Dwight Macdonald, the Glossary
Dwight Macdonald (March 24, 1906 – December 19, 1982) was an American writer, critic, philosopher, and activist.[1]
Table of Contents
121 relations: Albert Camus, Anarchism, Anarchist symbolism, Barnard School for Boys, Basic Books, Bolsheviks, Bolshevism, Bombing of Dresden, Brooklyn, Bruno Bettelheim, C. Wright Mills, Cold War, Columbia University, Congress for Cultural Freedom, Cultural critic, Cultural studies, Da Capo Press, Democratic socialism, Denise Levertov, Depression (mood), Edward Mendelson, Esquire (magazine), F. W. Dupee, Fascism, Fatigue, Fortune (magazine), Frankfurt School, Franklin Foer, George Orwell, German Army (1935–1945), Gore Vidal, Great Books of the Western World, Great Depression, Greenwood Publishing Group, Heinrich Blücher, Henry Braun, Henry Luce, High culture, Highbrow, Intellectual, Internet Archive, Irving Howe, James Agee, John F. Kennedy, John Simon (critic), John T. Elson, Joseph Stalin, Journal of Contemporary History, Kronstadt rebellion, Leon Trotsky, ... Expand index (71 more) »
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Albert Camus
Albert Camus (7 November 1913 – 4 January 1960) was a French philosopher, author, dramatist, journalist, world federalist, and political activist. Dwight Macdonald and Albert Camus are anti-Stalinist left and Libertarian socialists.
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Anarchism
Anarchism is a political philosophy and movement that is against all forms of authority and seeks to abolish the institutions it claims maintain unnecessary coercion and hierarchy, typically including the state and capitalism.
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Anarchist symbolism
Anarchists have employed certain symbols for their cause since the 19th century, including most prominently the circle-A and the black flag.
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Barnard School for Boys
The Barnard School for Boys was a college prep-school founded in 1886 by William Livingston Hazen.
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Basic Books
Basic Books is a book publisher founded in 1950 and located in New York City, now an imprint of Hachette Book Group.
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Bolsheviks
The Bolsheviks (italic,; from большинство,, 'majority'), led by Vladimir Lenin, were a far-left faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) which split with the Mensheviks at the Second Party Congress in 1903.
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Bolshevism
Bolshevism (derived from Bolshevik) is a revolutionary socialist current of Soviet Leninist and later Marxist–Leninist political thought and political regime associated with the formation of a rigidly centralized, cohesive and disciplined party of social revolution, focused on overthrowing the existing capitalist state system, seizing power and establishing the "dictatorship of the proletariat".
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Bombing of Dresden
The bombing of Dresden was a joint British and American aerial bombing attack on the city of Dresden, the capital of the German state of Saxony, during World War II.
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Brooklyn
Brooklyn is a borough of New York City.
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Bruno Bettelheim
Bruno Bettelheim (August 28, 1903 – March 13, 1990) was an Austrian-born psychologist, scholar, public intellectual and writer who spent most of his academic and clinical career in the United States.
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C. Wright Mills
Charles Wright Mills (August 28, 1916 – March 20, 1962) was an American sociologist, and a professor of sociology at Columbia University from 1946 until his death in 1962.
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Cold War
The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, that started in 1947, two years after the end of World War II, and lasted until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.
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Columbia University
Columbia University, officially Columbia University in the City of New York, is a private Ivy League research university in New York City.
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Congress for Cultural Freedom
The Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF) was an anti-communist cultural organization founded on June 26, 1950 in West Berlin.
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Cultural critic
A cultural critic is a critic of a given culture, usually as a whole.
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Cultural studies
Cultural studies is a politically engaged postdisciplinary academic field that explores the dynamics of especially contemporary culture (including the politics of popular culture) and its social and historical foundations.
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Da Capo Press
Da Capo Press is an American publishing company with headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Democratic socialism is a centre-left to left-wing set of political philosophies that supports political democracy and some form of a socially owned economy, with a particular emphasis on economic democracy, workplace democracy, and workers' self-management within a market socialist, decentralised planned, or democratic centrally planned socialist economy. Dwight Macdonald and democratic socialism are anti-Stalinist left.
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Denise Levertov
Priscilla Denise Levertov (24 October 1923 – 20 December 1997) was a British-born naturalised American poet. Dwight Macdonald and Denise Levertov are American tax resisters.
