Thirty More Years

By Joel Bleifuss

Back in 1976, when James Weinstein decided to move to Chicago to start In These Times, his inspiration was Appeal to Reason, a socialist weekly published out of Girard, Kansas, between 1895 and 1922. At its peak in 1912, the paper had 761,000 subscribers--including 38,000 in Oklahoma. When the Post Office [RETURN TO ARTICLE]