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A free copy of my book
Last summer I published the book version of my Ph.D. dissertation, bearing the ungainly title Popular Radicalism and the Unemployed in...
Sep 25, 20222 min read
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...
Aug 9, 202213 min read
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...
Jul 30, 20227 min read
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...
Apr 19, 202114 min read
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...
Sep 4, 202035 min read
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...
Jul 25, 20188 min read
Popular sanity
No reasonable person would deny that pop culture is a vulgar, artificial, debased and debasing thing. Does this mean that “the...
Feb 5, 20153 min read
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