In These Times

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• • 12 Nov 06
  • 1:00 pm

  I don't get this article. Doesn't Nancy Pelosi's membership in the Progressive Caucus beg the question of what on earth the difference is between a conservative and a progressive Democrat? This article feels like a lot of hype, without definitions of terms, without analysis of similiarties or divisions between members of the caucus in question, without a sense of platform. I can see how yes, the landslide Dem victory shouldn't JUST be seen as a victory for conservatives/ centrists in the party, since every constituency plays an important part in holding the 51-49 majority in the Senate. But this article provides …

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• • 21 Jul 05
  • 5:29 pm

  I'm surprised that no one mentions the connection between lynching and the death penalty. Check out the book Rough Justice by Michael Pfeifer. It basically traces how Progressive era reformers, alarmed at vigilante justice in general and lynching in particular in the early part of this century, used the death penalty as a means of modernizing and bureaucratizing these revenge killings. It was a historic compromise that, in the name of ending mob rule, took mob prejudices (particularly racism) and gave them a much more ruthlessly scientific legitimization. So these apologies over lynching really are crocodile tears. It's no accident that …

  Posted to So Very Sorry