“Something Terrible May Happen: The Works of Aubrey Beardsley and Edward ‘Ned’ I.R. Jennings” is on display at the Gibbes Museum of Art. The something terrible that may happen is plucked from the text of Oscar Wilde’s banned 1893 play “Salome.”
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Perspectives on the DSA Convention
Editorial note:
We will be publishing further commentary and other perspectives on the Democratic Socialists of America on our website, both before and after the organization’s online national convention at the beginning of August.
The 2021 Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) Convention, scheduled to take place online from August 1 to 8, will be the third convention since the organization’s rebirth and massive growth in 2016. (Revealingly, between 2013 and 2017 the median age of DSA membership dropped from 68 to 33.)
1 After a year that has seen the COVID-19 pandemic, a presidential election, and a national uprising against racism, what’s at stake at this convention? I’ll give a little history and context, and then lay out my perspective on several important dynamics.