Fascism Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow?
Philip Roth is a gifted Jewish-American writer whose novels have entertained and educated an American and international reading public for four decades. Paul Berman is a former New Lefty and anarchist-oriented intellectual who eventually became a MacArthur Fellowship winner, a pundit, a talking head, an interpreter of a generation that wanted to be interpreted.
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John Edwards vs. Darth Vader
When Dick Cheney confessed to Gwen Ifill of PBS, the moderator of last night’s vice presidential debate, that he did not know anything about the struggles faced by African American women with AIDS, his admission spoke directly to one of the defining characteristics of the Bush administration: the decided lack of interest in or concern for the difficulties faced by the most oppressed, most troubled sections of the US population.
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5 Steps to Defeating Bush
It's now time to roll up our sleeves -- each and every one of us -- and get to work. There will be nearly 10 million of you who will read this letter either on my list or on my site. An army of ten million cannot be defeated! The time for hitting the snooze button has passed, voter registration deadlines start Monday and we only get one shot at this!!!
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Capitalism isn’t Democracy Afterall
In an ironic article squeezed out for a recent issue of Newsweek, Michael Hirsh and Frank Brown ('Back to the U.S.S.R.?,' September 27, 2004) note the recent rightward, anti-democratic shift of the Putin government in Russia.
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