It was during the national stock-taking and spiritual inventory accompanying the obsequies for Ronald Reagan that I finally figured out how the war in Iraq differs from the one in Vietnam. The Iraq War’s champions have always insisted it’s different, of course. Before the first shot was fired last year, they assailed “deja-vu” dissenters who […]
Jim Sleeper
Jim Sleeper is a lecturer in political science at Yale, a former columnist for Newsday and the New York Daily News, and author of The Closest of Strangers: Liberalism and the Politics of Race in New York.
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The Limits of Indignation
Three widely discussed works are helping to heat up the debate about race again. But the limits of a politics of racial conscience should be all too apparent.