online archive
10:00AM
OCT 26 2007
Generation on fire
From Social Policy (reg. req.), a review of Activism, Inc.: How the Outsourcing of Grassroots Campaigns is Strangling Progressive Politics in America by Dana Fisher; and a review of After the Storm: Black Intellectuals Explore the Meaning of Hurricane Katrina. A review of Generation on Fire: Voices of Protest from the 1960s—An Oral History by Jeff Kisseloff. From Variant, a review of Realizing the Impossible: Art Against Authority; Do it Yourself: A Handbook for Changing our World; Rebel Alliances: The Means and Ends of Contemporary British Anarchisms by Benjamin Franks; and radical education in a proto-fascist era: A review of Against the New Authoritarianism: Politics after Abu Ghraib by Henry Giroux. Alan Wolfe on mobilizing the Religious Left: Walter Rauschenbusch's Christianity and the Social Crisis argues that one can be a dedicated Christian and a social reformer at the same time. A review of The Liberal Moment: The McGovern Insurgency and the Identity Crisis of the Democratic Party by Bruce Miroff.
