Repression is certainly in the air, its effects likely to be as chilling as intended: people are afraid and have good reasons to be afraid. Reviews of two recent books on Elizabeth Gurley Flynn and the Long War Against American Communism.
As an Australian who wrote about the demonstrations while on campus, I gave my phone a superficial clean before flying to the U.S. I underestimated what I was up against.
Trumpism is only Bidenism carried to its logical conclusion. Joe Biden was in many ways heir to the militaristic liberalism of Wilson and Truman—especially visible in his efforts to revive the military Keynesianism of the Cold War.
The Little Tramp’s legal woes were more over-the-top than a Bruckheimer film
The targeting of foreign students at Columbia, Tufts, Georgetown, and other universities has led to outcry among academics, particularly as the ICE abductions have taken place alongside threats from the Trump administration to pull funding...
A Brand-New Protest Format Catches on in a Very Big Way (1965), Wasn’t That a Time? Yes, It Sure Was (1995), A Catchy Name for a Rotten Program (1950), Texas Racists Throw the Book at Student Protesters (1960)
Trump/Musk are pursuing the collapse of the American constitutional model, fundamentally altering the terrain on which the US left operates, requiring an oppositional politics the country has not seen since the time of FDR.
Rioters in Harlem Win Concessions (1935), A Big Win for White-Collar Strikers (2000), A Century of Classroom Censorship (1925), Witch-Hunt Targets Get a Very Belated Apology (1980), The Long Road from Selma (1965)
A Protest that Congress Can’t Ignore (1990), ¡Breonna Taylor, Presente! (2020), A McCarthy Victim’s Belated Vindication (1950), Happy Sunshine Week!, Herbie Hancock’s Early Hit (1965), When a Postal Strike Was a National Emergency (1970)
The impact can linger not just for years but decades.
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