Guantanamo on My Mind
There is nothing I like better than reading memoirs of converted commies who, just before pension saw the virtues of the system they once...
Market Mindlessness
It is a truism that the stock market is a leading economic indicator—that is, how the market does tells us something about how the...
Todd Gitlin’s Gibberish in the White House
Gibberish Is the White House’s New Normal - The bad art of the non sequitur.
Once upon a time, there were presidents for whom English seemed...
Una cuba libre con un toque de limón por favor
First came the handshake and then this. At this pace, if Obama would be re-elected five more times, the US would have the same...
Fred Shapiro’s — and through him, Yale’s — List of Notable Quotes
The original "Yale Book of Quotations" was published in 2006, and Fred Shapiro, the associate librarian at Yale Law School, has updated it with an...
Giuliani Out of Presidential Race—Unsure of Lunch Plans
Oct 11 (Reuters) - Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani said on Tuesday he will not enter the race for the Republican nomination to run...
The next president of Syria – email from a TPV reader
What I heard is Obama told McCain they were looking for a President and had great respect for old people.
We know from his...
America Does Not Need an Arab Spring, Mr. Friedman. It Needs a Leader.
Yesterday, the often mistaken Thomas L. Friedman of New York Times raised an interesting question “Does America need an Arab Spring?” True to himself,...
All I Want for Christmas Is… a Revolution
It’s Christmas time and nothing would stave off the cold and unemployment better than a revolution. Lenin gave history one of its most famous...
Mike Konczal Has Not Heard of Karl Marx. Picketty Has. They Used to Be...
Mike Konczal recently reviewed the newest trendy book in economics, Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century, for the Boston Review. Konczal succeeded the impossible task...
Magic Mike. Bloomberg, the Male Stripper
Amid concerns that the Marathon may let foreigners gauge the depth of the American dream a week after a tropical storm ravaged what used...
The Genius of Herman Cain (ruined by a Ben Stiller movie)
The Republican primary season (can something that lasts 18 months be considered a season?) is nothing if not entertaining. Trump's self-proclaimed victory over Obama...
Todd Gitlin’s Bad Trump, Good Trump
Bad Trump, Good Trump
March 1, 2017 by Todd Gitlin
This post first appeared on BillMoyers.com.
It seems that all Donald Trump must do to win friends...
Todd Gitlin’s Management of Unleashed Insanity
The Management of Unleashed Insanity
Trump perfects the role of Propagandist-in-Chief.
BY TODD GITLIN | MARCH 16, 2017
The Management of Unleashed Insanity
President Richard Nixon during a...
