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5 Jun 2014, 8:05 am
Steny Hoyer, Sherrilyn Ifill of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Abigail Thernstrom, Ilya Shapiro, Michael Kazin, and others, including myself. [read post]
26 Jan 2014, 7:19 pm by Steve Shiffrin
The magazine has served as a prophetic voice of the old left featuring the writing of Michael Harrington, Irving Howe, Lewis Coser, Michael Walzer, Mitchell Cohen, Michael Kazin, Hannah Arendt, Katha Pollit and Martha Nussbaum among many others. [read post]
14 Oct 2013, 4:42 am by Dan Ernst
  The book appears in the series Politics and Culture in Modern America, edited by Margot Canaday, Glenda Gilmore, Michael Kazin, and Thomas J. [read post]
28 Jan 2013, 4:59 pm by VALL Blog Master
He could devote an entire section to critics, since he has pieces on Dwight Macdonald, Irving Howe, Alfred Kazin, and James Wolcott. [read post]
3 Sep 2012, 7:37 am by Anders Walker
  Long before Marx, American law steadfastly prevented the redistribution of wealth along egalitarian lines (incidentally, this is how Michael Kazin defines the Left in his new book, American Dreamers: How the Left Changed a Nation (New York: Knopf, 2012)). [read post]
18 Jul 2012, 5:48 am by Evan Schaeffer
AT the New Republic, Michael Kazin on "Why Businessmen Don’t Get Elected President"-- [A] talent for developing private companies and making big profits seldom translates into wooing a majority of voters or governing a contentious republic. [read post]
30 Nov 2011, 7:50 pm by fuzzyone
The difference between the focussed, agenda-driven campaign fought by the environmentalists and the free-form, leaderless one waged by the Occupiers, the historian Michael Kazin says, is that the environmentalists grasped the famous point made by Dr. [read post]
24 Oct 2011, 5:28 am by Gerard Magliocca
 The other panelists will be Ken Kersch, a professor of political science at BC, Michael Kazin, a history professor at Georgetown who wrote a well received biography of Bryan a few years ago, and Elizabeth Sanders, a professor of Government at Cornell. [read post]
4 Oct 2011, 9:09 pm
"Not solely because it would give the movement what it wants," says Michael Kazin, "but also because a firm majority of Americans still support the right to choose in all or most circumstances—just as a majority back in the 1920s probably thought it was all right to buy a drink (the polling business did not yet exist). [read post]
27 Sep 2011, 6:51 am by Timothy Zick
  As Michael Kazin, a history professor at Georgetown University, observed in a recent op-ed, ”unionists and other stern critics of corporate power and government cutbacks have failed to organize a serious movement against the people and policies that bungled the United States into recession. [read post]
26 Sep 2011, 5:44 am by pete.black@gmail.com (Peter Black)
" asks history professor michael kazin in the @NYTimes http://j.mp/qyhmy2 i hope so, i've been waiting for this for years: "Yes, Google Drive Is Coming. [read post]
25 Sep 2011, 2:00 am by Karen Tani
  According to the review, the book should appeal to historians, scientists, and engineers.Also covered: American Dreamers: How the Left Changed a Nation (Knopf), by Michael Kazin (here).A new issue of the New York Review of Books is out. [read post]
9 Sep 2011, 5:45 am by Mary L. Dudziak
Magliocca, Professor of Law, Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis; Michael Kazin, Professor of History, Georgetown University; Kenneth Kersch, Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Clough Center for Constitutional Democracy, Boston College; M. [read post]
9 Aug 2011, 9:27 pm by Ilya Somin
Eugene’s chapter argues that patriotism doesn’t justify imposing a legal ban on flag burning.The other contributors include well-known scholars like Michael Kazin, George Kateb, and Thomas Sowell. [read post]
30 Jul 2011, 1:04 pm by Ken Kersch
This October, Boston College’s Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy will host an interdisciplinary roundtable on Gerard Magliocca’s new book The Tragedy of William Jennings Bryan: Constitutional Law and the Politics of Backlash (Yale, 2011), featuring Michael Kazin (History, Georgetown), M. [read post]
17 Jul 2011, 8:25 pm by Buce
Reviewing Richard White's new book about the history of the railroads, Michael Kazin longs for an Edenic yesterday before Hayek and Schumpeter and the equivocal blessings of creative destruction: At the end of his powerful book, ... [read post]