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Depression (mood)
Depression is a mental state of low mood and aversion to activity.
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Edward Mendelson
Edward Mendelson (born March 15, 1946) is a professor of English and Comparative Literature and the Lionel Trilling Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University.
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Esquire (magazine)
Esquire is an American men's magazine.
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F. W. Dupee
Frederick Wilcox Dupee (AKA Fred Dupee and F. W. Dupee) (June 25, 1904 – January 19, 1979) was a distinguished American literary critic, essayist for Partisan Review and The New York Review of Books, and professor of English at Columbia University.
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Fascism
Fascism is a far-right, authoritarian, ultranationalist political ideology and movement, characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived good of the nation or race, and strong regimentation of society and the economy.
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Fatigue
Fatigue describes a state of tiredness (which is not sleepiness), exhaustion or loss of energy.
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Fortune (magazine)
Fortune (stylized in all caps) is an American global business magazine headquartered in New York City.
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Frankfurt School
The Frankfurt School is a school of thought in sociology and critical philosophy.
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Franklin Foer
Franklin Foer (born July 20, 1974) is a staff writer at The Atlantic and former editor of The New Republic, commenting on contemporary issues from a liberal perspective.
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George Orwell
Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950) was a British novelist, poet, essayist, journalist, and critic who wrote under the pen name of George Orwell, a name inspired by his favourite place River Orwell. Dwight Macdonald and George Orwell are anti-Stalinist left.
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German Army (1935–1945)
The German Army (Heer) was the land forces component of the Wehrmacht, the regular armed forces of Nazi Germany, from 1935 until it effectively ceased to exist in 1945 and then was formally dissolved in August 1946.
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Gore Vidal
Eugene Luther Gore Vidal (born Eugene Louis Vidal, October 3, 1925 – July 31, 2012) was an American writer and public intellectual known for his acerbic epigrammatic wit. Dwight Macdonald and Gore Vidal are 20th-century American essayists, American male essayists, American tax resisters, members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and Phillips Exeter Academy alumni.
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Great Books of the Western World
Great Books of the Western World is a series of books originally published in the United States in 1952, by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., to present the great books in 54 volumes.
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Great Depression
The Great Depression (19291939) was a severe global economic downturn that affected many countries across the world.
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Greenwood Publishing Group
Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. (GPG), also known as ABC-Clio/Greenwood (stylized ABC-CLIO/Greenwood), is an educational and academic publisher (middle school through university level) which is today part of ABC-Clio.
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Heinrich Blücher
Heinrich Friedrich Ernst Blücher (29 January 1899 – 31 October 1970) was a German poet and philosopher.
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Henry Braun
Henry Braun (July 25, 1930 – Oct. 11, 2014) was an American poet, teacher, and peace activist.
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Henry Luce
Henry Robinson Luce (April 3, 1898 – February 28, 1967) was an American magazine magnate who founded Time, Life, Fortune, and Sports Illustrated magazines.
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High culture
In a society, high culture encompasses cultural objects of aesthetic value, which a society collectively esteems as being exemplary works of art, and the intellectual works of literature and music, history and philosophy, which a society considers representative of their culture.
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Highbrow
Used colloquially as a noun or adjective, "highbrow" is synonymous with intellectual; as an adjective, it also means elite, and generally carries a connotation of high culture.
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Intellectual
An intellectual is a person who engages in critical thinking, research, and reflection about the reality of society, and who proposes solutions for its normative problems.
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Internet Archive
The Internet Archive is an American nonprofit digital library founded in 1996 by Brewster Kahle.
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Irving Howe
Irving Howe (June 11, 1920 – May 5, 1993) was an American literary and social critic and a prominent figure of the Democratic Socialists of America. Dwight Macdonald and Irving Howe are members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
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James Agee
James Rufus Agee (November 27, 1909 – May 16, 1955) was an American novelist, journalist, poet, screenwriter and film critic. Dwight Macdonald and James Agee are Phillips Exeter Academy alumni.
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John F. Kennedy
John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), often referred to as JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from 1961 until his assassination in 1963.
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John Simon (critic)
John Ivan Simon (né Simmon; May 12, 1925 − November 24, 2019) was an American writer and literary, theater, and film critic.
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John T. Elson
John Truscott Elson (April 29, 1931 – September 7, 2009) was a religion editor and writer who eventually became the assistant managing editor of Time.
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Joseph Stalin
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili; – 5 March 1953) was a Soviet politician and revolutionary who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953.
