Re: Old Farts (was Lumpen)
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
I just found this gem: Sam Graham-Felsen, “The New Face of the Campus Left,” 13 Feb 06, http://www.thenation.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20060213&s=grahamfelsen.
I recommend it to both Doug and Wojtek: to Wojtek, so he can see what young Democrats stand for (the choice quote: “We’ve tried very hard, without compromising what we stand for, to make sure that we are serious about progressive values, and that we believe in inclusion” (David Halperin, director of Campus Progress, qtd. in Graham-Felsen); and to Doug, so he can hear what prematurely old farts really sound like.
Yikes, that’s awful. And there really should be a law against this sort of thing (or editors allowing this sort of thing):
I asked the former president of Students for a Democratic Society, Todd Gitlin, now a professor at the Columbia School of Journalism, for his thoughts about the trends on the new student left.
Doug