To the Vitamin-D-deprived, Last year, Norman Podhoretz, neocon pioneer and Commentary editor from 1960 to 1995, published the tauntingly titled book Why Are Jews Liberal?. He might have come to different conclusions (or even a subtler question) had he more closely read Michael Staub’s Torn at the Roots: The Crisis of Jewish Liberalism in Postwar [...]
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Q & A: Michael Staub, Postwar Americanist
Posted in african-americans, Jews, Lazy Scholar Interview, politics, psychology, tagged 1960s, interview, jewish, Judaism, Michael Staub, norman podhoretz, psychiatry, radicalism on July 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
An Archival Pride Parade
Posted in film, LGBT, periodicals, politics, video, tagged gay, gay history, LGBT pride, pride parade on June 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Dear air conditioner enthusiasts, You may have heard that June is LGBT Pride Month in these United States, marked by rainbow-banner parades in cities across the country. Boston’s passed a few Saturdays ago (favorite sign: “gender is a drag,” courtesy of a Traniwreck marcher), but I’ll confess, the parade that still means the most to [...]
Yale Radicals, Juvenile Offenders, and Henry Miller’s Bathroom
Posted in books, college, film, politics, technology, television, video, tagged henry miller, sixties on February 19, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Dear viewers like you, The website Snagfilms usually gets pegged as “Hulu for documentaries”—a pretty generous comparison when I think about how many episodes of 30 Rock I’ve watched on our Mac. But while Hulu gives a chance for major TV networks to distribute shows both popular and flagging, Snagfilms shines its spotlight on filmmakers with [...]
AIDS Artwork and Activism
Posted in advertising, illness, LGBT, photography, politics, visual culture, tagged ACT UP, AIDS, World AIDS day on November 30, 2009 | 3 Comments »
To those of you blaming tryptophan for your Monday morning lag, Tomorrow, December 1, marks World AIDS Day, which seems like a good moment to point to some online resources about the history of the illness, its impact, and the art and activisim it inspired. The Carpenter Center here at Harvard has organized an extraordinary [...]
Eisenhower and Bush Sr., Now Kid-Friendlier!
Posted in advertising, cartoons, politics, video on November 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Dear reluctant researchers, As you ponder the results of yesterday’s elections, I thought you might appreciate a visit from the ghosts of political campaigns past. No, I haven’t summoned the spirit of Fiorello Laguardia again. But I have uncovered a fascinating archive from the Museum of the Moving Image: “The Living Room Candidate,” which includes [...]
Tippecanoe and Dead Presidents, Too
Posted in politics, visual culture, tagged Ann Douglas, Cornell, death, lithographs, memory, politics, william henry harrison on October 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Salutations to the slothful, Travel back with me today to the year 1840, when William Henry Harrison led the Whig party to the White House! Thanks to Cornell’s delightful (and remarkably easy to navigate) Political Americana collection, you, too, can relive Harrison’s glorious slaughter of the Native Americans at the Battle of Tippecanoe with this [...]
Queers On the March
Posted in LGBT, periodicals, photography, politics, visual culture, tagged activism, coming out, CUNY, gay, homosexuality, lesbians, NYPL, periodicals, photography, protest on October 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
To my fellow followers of Rip Van Winkle, As some of you may know, Sunday, October 11 marks National Coming Out Day, a day for everyone to show their queer or queer-allied colors—and, in this year’s case, march on Washington for marriage equality. (You can read about the history of Coming Out Day—or COD, if [...]
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