, including Noam Chomsky, Letty Cottin Pogrebin, Arthur Waskow, and Julius Lester, to write lead articles on topics in which they specialized.

