Sorkin’s film plays fast and loose with characters and facts, but he got one thing right.
Todd Gitlin
Todd Gitlin wrote about the Chicago events for the Ramparts Wallposter during the Democratic Convention; and later in his book The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage; and then again, exercising his own fiction-making license, in the novel The Opposition, to be published in 2021 by Guernica Editions. In Chicago, when Tom Hayden, bailed out of jail, went undercover, it was Todd Gitlin who purchased his fake goatee.
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Worried About the FBI? No.
The night after the news broke about the FBI collecting material from Trump lawyer Michael Cohen’s office and hotel room, a friend who is a prominent social scientist and a persistent liberal, asked me: Do you have any qualms about the FBI poring through a lawyer’s files? My honest, spontaneous answer was: No. On hearing […]
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The Vote Matters
An on-the-ground left knows that politics is not a laptop activity.
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From ‘Liberal Media’ to ‘Fake News’
The war against the press has descended beneath the level of rational argument.
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The Emperor Trump
The Fool Who Plays The King Todd Gitlin As the UN General Assembly readied to vote on a resolution condemning the United States for recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital (it passed, 128 to 9), Trump’s Ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, is reported by the Times to have written to the members of the General […]
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The Republicans’ Leninist Respect for Democracy
The Republican Party is the B-team of politics. The B stands for Bolshevik. They strike even before the iron is hot, partly because they fear it won’t stay hot for long, partly because they know how unpopular their moves are, and partly because they believe in the exercise of raw power. The Republican commandos are […]
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How to Fight Racism and Plutocracy in 2018
Taking back the House of Representatives
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Trump’s Neo-Fascist Slime Pit
When Trump launched his n+1st vileness on Twitter yesterday, retweeting phony and incendiary videos (talk about “fake news”!) posted by a lunatic-fringe white Christian Muslim-hating British website, Britain First , the reaction from anti-racists was quickly and rightly outraged. Britain First traffics in demographic panic that can be summarized easily: The white Christians are vanishing! […]
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What Will It Take for Black Lives to Matter?
Nonviolent, cross-racial coalitions are the only way back to a decent America.
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The Disgrace of ‘60 Minutes’
Steve Bannon gets a bully platform and runs rings around Charlie Rose.