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Journal of Contemporary History
The Journal of Contemporary History is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering the study of history in all parts of the world since 1930.
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Kronstadt rebellion
The Kronstadt rebellion (Kronshtadtskoye vosstaniye) was a 1921 insurrection of Soviet sailors, naval infantry, and civilians against the Bolshevik government in the Russian port city of Kronstadt.
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Leon Trotsky
Lev Davidovich Bronstein (– 21 August 1940), better known as Leon Trotsky, was a Russian revolutionary, Soviet politician, and political theorist. Dwight Macdonald and Leon Trotsky are anti-Stalinist left.
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Libertarian socialism is an anti-authoritarian and anti-capitalist political current that emphasises self-governance and workers' self-management. Dwight Macdonald and Libertarian socialism are anti-Stalinist left.
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Lionel Trilling
Lionel Mordecai Trilling (July 4, 1905 – November 5, 1975) was an American literary critic, short story writer, essayist, and teacher. Dwight Macdonald and Lionel Trilling are members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
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List of historical acts of tax resistance
Tax resistance, the practice of refusing to pay taxes that are considered unjust, has probably existed ever since rulers began imposing taxes on their subjects.
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Louis Menand
Louis Menand (born January 21, 1952) is an American critic, essayist, and professor who wrote the Pulitzer-winning book The Metaphysical Club (2001), an intellectual and cultural history of late 19th- and early 20th-century America.
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Macy's
Macy's (originally R. H. Macy & Co.) is an American department store chain founded in 1858 by Rowland Hussey Macy.
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Mary Therese McCarthy (June 21, 1912 – October 25, 1989) was an American novelist, critic and political activist, best known for her novel ''The Group'', her marriage to critic Edmund Wilson, and her storied feud with playwright Lillian Hellman. Dwight Macdonald and mary McCarthy (author) are members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
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Mass media include the diverse arrays of media that reach a large audience via mass communication.
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Matthew Arnold
Matthew Arnold (24 December 1822 – 15 April 1888) was an English poet and cultural critic.
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Maurice Isserman
Maurice Isserman (born 1951), formerly William R. Kenan and the James L. Ferguson chairs, is a Professor of History at Hamilton College.
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McCarthyism
McCarthyism, also known as the Second Red Scare, was the political repression and persecution of left-wing individuals and a campaign spreading fear of communist and Soviet influence on American institutions and of Soviet espionage in the United States during the late 1940s through the 1950s.
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In cultural studies, media culture refers to the current Western capitalist society that emerged and developed from the 20th century, under the influence of mass media.
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Michael Harrington
Edward Michael Harrington Jr. (February 24, 1928 – July 31, 1989) was an American democratic socialist.
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Middlebrow
The term middlebrow describes middlebrow art, which is easily accessible art, usually popular literature, and middlebrow people who use the arts to acquire the social capital of "culture and class" and thus a good reputation.
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Mitchell Goodman
Mitchell Goodman (December 13, 1923 – February 1, 1997) was an American writer, teacher, and activist.
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Neither Victims nor Executioners
Neither Victims nor Executioners (Ni Victimes, ni bourreaux) was a series of essays by Albert Camus that were serialized in Combat,Ronald Aronson,Camus and Sartre.
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New York City
New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.
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New York Intellectuals
The New York Intellectuals were a group of American writers and literary critics based in New York City in the mid-20th century. Dwight Macdonald and New York Intellectuals are anti-Stalinist left.
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Nicholas Macdonald
Nicholas Gardiner Macdonald (born October 22, 1944) is an American author and filmmaker (as Nick Macdonald) who made several independent films during the 1970s, including Break Out! (1971) and The Liberal War (1974).
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Noam Chomsky
Avram Noam Chomsky (born December 7, 1928) is an American professor and public intellectual known for his work in linguistics, political activism, and social criticism. Dwight Macdonald and Noam Chomsky are 20th-century American essayists, American anarchists, American male essayists, American tax resisters and Libertarian socialists.
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Norman Mailer
Nachem Malech Mailer (January 31, 1923 – November 10, 2007), known by his pen name Norman Kingsley Mailer, was an American novelist, journalist, playwright, and filmmaker. Dwight Macdonald and Norman Mailer are 20th-century American essayists, American male essayists, American tax resisters and members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
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Our Town
Our Town is a three-act play written by American playwright Thornton Wilder in 1938.
