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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O My America: Can the Left Repair Itself?
by Lawrence Bush Discussed in this essay: The Once and Future Liberal: After Identity Politics, by Mark Lilla, HarperCollins, 2017, 143 pages. Beyond the Messy Truth: How We Came Apart, How We Come Together, by Van Jones, Ballantine Books, 2017, 233 pages. IS THE UNEXPECTED VICTORY of Doug Jones over Roy Moore in Alabama’s Senate race in […]
Read MoreTowards A “Truly Disadvantaged Alliance”
by Myriam Miedzian Photo credit Pax Ahimsa Gethen SLAVERY WAS AN OPPRESSION unique to black Americans, who are and have since the end of slavery been the victims of systematic and extreme racism. Other groups have suffered as well, but not remotely as severely. That is why the “People of Color” (PoC) phrase is problematic. It lumps together […]
Read MoreLearning from the Trump Tragedy
ANALYZING WHITE WORKING-CLASS RESENTMENTS by Myriam Miedzian AT SOME POINT in 2016, when it became apparent that a Trump presidency was not a joke but a serious threat to democracy, I was one of many on the left who were deeply perplexed. How could so many working-class and middle-class people be so stupid as to […]
Read MoreRemembering America’s Uniqueness This Thanksgiving
by Allan C. Brownfeld WE CELEBRATE THANKSGIVING this year in a time of political turmoil. We have just had a divisive political campaign in which one side called for jailing the candidate they opposed, while the other side, after the election results were clear, said of the winner, “Not my president.” This is a time […]
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