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Appealing to Reason

By Craig Aaron

When James Weinstein moved to Chicago in 1976, he set out to create a fiercely independent journal that would inform, educate and critically analyze an emerging popular movement on the American left. A historian by trade, Weinstein modeled his newspaper on the Appeal to Reason, a socialist weekly that boasted more than 750,000 subscribers at its peak around 1912 and featured… return to article

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