Max Blumenthal on Eric Hoffer
In this video, author Max Blumenthal, who covers the Religious Right, discusses a fundamental resource for thoughtful progressives: The True Believer by Eric Hoffer.
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Progressive Book Club Up And Running
The Progressive Book Club is on YouTube, where they offer interviews with politically progressive authors.
The Conservatives Have No Clothes
Greg Anrig works for a prominent think tank. That sounds like an asset, but it turns into a burden when Anrig cannot break away from logical arguments about how what ideas people should support. If only Anrig could embrace the power of persuasion, he’d be a lot closer to providing a useful plan for progressive regrouping. In politics, being correct matters much less than being perceived as correct.
Remembering 2004 Reasons to Boot Bush
This retrospective comes just as Irregular Times is releasing its new political reference guide, 2008 Reasons to Elect a Progressive President. This new book is not an update of the 2004 Reasons to Boot Bush. It’s new material written just for this year. It also includes a much more extensive discussion of political issues that the 2004 book did. 2008 Reasons to Elect a Progressive President is about three times as long as the 2004 reference guide, and so has had to be divided into two separate volumes: (See Volume One and Volume Two).
Evaluating the Strategies of Liberal Books
Al Franken wrote about timely events, but didn’t have much vision beyond the next year or two in his material. Satanic Panic was about events in the 1980s, but it was describing a cultural phenomenon that dates back to the Salem witch trials, and far beyond that
Eric Alterman Explains Why Liberal Is A Good Word
Perhaps we need a travelogue for why we have become liberals, or how we have moved within the land of liberalism. For that travel, a field guide to the different varieties of liberal might be useful too.
Austen’s Works More Than Complete On WGBH Series
Lovers of Jane Austen’s novels will want to tune in to PBS this year, which is playing an adaptation of every one of Jane Austen’s works, plus a movie of biographical fiction based upon her life, Miss Austen Regrets. Persuasion played a week ago. Northanger Abbey was on last night. Both of [...]
Nibbles The Cat Reads Pride and Prejudice
In this original video production by Irregular Books, Nibbles the Cat introduces himself and begins reading Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. If Pride and Prejudice can be made into a Bollywood movie, why not a cat?
