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.
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Published in: HomeHow Yale becomes more Confucian, rather than Singapore more civic-republicanYale's Singaporean adventure, continued ... The crucible of civic-republican leadership is compromising its soul for...
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Published in: HomeYale's Singaporean adventure - a victory for the ideals of the republic?Yale's Singaporean adventure may still be going ahead, even after a faculty rebellion over the issue. But the vote...
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Published in: HomeUniversity campuses in the Far East - money, power or democracy?
Yale should have proud independence from the lures of power and money in its bones. That does not mean shunning...
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Published in: HomeRessentiment: how sniping at OWS feeds a dangerous populism
The right criticises OWS because it lacks order ... or surreptitiously injects hierarchy; because it respects...
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Published in: HomeMarkets, media, the occupiers and the next stepIn Occupy Wall Street old forms of protest and new forms of media are bringing in new players and new political...
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Published in: HomePearl divers still needed, 10 years after 9/11
America still needs to re-discover itself as a Republic rather than a police force with a profit center and the...