Appeal to Reason 25 Years In These Times

by Aaron, Craig; McChesney, Robert W.; Weinstein, James

• ISBN13: 9781583222751
• ISBN10: 1583222758
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-05-07
• Publisher: Seven Stories Press

Summary

Featuring articles from a host of contributors, "Appeal to Reason" is an anniversary collection from "the most creative and challenging news magazine on the American left" (Cornel West).

Author Biography

CRAIG AARON is managing editor of In These Times. His writing also has appeared in The Progressive, The Memphis Flyer and Internet Underground.

Table of Contents

Foreword	xiii
James Weinstein
Editor's Note	xv
Craig Aaron
Introduction Why We Need in these Times	xviii
Robert W. McChesney
A Job Whose Time Has Come	xx
James Weinstein
A New Majority Awaiting the second Coming of Liberalism	2	(16)
John B. Judis
Q&A: Ron Dellums	4	(2)
John B. Judis
Carter Kills Populist Hopes Early	6	(1)
Alan Wolfe
No to Liberalism by a Landslide	7	(3)
John B. Judis
The Scarlet Letter	10	(2)
David Moberg
My Date with the Transition Team	12	(3)
Pat Aufderheide
Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Republican Party	15	(3)
Bill Boisvert
Know Your Enemy Right-Wing Extremism and The Politics of our time	18	(16)
Rick Perlstein
Sugar Daddy Welch	20	(1)
Barry Stavro
The Conservative Movement	21	(2)
Sidney Blumenthal
Right-Wing Confidential	23	(3)
Joel Bleifuss
The New Old Right vs. The Old New right	26	(5)
Daniel Lazare
By Our Mark shall ye Know Us!	31	(3)
Terry Southern
Stick and Win Forging a Real Progressive Alternative	34	(16)
John Nichols
Low Vote and the Left	36	(1)
James Weinstein
On the Road with Barry Commoner	37	(1)
David Moberg
Mayor Bernie Sanders Speaks	38	(3)
Bernie Sanders
David Moberg
Washington Victory Ushers in New Era	41	(1)
James Weinstein
Face Reality	42	(2)
Joel Bleifuss
Nader's Moment	44	(3)
Robert W. McChesney
Building a Citizen Politics	47	(3)
Sen. Paul Wellstone
Doing It for Ourselves Can Feminism Break Through the Class Ceiling?	50	(12)
Barbara Ehrenreich
In Our Own Image	52	(2)
Barbara Ehrenreich
Politics of Abortion	54	(1)
Ellen Willis
(m)Otherhood	55	(4)
Susan J. Douglas
Operation Queen Esther	59	(3)
Paula Kamen
Color Bind Radicalism and the Black Freedom Struggle	62	(16)
Salim Muwakkil
Divided They Stand	64	(2)
David Moberg
Farrakhan Nation	66	(2)
Salim Muwakkil
Race and Candor	68	(1)
Salim Muwakkil
Ganging Together	69	(2)
Salim Muwakkil
Face the Nation	71	(2)
Salim Muwakkil
Talking About Race	73	(3)
Salim Muwakkil
Don't Go There	76	(2)
William Upski Wimsatt
The Return of Juan Seguin Latinos and the Remaking of American Politics	78	(18)
Juan Gonzalez
Crossing the Frontier	80	(2)
Carlos Morton
Seeds of Justice	82	(3)
John Gardner
California Steaming	85	(2)
Marc Cooper
Vieques Libre!	87	(3)
Juan Gonzalez
Return to South Central	90	(4)
Juan Gonzalez
Mexico 2061	94	(2)
Ilan Stavans
Pride and Politics Whatever Happened to Gay Liberation?	96	(16)
Doug Ireland
Founder of a Movement	98	(2)
Bruce Mirken
On Their Own	100	(1)
Joshua Dressler
Gay Body Politics	101	(3)
Richard Kaye
Our Lips Are Sealed	104	(2)
David Futrelle
Lesbian Chic	106	(2)
Heather Zwicker
In Defense of Identity Politics	108	(2)
Martin Duberman
Back to the Future	110	(2)
Jeffrey L. Reynolds
Stuck but Stirring Is there Still Power in a Union?	112	(16)
David Moberg
As Patco Goes, So Goes the Union	114	(1)
David Moberg
Austin City Limits	115	(3)
David Moberg
Down in Coal Country	118	(1)
David Moberg
Cleaning House	119	(2)
Zack Nauth
War Zone	121	(4)
David Moberg
Roll the Union On	125	(3)
Nelson Lichtenstein
Gang Green The Changing Face of Environmentalism	128	(20)
Jeffrey St. Clair
Crimes Against Nature	130	(2)
Harvey Wasserman
Under the Rainbow	132	(1)
Diana Johnstone
Alaska Aftermath	133	(1)
Terry Carr
Under Attack	134	(4)
David Helvarg
Planet Care	138	(1)
David Brower
The Myth of Living Safely in a Toxic World	139	(5)
Sandra Steingraber
Now or Never	144	(4)
Bill McKibben
Color and Criminal Justice America's Incarceration Epidemic	148	(14)
Salim Muwakkil
Move Massacre	150	(2)
Alice Walker
New Medium, Old Message	152	(2)
Nell Irvin Painter
The Other Side of Zero Tolerance	154	(6)
Salim Muwakkil
Innocence on Death Row	160	(2)
Craig Aaron
The Great Divide Poverty in a Gilded Age	162	(14)
Annette Fuentes
Women's Common Ground	164	(2)
Frances Fox Piven
