What Went Wrong With Identity Politics?
In a new book, Asad Haider makes the case for coalition-building and a return to universalist radical movements.
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The Uncivil Servant: The Black Panthers, Heroes and Maniacs
by Mitchell Abidor ON A PURELY PERSONAL LEVEL, Stanley Nelson’s engrossing film The Black Panthers, Vanguard of the Revolution has led me to revise what I’ve been saying for decades about my youthful love for that organization. I’ve maintained that I was right to support them, but it was for all the wrong reasons. In […]
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by Richard Klin Discussed in this essay: The John Lennon Letters, edited by Hunter Davies. 2012, Little, Brown, 400 pages. . . . I’m bringing myself down thinking about what a thoughtless bastard I seem to be . . . I really feel like crying . . . —letter to his ex-wife, Cynthia, 1965 The […]
Read MoreFootprints: “Pro-Israel, Non-Zionist” — and Arguing with the Left
by Lawrence Bush This article is one of a series reflecting on the history of Jewish Currents on the occasion of our 65th anniversary. You can find the other entries here. ON THE VERY FIRST DAY I came to the Jewish Currents office as the newly hired assistant editor in 1978, the veteran editor Morris […]
Read MoreA Tradition of Solidarity
Black-Jewish Relations in the Pages of Jewish Currents by Rokhl Kaffrisen I VOTED FOR OBAMA. If you’re reading Jewish Currents, you probably did, too. Throughout the past century, American Jews have voted overwhelmingly for Democrats, and in this election, more than three-quarters of American Jews did so. The surprising statistic is that my so-called peers, […]
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