Tom Sugrue
Historian, urbanist, scholar of public policy, race, and inequality. Silver Professor, NYU. Dad, stepdad, dog dad. Native Detroiter, longtime Philadelphian, honorary Chicagoan, gringo Carioca, wannabe Parisian, and second-time New Yorker.
How Republicans Echo Antisemitic Tropes Despite Declaring Support for Israelwww.nytimes.com Prominent Republicans have seized on campus protests to assail what they say is antisemitism on the left. But for years they have mainstreamed anti-Jewish rhetoric.
College Presidents Behaving Badlywww.chronicle.com Calling the police doesn’t dampen protests. It accelerates them, often with devastating consequences.
Student Revolt and the Curtailing of Critical Speechthomaszimmer.substack.com The violent crackdown on campus protests reveals an alliance between the Right and mainstream elites who are driven by reactionary impulses and status anxieties
“2020 Isn’t Over”: Eric Klinenberg on Pandemics, Politics, and Solidaritywww.publicbooks.org "What we needed was wisdom and clarity. What we got was chaos and confusion."
Koyaanisqatsiwww.criterion.com An unconventional work in every way, Godfrey Reggio’s Koyaanisqatsi was nevertheless a sensation when it was released in 1983. This first work of The Qatsi Trilogy wordlessly surveys the rapidly chang...
Obsessing on gaffes is lazy journalismwww.stopthepresses.news We should be less concerned about minor things politicians do accidentally than major things they do on purpose.
El verdadero Martin Luther Kingjacobinlat.com No existe figura en la historia reciente de Estados Unidos cuyo recuerdo esté más distorsionado que el de Martin Luther King Jr.
Opinion | The Secret of Trump’s Appeal Isn’t Authoritarianismwww.nytimes.com It’s moderation.
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