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		<title>Roundtable on Education and the Cold War</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over at the United States Intellectual History weblog there is a roundtable discussion on my book, Education and the Cold War: The Battle for the American School, including reviews by Joe Petrulionis and Tim Lacy. My comments follow.  The roundtable includes, among other items, a discussion of the merits of Marxist theory in intellectual historiography.
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		<title>Obama, Dailykos, Pragmatism, Education and the Cold War</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:04:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Dailykos bloggers have been hammering Obama&#8217;s recent rightward shift.  One blogger, interestingly enough, even used a deep analysis of my book Education and the Cold War (regarding the differences between good and bad pragmatism) to frame his argument towards Obama&#8217;s stance on FISA.  See the article here.  This blogger (Cassiodorus) argued&#8211;again, using my book&#8211;that pragmatism is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=withinempire.wordpress.com&blog=1024131&post=72&subd=withinempire&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stanley Fish is Wrong</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:59:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Academician and New York Times regular Stanley Fish is, again, involved in a debate about whether or not professors should be explicitly political in their teaching.  This current debate began when Fish, in print, objected to the recent creation of a Chair in Conservative Thought and Policy at the University of Colorado, arguing that there [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=withinempire.wordpress.com&blog=1024131&post=71&subd=withinempire&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Susan Jacoby, The Age of American Unreason: A Critique</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 14:57:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am currently reading Susan Jacoby&#8217;s widely celebrated The Age of American Unreason in my spare time, and am 3 chapters in.  So far, the book deserves serious criticism, especially from historians, since she makes grandiose claims about the history of unreason (or anti-intellectualism) in the United States, and yet she willfully ignores anything written on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=withinempire.wordpress.com&blog=1024131&post=69&subd=withinempire&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Obama, Niebuhr, Zizek?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2008 13:14:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the blog that I co-edit with a number of other US intellectual historians, a compelling discussion has developed in response to a piece I posted.  It includes references to Obama&#8217;s &#8220;bitter&#8221; comments, Niebuhr&#8217;s Christian realism, and Slavoj Zizek&#8217;s interpretation of fundamentalism.  Check it out:
USIH as a Lens to Understanding the Election
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		<title>White Men Will Not Save Brown Women</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:30:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ideas are often expressed on this blog and elsewhere in the blogosphere that you might find offensive, irrational, unproven, wrong, or just plain goofy.  This is a good thing.  We need to read ideas that appear offensive, irrational, unproven, wrong, or goofy.  We need more heresy.  “Polite society”—otherwise known as the corporate media—does not allow for heretical thinking, shoving [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=withinempire.wordpress.com&blog=1024131&post=67&subd=withinempire&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Weather Underground, Revised</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:55:24 +0000</pubDate>
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This book review originally appeared in the journal Socialism and Democracy Vol. 21, No. 1 (March 2007), 143-147.
Andrew Hartman
Book Reviewed: Dan Berger, Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity (Oakland: AK Press, 2006). 432 pages.
The Weather Underground&#8211;an armed, clandestine, white revolutionary group that formed out of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) 1969 break-up&#8211;is currently a fashionable [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=withinempire.wordpress.com&blog=1024131&post=66&subd=withinempire&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Empowering Africa&#8217;s Peacemakers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 15:14:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From today&#8217;s Washington Post:  
The Feb. 7 editorial &#8220;Darfur&#8217;s Chaos Spreads&#8221; called on the international community to exert more pressure on Chadian leader Idriss D¿by to stem the current wave of violence in North Africa.
But what Sudan and Chad most desperately need is a diverse group of highly educated, indigenous peacemakers who are committed to regional [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=withinempire.wordpress.com&blog=1024131&post=65&subd=withinempire&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Marx and Rawls, A Dialogue</title>
		<link>http://withinempire.wordpress.com/2008/02/12/marx-and-rawls-a-dialogue/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:08:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the realm of social and political philosophy Marx is unavoidable.  Robert Heilbroner wrote, 


We turn to Marx, therefore, not because he is infallible, but because he is inescapable.  Everyone who wishes to pursue the kind of investigation that Marx opened up, finds Marx there ahead of him, and must thereafter agree with or confute, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=withinempire.wordpress.com&blog=1024131&post=63&subd=withinempire&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Education and the Cold War: The Battle for the American School</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2008 21:34:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Readers: My book is published and available for purchase at the Palgrave Macmillan website, or Amazon and other bookseller sites (see Best Web Buys).  Here&#8217;s some information from  the publisher:      
   
   
Shortly after the Russians launched Sputnik in 1957, Hannah Arendt quipped that “only in America could a crisis in education actually [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=withinempire.wordpress.com&blog=1024131&post=62&subd=withinempire&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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