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The only way a movement grows is by doing more. And any grown-up left asks not whether to participate in elections, but how
Tom Gallagher
Instead of yelling, “Kill the umpire,” as they supposedly did at nineteenth century baseball games, Dave Zirin’s Bad Sports, in its thoroughly reasonable…
F or the second mayoral election in a row, a late-starting left- wing campaign thrilled San Francisco with a genuine mad-dash grassroots…
I’ve been told that I’m the only sportswriter still perpendicular who was at that fight”—since the fight in question is the 1938…
Harvard University Press, 478 pp Review by Tom Gallagher A specter haunts the globe—the specter of postmodernism?— Slavoj Zizek calls Empire “nothing…
Mayor Willie Brown recently donated one of his famous fedoras for a time capsule that will show future San Franciscans what their…
Karel Bartosek, Jean-Louis Margolin Harvard University Press, 1999 Review by Tom Gallagher Exposes of communism are not new—they date back to the…
Everyone was telling us, ‘You’re golden’,” Los Angeles Manufacturing Action Project (LAMAP) founder Peter Olney recalls. In 1995 the organization did…
Tom Gallagher The ancient Greeks searched for glimpses of their future in the innards of butchered pigs and oxen; modern Americans tend…