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Tag: Chris Hedges

  • Rick Wilson Blames Progressives for 2024

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    Reading Time: 7 minutesRick Wilson’s interview with Harry Litman is just one example of the wrong-headed analyses of Kamala Harris’s loss that have been making the rounds since the 2024 election. For the most part, Rick Wilson blames progressives for 2024. At 21:42 in the video, Litman asks Wilson what the focus should be for…

  • American Classics and the Poetry of Democracy

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesHarold Kaplan said ‘humanist aspirations’ are the dominant American intellectual tradition. But an abstract notion of democratic humanism is only part of the story. Kaplan explains democratic humanism in the context of writers of the American classics: Emerson, Thoreau, Cooper, Poe, D. H. Lawrence, Hawthorne, Melville, Whitman, Twain, and Henry James. They…

  • Apologies to the Green Party

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteI realize that I got off on the wrong foot on the last post. I blame the fact that I approached the subject backwards. When I saw that first Chris Hedges interview with Ralph Nader, I didn’t get the part where Hedges was supporting the Green Party. I thought he was…

  • 2016 and the Curious Case of the Third Party Left

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesI’ve been enjoying the political commentary on YouTube since I discovered it a few weeks ago, but I’m sorry to have to report a disturbing pattern. Previously I questioned the wisdom of Sanders supporters pushing voters to a third party candidate.  I was talking about a YouTube blogger that I haven’t mentioned…

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