Todd Gitlin
Todd Gitlin is a professor of journalism and sociology and chair of the Ph.D. program in communications at Columbia University. He is the author of 16 books, including several on journalism and politics. His next book is a novel, The Opposition. Follow him on Twitter: @toddgitlin.
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August 28, 2017Among the abominations of Charlottesville were far-right groups openly carrying assault rifles.
August 14, 2017The fire that burns the length and breadth of American history has burst through a firebreak.
August 1, 2017How Trump, Murdoch, Breitbart & Co. drive reason toward the end of its tether.
July 17, 2017The big story is that Trump and his entourage have been at ease with Russian mobsters and gray-zone inhabitants for decades.
July 14, 2017If you were in the ghettoes of Newark, Detroit or scores of other cities that summer, you were not wearing flowers in your hair. Forget about utopia: You were staking out, in action, fury and bitterness.
July 10, 2017Trump is pursuing what he thinks is a win-win strategy. But there’s more than a whiff of panic in his recent maneuvers.
July 1, 2017And tantrums from the faker-in-chief don’t make them so.
June 9, 2017Donald Trump and Alan Dershowitz share a penchant for praising their own indispensability.
