Apocalyptic intemperateness, paranoia, a loathing of compromise, a demonization of the enemy — where have we run into this before?
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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State of the Debate: Indelible Colors
A book by two political theorists argues that new, cultural definitions of race can be as insidious as the old, biological ones.
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Elaine Scarry’s On Beauty and Being Just
Every age has its ways of despising art-which also are ways of taking it seriously, for you don’t smash idols you don’t fear. Art can be despised with thumbscrews, bonfires, or money. It can be smothered in Glad Wrap: feel-good art meant to lie about how happy the proletariat is, say, or how cute the […]
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Imagebusters
Revulsion against television violence offers cheap indignation. Unfortunately, imagebusting does little about the deeper sources of our violent society.