Adolph Reed Jr.
Adolph Reed Jr. is professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania. For the March 2014 issue of Harper's magazine, he wrote, "Nothing Left: The Long, Slow Surrender of American Liberals." And more recently, along with Mark Dudzic, he wrote the essay, "The Crisis of Labour and the Left in the United States," which appeared in the Socialist Register (2015/Vol. 51).
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Views Saturday, March 30, 2019 Vietnam to Venezuela: US Interventionism and the Failure of the Left Vietnam came to my attention when I was maybe eleven or twelve, during the last years of the Eisenhower administration. There must have been some uptick that prompted public anticommunist saber-rattling about what really was already the U.S. war there. My father explained to me what was going on,... Read more |
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Views Sunday, December 23, 2018 Which Side Are You On? Miguel Salazar in a recent essay purporting to address the question " Do America’s Socialists Have a Race Problem?" ( The New Republic , December 20, 2018), seconds a perspective on current debates within the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) that answers his question in the affirmative. DSA,... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, July 11, 2018 Common Ground: For Secure Elections and True National Security Many Americans remain deeply concerned about reports of Russian interference with the 2016 election. Meanwhile, relations between the United States and Russia are at their lowest and most dangerous point in several decades. For the sake of democracy at home and true national security, we must reach... Read more |
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Views Sunday, June 25, 2017 Monumental Rubbish: With the Statues Torn Down, What Next for New Orleans? I’ve been in New Orleans since May 1. I came to visit my mother, who died on May 4, five months shy of her 95th birthday and was buried on May 10. That means I’ve been here through much of this latest round of public cavil over the city’s decision to remove the four most conspicuous monuments to... Read more |
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Views Thursday, August 18, 2016 Vote for the Lying Neoliberal Warmonger: It’s Important In 1991, former Klansman and American Nazi Party functionary David Duke ran for governor of Louisiana and made the runoff election against Democrat Edwin Edwards, the popular but scandal-plagued three-term former governor. Duke had made the runoff between the two top vote-getters since no one... Read more |
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Views Thursday, August 11, 2016 The Battle Over Trump's Taj Mahal Is a Battle for Us All In Atlantic City right now workers at the Trump Taj Mahal casino hotel, members of UNITE HERE Local 54 , are waging a struggle that should make it one of those crystallizing flashpoints that garner national attention and mobilize support from the entire labor movement, progressives, and working... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, December 22, 2015 Sanders Challenges Neoliberal Stranglehold with Call for Free Higher Education The recent New York Times op-ed by N. Gregory Mankiw, " Three Reasons for Those Hefty College Tuition Bills ," is pure ideological huffing and puffing of the sort we'd expect from a former chair of George W. Bush’s Council of Economic Advisors. It's just a bushel of the same old free-market... Read more |
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Views Thursday, October 22, 2015 Higher Ed for Bernie The proposal put forth by U.S. senator and presidential candidate Bernie Sanders for free public higher education has spurred a new initiative called ' Higher Ed for Bernie ' that looks to operate as a kind of movement wing of his campaign, focused on free higher education. Supporters of the effort... Read more |
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Views Saturday, August 29, 2015 Hurricane Katrina and Bernie Sanders: From Neoliberal Disaster to 'Political Revolution' The 10th anniversary of the devastation of New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina has been an occasion for reflection on that horrific event and the state of the city’s recovery. Much of that commemoration, especially locally, has centered on the theme of resilience . This is... Read more |
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Views Sunday, August 16, 2015 Does Chicago Need a Katrina? A Response. [The following piece is in response to Kristen McQueary's column in the Chicago Tribune on how Chicago could use a Hurricane Katrina.] Kristen McQueary’s attempt to walk back from her scurrilous column of last Thursday extolling the wonderful changes that the devastation of Katrina brought to New... Read more |