Nineteen hundred and sixty eight came prewrapped in a mythic version of itself. At every moment, one was aware that this was 1968. The whole year was written in italics. Everything lent itself to media melodrama, but this was not the …
Choose your metaphor for the Democrats’ quandaries. Circular firing squad? Refighting 2016? Or 1972? We latch on to a surfeit of speculation mixed with a few shreds of evidence. Acrimony seeks a vacuum. Anxiety is the mother of metaphors. How …
As the call for Consensus continues to roll from the lips of Lyndon B. Johnson, the American Left must begin to search for the sources and qualities of dissidence that could break progressive forces loose from Johnson’s grip. But the …
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