Homeless on the Range	166	(2)
Louis Dubose
Slaves of New York	168	(2)
Annette Fuentes
Move 'em Out	170	(3)
Neil Demause
Mother Courage	173	(3)
Ariel Gore
Another World Globalization and Its Discontents	176	(16)
David Moberg
The Morning Nafta	178	(1)
David Moberg
Unhappy Birthday	179	(2)
David Moberg
After Seattle	181	(3)
David Moberg
The Insider	184	(2)
David Moberg
Enronomics 101	186	(3)
David Moberg
After the Fall	189	(3)
Dean Baker
Beyond Anti-Capitalism Notes for a Future Manifesto	192	(20)
G. Pascal Zachary
Snapshots of a World Coming Apart at the Seams	194	(2)
Eduardo Galeano
Democracy's Slow Death	196	(2)
Noam Chomsky
Does Globalization Matter?	198	(2)
Doug Henwood
Water War Zone	200	(3)
Jim Shultz
Trading on Terrorism	203	(6)
Naomi Klein
Take It to the Streets	209	(3)
Naomi Klein
New World Disorder Globalization Versus Global Consciousness	212	(14)
James North
The Biko Tapes	214	(2)
No One Knows How Many	216	(1)
Wilfred Burchett
Letter from Zimbabwe	217	(2)
James North
Twist of Fate	219	(2)
Alisa Joyce
Up from Ground Zero	221	(2)
Matthew Jardine
Free at Last?	223	(3)
James North
Revolution from Above Russia from Perestroika to Putin	226	(14)
Fred Weir
Living Perestroika	228	(2)
James Weinstein
The Occidental Tourist	230	(2)
Diana Johnstone
The Second Russian Revolution	232	(2)
James Weinstein
The Kitchen Counter-Revolution	234	(2)
Fred Weir
The Kremlin War Machine	236	(2)
Fred Weir
What's the Big Idea?	238	(2)
Fred Weir
Europe's Nightmare Lessons from the Decade of Milosevic	240	(18)
Paul Hockenos
The Night of Jubilation When East Met West	242	(3)
Gordon Lewis
Coming Apart at the Seams	245	(1)
Diana Johnstone
The Case for Intervention in the Balkans	246	(2)
Paul Hockenos
Town Without Pity	248	(3)
Paul Hockenos
The New Military Humanism?	251	(4)
Noam Chomsky
States of Denial	255	(3)
Paul Hockenos
Shifting Sands The Myth of Islam Vs. the West	258	(14)
Fred Halliday
Defending Israel and Palestine	260	(1)
James Weinstein
The Idea of Palestine	261	(1)
Edward Said
Q&A: Ayatollah Khomeini	262	(2)
Diana Johnstone
Afghan Tragedy	264	(1)
Diana Johnstone
Past Imperfect	265	(1)
Fred Halliday
Collateral Damage	266	(4)
John Pilger
False Choices	270	(2)
Arundhati Roy
Colossus of the North Tragedy and Peril in `Our Backyard'	272	(18)
Ana Carrigan
Never Surrender	274	(2)
David Helvarg
Back in Guatemala Again	276	(1)
Allan Nairn
Sanctuary in the Heartland	277	(1)
Beth Maschinot
Prisoner #01579-017	278	(3)
Father Roy Bourgeois
Eyes on the Prize	281	(2)
Dan La Botz
The U.S. Embargo and the Wrath of God	283	(5)
Juan Gonzalez
Big Stick Shtick	288	(2)
Michael Moore
Armageddon It Nuclear Dangers Past and Present	290	(16)
Jason Vest
Nuclear Backlash	292	(2)
Mark Hertsgaard
No Fail-Safe	294	(2)
Lawrence Weschler
Catch F-22	296	(2)
David Evans
Nuking It Out	298	(2)
Kalpana Sharma
Star Wars: Episode Two	300	(4)
Jeffrey St. Clair
Armed and Dangerous	304	(2)
Michael T. Klare
October Surprises A Tale of Treason, Propaganda and the Press	306	(20)
Joel Bleifuss
Did Reagan Steal the 1980 Election?	308	(2)
Barbara Honegger
Jim Naureckas
Is the North Network Cocaine Connected?	310	(2)
Dennis Bernstein
Vince Bielski
Media Mindset	312	(3)
Joel Bleifuss
Q&A: Gary Sick	315	(1)
Joel Bleifuss
Flack Attack	316	(2)
Joel Bleifuss
Muddy Waters	318	(1)
Robert Parry
Media Snow Job	319	(5)
Joel Bleifuss
Home Is Where the Enemy Is	324	(2)
Christopher Hitchens
Get the Picture Why Cultural Journalism is More Important Than Ever	326	(14)
Pat Aufderheide
Q&A: Pauline Kaek	328	(1)
Pat Aufderheide
The Empire's New Games	329	(1)
Ariel Dorfman
Publish and Perish	330	(2)
Pat Aufderheide
Info Bandits	332	(3)
Jim Naureckas
The Toys Are Us	335	(5)
Matt Roth
Red vs. Blue How the Culture Wars Killed Populism	340	(20)
Chris Lehmann
Political Correctness and Identity Politics	342	(2)
Barbara Epstein
Sell the Kids for Food	344	(2)
Scott McLemee
Textual Reckoning	346	(3)
Thomas Frank
Cynical and Proud	349	(3)
Chris Lehmann
Operation Infinite Jest	352	(3)
Chris Lehmann
The Secret of Their Success	355	(5)
Bill Boisvert
Embracing Utopia Now is the Moment for New visions	360	(14)
David Graeber
Prison Camp of the Mind	362	(3)
David Moberg
1984: Are We There Yet?	365	(1)
Christopher Lasch
What Kind of Change?	366	(2)
Michael Harrington
The New Language of Protest	368	(4)
David Graeber
Love Thy Neighbor	372	(2)
Slavoj Zizek
Contributors	374	(7)
Index	381