No Kaddish for ‘The New Republic’ No Kaddish for ‘The New Republic’
From the very beginning, the magazine has shown an eagerness to suck up to power.
Dec 22, 2014 / Feature / D.D. Guttenplan
A Wake for Scottish Independence A Wake for Scottish Independence
The referendum result may have settled the question of Scottish independence. But the cost of winning it was to expose the ramshackle nature of the whole country’s constituti...
Sep 20, 2014 / D.D. Guttenplan
A Very British Divorce? A Very British Divorce?
If Scotland wakes up on Friday still bound to England, it will not be because solidarity or shared vision prevailed but rather fears of job loss, higher prices and higher taxes.
Sep 18, 2014 / D.D. Guttenplan
Will Scotland Choose Independence? Will Scotland Choose Independence?
Fed up with Thatcherite and New Labour politics, Scots have grown farther apart from their southern neighbors.
Sep 3, 2014 / D.D. Guttenplan
Who Is Jack O’Dell? Who Is Jack O’Dell?
The career of Hunter Pitts O’Dell is a crucial episode in the hidden history of American radicalism.
Aug 11, 2014 / Books & the Arts / D.D. Guttenplan
Tony Benn: The Best Prime Minister Britain Never Had Tony Benn: The Best Prime Minister Britain Never Had
Benn represented not just Labour’s conscience, but its soul—a living link to the radical England of the Levellers, the Chartists, the Suffragists and the Campaign for N...
Mar 14, 2014 / D.D. Guttenplan
Abie’s Yiddish Muse Abie’s Yiddish Muse
Like a lot of red revolutionaries, Abraham Cahan ended up to the right of where he began.
Jan 29, 2014 / Books & the Arts / D.D. Guttenplan
What Bill de Blasio Can Learn From New York City’s Last Radical Mayor What Bill de Blasio Can Learn From New York City’s Last Radical Mayor
Fiorello La Guardia also took office in a time of crisis—and he was open to new ideas and bold reforms.
Jan 7, 2014 / Books & the Arts / D.D. Guttenplan
Farewell, André the Giant Farewell, André the Giant
Imagine a world without the works of Noam Chomsky, Marguerite Duras, Barbara Ehrenreich, Michel Foucault, Edward Said or Studs Terkel. Then you will have some sense of the im...
Dec 2, 2013 / D.D. Guttenplan
Why Did a British Tabloid Call Ed Miliband’s Dad an Evil, Jewish Marxist ‘Who Hated Britain’? Why Did a British Tabloid Call Ed Miliband’s Dad an Evil, Jewish Marxist ‘Who Hated Britain’?
While the politics of the smear are straightforward, the cultural meaning is more complicated—and much nastier.
Oct 3, 2013 / D.D. Guttenplan