Richard Hofstadter
Lippmann's Ghost: Barack Obama, Anti-intellectualism and the Way Forward
Lippmann's Ghost - 12th Nov 2010
An idea has been rattling around inside my head since the mid-term Elections, which I have been leaning on to help me make sense of the Democrats' meltdown. It's Richard Hofstadter’s notion of “anti-intellectualism in America,” a…
Read more >>Wrong Turn
OpEdNews - 21st Jun 2010
While there ha always been disaffection from political administrations or religious movements (Jesus was himself expressing disaffection with the Sanhedrin, the ruling council of the ancient Jewish nation), for the most part spokespersons for ear…
Read more >>How the Democrats got to be the way they are
Open Left - 19th Jun 2010
(More history from John Emerson - promoted by Paul Rosenberg ) The Democratic Party established itself in more or less its present form roughly between 1945 and 1955. The Civil Rights and Anti-War movements of the sixties severely challenged the…
Read more >>Boston tea parties past and present :
The New Yorker - 1st Jun 2010The Boston Tea Party Ship is not open to the public. She has no masts, no rigging, and hardly any decking. To clamber aboard, I had to climb down an iron ladder, cross two floating docks, crawl under a stretch of ropes, and walk a plank, barefoot…
Read more >>Keli Carender takes Tea Party's mixed messages to the streets
Seattle Times - 15th May 2010IF THE Tea Party movement is about the rage of the pitch-fork-wielding masses toward a Government run amok, then Keli Carender is its most unlikely heroine. She's 30, fresh-faced, Oxford educated and about as Seattle as you can get in her slacke…
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