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: 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 9/11America still needs to re-discover itself as a Republic rather than a police force with a profit center and the...
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Published in: openEconomyTea Party history: it was anti big-business
The Boston Tea Party's history of trying to properly separate government and business holds serious lessons for...
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