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Despite the combined appeal of former Vermont Gov. Howard B. Dean and former U.S. Labor Secretary Robert B. Reich, controversial filmmaker Michael Moore—the director of the box-office hit Fahrenheit 9/11, which casts a sharply critical eye on President Bush and his policies—upstaged them as the main attraction at Tuesday’s “Take America Back” events, sponsored by the Campaign for America’s Future...
Former U.S. Labor Secretary Robert B. Reich told a crowd of hundreds of liberals at the Campaign for America’s Future “Take Back America” events Tuesday that he would teach them an entire economics course in 10 minutes to debunk myths about a recovery propagated by the Bush administration...
Reich—who spoke immediately after former Vermont Gov. Howard B. Dean at the Royal Sonesta Hotel in Cambridge—said adults experiencing difficulty finding jobs with benefits mistakenly believe that the problem lies only with themselves. Rather, Reich said, the economy has lost one million jobs over the course of Bush’s presidency—a problem compounded by the need to create 125,000 jobs a month just to keep up with current population growth rates, he said...
...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...