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Clashing Visions, New Challenges

A common criticism from the left is that President Obama speaks only the language of universalism – the framing of social problems and articulation of political solutions that apply across the population to the neglect of a targeted focus on…

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More to come

Below is an excerpt from a longer post that will appear on my blog tomorrow. In thinking about the outcome of this election, it seems clear – to me anyway – that the way many white voters processed the words,…

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On complicating “class”

What Bernie, some of Bernie’s supporters, and the new economic populists haven’t absorbed is that – call it what you want – other forms of oppression or issues of identity or democratic rights broadly understood are organic to class formation,…

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Too much democratic and class sense

Over the past two weeks, many have challenged the notion that the election signified a “working class revolt against the elites.” This discussion is no academic matter and its resolution will will have a major bearing on the conduct of…

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Trump more like Putin than Hitler or Mussolini

This may go against the grain of what I have read of late, but my suspicion is if we want to find a form of governance and rule that might give us a clue as to what we might expect…