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Altercation: Race, Vietnam, and the New Left in Mid-Century


Altercation: Race, Vietnam, and the New Left in Mid-Century
George Scialabba discusses the limits of Louis Menand’s new tome on America in the Cold War era.
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Mario Savio, leader of the Berkeley Free Speech Movement, is restrained by police as he walks onto the platform at the University of California’s Greek Theatre in Berkeley, December 7, 1964.
I’m about three-quarters of the way through Louis Menand’s 880-page
The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War, and I lack the vocabulary to say how impressive I find its scholarly range and ambition as well as the fairness and sympathy the author shows for his subjects. (My partner says she is really sick of me reading my Kindle at night and then stopping to tell her all about what I just read.) There are a few parts of the book I feel qualified to judge, even a few that I’ve written about in my own books. In each of these, however, I’ve still learned somethi ....

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The challenge for progressive Jews at a time of rising antisemitism.


Perhaps you saw the letter. The one in which 175 Jewish studies and Israel studies scholars wrote, “we condemn the state violence that the Israeli government and its security forces have been carrying out in Gaza.” In the same letter, they wrote, “We also denounce expressions of antisemitism or Islamophobia in connection with ongoing events in Israel/Palestine.”
Or perhaps you read the Instagram post by the account “Progressive Jews,” backing Palestinian rights and safety, freedom and liberation, but also urging followers to speak out against antisemitism.
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Or perhaps you read about the millennial Jewish staffers on Capitol Hill who are working criticism of Israeli government policy into their day jobs, pushing back against conflation of criticism of the Israeli government with antisemitism. ....

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