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About Jim Sleeper

Jim Sleeper, a writer and teacher on American civic culture and politics and a lecturer in political science at Yale, is the author of The Closest of Strangers: Liberalism and the Politics of Race in New York (W.W. Norton, 1990) and Liberal Racism (Viking, 1997, Rowman & Littlefield, 2002). More of his articles and commentary are available at jimsleeper.com.

Articles by Jim Sleeper

Sunday 30th October

Ressentiment: how sniping at OWS feeds a dangerous populism

Jim Sleeper, 30 October 2011

The right criticises OWS because it lacks order ... or surreptitiously injects hierarchy; because it respects private property ... or doesn't ... What drives the rhetorical sniping against OWS is the need for scapegoats. The media that offers them up is playing a dangerous game

Monday 24th October

Markets, media, the occupiers and the next step

Jim Sleeper, 24 October 2011

In Occupy Wall Street old forms of protest and new forms of media are bringing in new players and new political pressures asking the American republic to declare its independence from the market forces that are driving the old journalism and governing the government.

Sunday 11th September

Pearl divers still needed, 10 years after 9/11

Jim Sleeper, 11 September 2011

America still needs to re-discover itself as a Republic rather than a police force with a profit center and the powerless of the world have yet to prove conclusively that they have understood that there is no redemption in terrorism

Thursday 18th February