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Pacifism
Pacifism is the opposition or resistance to war, militarism (including conscription and mandatory military service) or violence.
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Partisan Review
Partisan Review (PR) was a left-wing small-circulation quarterly "little magazine" dealing with literature, politics, and cultural commentary published in New York City.
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Paul Goodman
Paul Goodman (September 9, 1911 – August 2, 1972) was an American writer and public intellectual best known for his 1960s works of social criticism. Dwight Macdonald and Paul Goodman are American anarchists, American pacifists and anarchist writers.
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Peter Brock (historian)
Peter Brock (1920–2006) was an English-born Canadian historian who specialized in the history of pacifism and Eastern Europe.
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Phillips Exeter Academy
Phillips Exeter Academy (often called Exeter or PEA) is a coeducational university preparatory private school for boarding and day students in grades 9 through 12, including postgraduate students.
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Politics (1940s magazine)
Politics, stylized as politics, was a journal founded and edited by Dwight Macdonald from 1944 to 1949.
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Poverty in the United States
In the United States, poverty has both social and political implications.
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Presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon B. Johnson's tenure as the 36th president of the United States began on November 22, 1963, upon the assassination of president John F. Kennedy, and ended on January 20, 1969.
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Protestantism
Protestantism is a branch of Christianity that emphasizes justification of sinners through faith alone, the teaching that salvation comes by unmerited divine grace, the priesthood of all believers, and the Bible as the sole infallible source of authority for Christian faith and practice.
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Psi Upsilon
Psi Upsilon (ΨΥ), commonly known as Psi U, is a North American fraternity,Psi Upsilon Tablet founded at Union College on November 24, 1833.
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Public policy
Public policy is an institutionalized proposal or a decided set of elements like laws, regulations, guidelines, and actions to solve or address relevant and real-world problems, guided by a conception and often implemented by programs.
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Radical politics
Radical politics denotes the intent to transform or replace the principles of a society or political system, often through social change, structural change, revolution or radical reform.
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Red Army
The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Republic and, from 1922, the Soviet Union.
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Red flag (politics)
In politics, a red flag is predominantly a symbol of left-wing ideologies, including socialism, communism, anarchism, and the labour movement.
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RESIST (non-profit)
RESIST is a philanthropic non-profit organization based out of Boston, Massachusetts.
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Revised Standard Version
The Revised Standard Version (RSV) is an English translation of the Bible published in 1952 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA.
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Robert Barsky
Robert Franklin Barsky is Canada Research Chair in Law, Narrative, and Border Crossing.
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Selden Rodman
Cary Selden Rodman (February 19, 1909 – November 2, 2002) was a prolific American writer of poetry, plays and prose, political commentary, art criticism, Latin American and Caribbean history, biography and travel writing—publishing a book almost every year of his adult life, he also co-edited Common Sense magazine.
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Sit-in
A sit-in or sit-down is a form of direct action that involves one or more people occupying an area for a protest, often to promote political, social, or economic change.
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The Socialist Workers Party (SWP) is a communist party in the United States.
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Strategic bombing during World War II
World War II (1939–1945) involved sustained strategic bombing of railways, harbours, cities, workers' and civilian housing, and industrial districts in enemy territory. Strategic bombing as a military strategy is distinct both from close air support of ground forces and from tactical air power.
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Students for a Democratic Society
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) was a national student activist organization in the United States during the 1960s and was one of the principal representations of the New Left.
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The American Conservative
The American Conservative (TAC) is a magazine published by the American Ideas Institute which was founded in 2002.
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The American Prospect
The American Prospect is a daily online and bimonthly print American political and public policy magazine dedicated to American modern liberalism and progressivism.
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The arts
The arts or creative arts are a vast range of human practices of creative expression, storytelling, and cultural participation.
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The New York Review of Books
The New York Review of Books (or NYREV or NYRB) is a semi-monthly magazine with articles on literature, culture, economics, science and current affairs.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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The New Yorker
The New Yorker is an American magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry.
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The Other America
The Other America: Poverty in the United States is Michael Harrington's best known and likely most influential book.
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The Sidney Hillman Foundation
The Sidney Hillman Foundation is an American charitable foundation that awards prizes to journalists who investigate issues related to social justice and progressive public policy.
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The Yale Record
The Yale Record is the campus humor magazine of Yale University.
