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Radicalism

What’s wrong with “rights”

Reactionary chic

How the nineties right recycles the bombast of the sixties left

The Left, Lost in the Politics of Identity

by Todd Gitlin,

Adapted from “From Universality to Difference: Notes on the Fragmentation of the Idea of the Left.” Originally appeared in the Winter 1993 issue of Contention: Debates in Society, Culture, and…

The green threat to nature

by Martin W. Lewis,

Power, freedom, and the failure of theory

by John P. Diggins,

The Weathermen, twenty years on

by Peter Marin,

Brief reviews

by J. B.,

From “Letter to a new leftist, from a tired liberal,” March 1966

by John Fischer,

The absent Left

by Jeff Greenfield,

Feminists and other useful fanatics

by Garry Wills,

Paranoia in Power

by Bo Burlingham,

In which Tom Charles Huston tells an ex-Weatherman how he failed to outsmart the FBI’s Badge No. 1—and thereby inspired the White House Plumbers