Scott Saul

Scott Saul, an associate professor of English and American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, is the author of Freedom Is, Freedom Ain’t: Jazz and the Making of the Sixties. He is writing a critical biography of Richard Pryor.

Currently

  • Suspended Sentences

    September 30, 2009

    Eliot Weinberger's enigmatic essays save him from becoming a prisoner of his polemical style.

  • Off Camera

    June 3, 2009

    Sweet Land of Liberty is a bold, if decidedly underdramatic, rewriting of civil rights history.

2008

  • Sweet Martin's Badass Song

    May 1, 2008 Subscribe

    Several new books on Martin Luther King take a closer look at the rhetoric and economic politics of the civil rights icon.

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Blogs

» Editor's Cut

New Web Column at The Washington Post | Every Tuesday, I'll be featuring progressive thinking about politics and challenging the Right in my new web column for The Washington Post. Read my first one here.
Katrina vanden Heuvel
Posted 4 minutes ago

» The Notion

When Snow Melts: Vancouver’s Olympic Crackdown | Anger is growing in Vancouver in advance of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Like Olympic clockwork, here comes the media crackdown.
Dave Zirin
17 Comments
Posted at 1:28 PM ET

» The Dreyfuss Report

The Mind-Boggling Stupidity of Michael Rubin | How an AEI apparatchik's love affair for Ahmed Chalabi blinds him to Chalabi's pro-Iran treachery.
Robert Dreyfuss
21 Comments

» The Beat

John Murtha: The Old Soldier Who Said "Bring the Troops Home" | His Iraq War debate with Dick Cheney highlighted the difference between the modern era's sunshine patriots and winter soldiers.
John Nichols
102 Comments

» Act Now!

Demand Question Time | Join the call for the President and Congress to implement regular Question Time sessions.
Peter Rothberg
48 Comments

» And Another Thing

How to Counterbalance Focus on the Family on Superbowl Sunday | Give to help low income girls and women.
Katha Pollitt
49 Comments

» Altercation

Slacker Friday | James O'Keefe and Alter-reviews.
Eric Alterman