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The Years of Lyndon Johnson
The Years of Lyndon Johnson is a biography of Lyndon B. Johnson by the American writer Robert Caro.
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Thornton Wilder
Thornton Niven Wilder (April 17, 1897 – December 7, 1975) was an American playwright and novelist.
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Time (magazine)
Time (stylized in all caps as TIME) is an American news magazine based in New York City.
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Today (American TV program)
Today (also called The Today Show) is an American morning television show that airs weekdays from 7:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. on NBC.
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Totalitarianism
Totalitarianism is a political system and a form of government that prohibits opposition political parties, disregards and outlaws the political claims of individual and group opposition to the state, and controls the public sphere and the private sphere of society.
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Trotskyism
Trotskyism is the political ideology and branch of Marxism developed by Russian revolutionary and intellectual Leon Trotsky along with some other members of the Left Opposition and the Fourth International. Dwight Macdonald and Trotskyism are anti-Stalinist left.
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U.S. Steel
United States Steel Corporation, more commonly known as U.S. Steel, is an American integrated steel producer headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with production operations primarily in the United States of America and in Central Europe.
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Upper West Side
The Upper West Side (UWS) is a neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan in New York City.
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Vanguard Press
The Vanguard Press was a United States publishing house established with a $100,000 grant from the left-wing American Fund for Public Service, better known as the Garland Fund.
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Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975.
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War on poverty
The war on poverty is the unofficial name for legislation first introduced by United States President Lyndon B. Johnson during his State of the Union Address on January 8, 1964.
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Warsaw Uprising
The Warsaw Uprising (powstanie warszawskie; Warschauer Aufstand), sometimes referred to as the August Uprising (powstanie sierpniowe), was a major World War II operation by the Polish underground resistance to liberate Warsaw from German occupation.
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Webster's Third New International Dictionary
Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (commonly known as Webster's Third, or W3) is an American English-language dictionary published in September 1961.
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Western Bloc
The Western Bloc, also known as the Capitalist Bloc, is an informal, collective term for countries that were officially allied with the United States during the Cold War of 1947–1991.
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William F. Buckley Jr.
William Frank Buckley Jr. (born William Francis Buckley; November 24, 1925 – February 27, 2008) was an American conservative writer, public intellectual, and political commentator.
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William Sloane Coffin
William Sloane Coffin Jr. (June 1, 1924 – April 12, 2006) was an American Christian clergyman and long-time peace activist.
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Workers Party (United States)
The Workers Party (WP) was a Third Camp Trotskyist group in the United States.
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World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
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Yale University
Yale University is a private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut.
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See also
The Yale Record alumni
- Alfred Whitney Griswold
- Brandon Tartikoff
- C. D. B. Bryan
- Cherry Chevapravatdumrong
- Clovis Heimsath
- Cole Porter
- Dwight Macdonald
- Elliot E. Cohen
- Eric Metaxas
- Garry Trudeau
- George S. Chappell
- Grant Mitchell (actor)
- Jack Otterson
- John C. Farrar
- John Hill Morgan
- John Templeton
- Lucius Beebe
- Michael Gerber (parodist)
- Peter Arno
- Peter Bergman (comedian)
- Philip Proctor
- Reginald Marsh (artist)
- Rex Ingram (director)
- Richard Melancthon Hurd
- Robert Grossman (artist)
- Robert Osborn (satirist)
- Stephen Vincent Benét
- Vincent Price
- William Benton (politician)
- William Rose Benét
War Resisters League activists
- A. J. Muste
- Albert Bigelow
- Ammon Hennacy
- Anna Strunsky
- Barbara Deming
- Bayard Rustin
- Bradford Lyttle
- Carmen Trotta
- David Dellinger
- David McReynolds
- Devere Allen
- Dwight Macdonald
- Earle L. Reynolds
- G. Simon Harak
- George Houser
- George Willoughby (activist)
- Grace Paley
- Igal Roodenko
- James Otsuka
- James Peck (pacifist)
- Jay Nelson Tuck
- Jessie Wallace Hughan
- John Haynes Holmes
- Lillian Willoughby
- Luis Kemnitzer
- Mandy Carter (activist)
- Maris Cakars
- Nat Hentoff
- Norma Becker
- Ralph DiGia
- Randy Kehler
- Richard Gregg (social philosopher)
- Ruth Mary Reynolds
- Upton Sinclair
- Walter Gormly
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_Macdonald
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