Word: reich
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...profit from the readings as well. Granted that there are weeks when I assign almost 200 pages, but the richness of the material would keep him going. For example, we are about to read former U.S. Secretary of Labor Robert Reich’s new history of radical conservatives. Reich describes how these “Radcons,” as he calls them, have used backing from conservative billionaires to build up an army of broadcasters and pundits. They have thereby succeeded in mainstreaming ideas once propounded only on the extreme-right fringes of American society...
...also selected Howard D. Zinn as a lecturer, whose People’s History of the United States takes great care to omit any modicum of praise for Western civilization, when one might choose from the wealth of legit Harvard historians. The list really goes on and on: Robert Reich, Swanee Hunt, Peter Singer and many other more marginal leftists find their way onto the syllabus. Last year, even Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys spoke in Palmer’s class—a “relevant practitioner” of human values, perchance...
Palmer’s class, which has hosted such well-known figures as former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich and MIT professor Noam Chomsky, has been featured in The New York Times and The Christian Science Monitor but has also been accused of not providing a balanced view on political issues...
...Reich forecasted G.O.P. research would extend far beyond Capitol Hill...
...Kerry is the nominee, Republicans will try and search back into everything he ever said on every issue,” Reich predicted...