A free copy of my book
In June I published the book version of my Ph.D. dissertation, bearing the ungainly title Popular Radicalism and the Unemployed in...
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- Aug 9
- 13 min
The myth of the "moderate" American
[This article was published at Compact magazine.] In the United States there exists today, and has existed since at least the 1950s, a...
- Jul 30
- 7 min
Classical music vs. mediocrity
On one side is the mediocrity of all functionaries. All bureaucrats. There’s no point in my writing about bureaucrats in the ordinary...
- Apr 19, 2021
- 14 min
Review of "The Young Lords," by Johanna Fernández
[This academic review was posted at H-Net.] Johanna Fernández’s The Young Lords: A Radical History could hardly have been published at a...
- Sep 4, 2020
- 35 min
The Workers' Bill
Here's the last section of chapter 6 of my dissertation on the unemployed in Chicago during the Depression. The previous two sections are...
- Jul 25, 2018
- 8 min
Grad-school notes on Populism and Progressivism
In The Populist Vision, Charles Postel argues persuasively that Populism, the greatest popular movement in American history, should not...
- Feb 5, 2015
- 3 min
Popular sanity
No reasonable person would deny that pop culture is a vulgar, artificial, debased and debasing thing. Does this mean that “the...