Maurice Isserman

Maurice Isserman teaches history at Hamilton College. A founding member of Democratic Socialists of America, he is the author of The Other American: The Life of Michael Harrington. His next book on the history of the American Left, Reds: The Tragedy of American Communism, will be published by Basic Books in June 2024.

People rally in support of Palestinians in Times Square in New York on October 8, 2023.

Why I Just Quit DSA Why I Just Quit DSA

After over four decades as a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, one of the group’s founding members is leaving in sorrow and anger.

Oct 23, 2023 / Maurice Isserman

What Would Michael Harrington Say?

What Would Michael Harrington Say? What Would Michael Harrington Say?

Fifty years after the publication of The Other America, imagining that the author would find cause for hope—and dismay—in today's political culture.

Apr 25, 2012 / Feature / Maurice Isserman

Afterimages Afterimages

A hundred ways of looking at Che Guevara.

Jun 10, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Maurice Isserman

Letters Letters

Obama & the $ubprimers Cambridge, Mass.

Feb 21, 2008 / Letters / Our Readers and Maurice Isserman

Weather Reports Weather Reports

The radical individualism of the New Left was hardly un-American. A batch of new memoirs show the Weatherman followed a distinctly American tradition.

Jan 24, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Maurice Isserman

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