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Todd Gitlin

Todd Gitlin

Todd Gitlin is the author The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage, is the co-author of The Chosen Peoples: America, Israel, and the Ordeals of Divine Election. His forthcoming nonfiction novel is Undying. He is a journalism professor at Columbia University.

Don't Turn the Deficit into 'The Passion of the Boomers'

Why does Michael Kinsley focus so much on a danger that's rather mild compared to something like global warming?… More »

Damning a Whole Generation to Make a Policy Point

Damning a Whole Generation to Make a Policy Point

It's not fair to blame every Baby Boomer for driving America into a ditch of massive debt and then ask them all to pull the country out by paying more in taxes… More »

The Hope for Audacity

Todd Gitlin assesses the difference between Obama's outlook and that of FDR and LBJ, and considers what it will take for him to succeed in office.… More »

Yes We Did. Overcome.

The author, who was among the activists in Chicago's Grant Park during the 1968 Democratic Convention, reflects on Obama's unifying spirit as part of the lost legacy of the sixties.… More »

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