Maurice Isserman teaches history at Hamilton College. He is the author of The Other American: The Life of Michael Harrington, and the preface to the 50th anniversary edition of Harrington’s The Other America, just reissued by Simon and Schuster.
Maurice Isserman, thunders at The Nation that he’s quit “to protest the DSA leadership’s politically and morally bankrupt response to the horrific Hamas October 7 anti-Jewish pogrom.”
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On the ambiguities of progress. My friend and one of my first professional colleagues, Maurice Isserman, the leading historian of the 20th century American left, played a game with his kids before they left for college: What’s getting better? What’s getting worse? I can’t think of a better way to reflect on the ambiguities of progress.