A conversation about some of the factors behind the campus protests in the United States, and what they tell us more generally about our conditions of existence.
A movement isn’t called that for nothing. It has to move people. It needs lovers, and friends, and allies. It has to generate a cascade of feeling - moral feeling.
The author of 'All that is solid melts into air' has breathed his last of this planet's oxygen but his spirit lives on. His buddy Todd Gitlin salutes him.
It would be foolish to trust the authorities to keep to honest-to-goodness police work when they so easily take the low road into straight-out, unwarranted espionage and instigation. Tom Engelhardt invites Todd Gitlin to look into what we do know.
Todd Gitlin, whose latest book is Occupy Nation: The Roots, the Spirit, and the Promise of Occupy Wall Street, offers a little survey of American print journalism on the way down, without a hint of romance in sight.
