July 2023
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LInks to Recent Articles of Interest “American Carnage” By Sean Wilentz, New York Review of Books, August 17 issue A review essay on Jeffrey Toobin's new book Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism (Simon and Schuster, 2023), which links right-wing anti-government violence to Republican politics going back to the Reagan administration. The…
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Note: H-PAD announces an extensively updated version of its Culture Wars Archive, coordinated by Molly Nolan. Organized topically, It consists of around two hundred articles and statements from the past few years' of right-wing attacks on education – and resistance to the attacks. Another Note: A June 26 webinar on “Shifting Power Dynamics: Ukraine, Russia,…
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Dear H-PAD, Please consider signing and circulating this open letter in support of Penn State faculty who are being targeted by the Right — in the form of a lawsuit and public defamation — for their antiracist pedagogy. You can read the letter and access links to relevant background here: https://forms.gle/o4un9e32XDec9Ypc7. As you know, these attacks…
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Dear H-PAD members, We would like to call your attention to this important conference, which will take place on July 28 at George Washington University in Washington, D.C and be live streamed to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the armistice on the Korean Peninsula. The poster for it is attached. As Linda Yarr wrote us: Unlike…