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...show the political muscle--or even the instincts--to turn their ideas into workable policies. These weaknesses have dogged "neoliberalism" since pundits first began using the word in the aftermath of the Carter presidency, and they have yet to be adequately addressed since--problems suggested, perhaps unwittingly, in Randall Rothenberg's The Neoliberals: Creating the New American Politics...
...Rothenberg's purpose in this book is to describe the personalities and ideas that have been grouped under the term of neoliberalism--certainly no easy task. Tsongas, the Massachusetts senator who was in early on the idea, has called it "compassionate liberalism," Rothenberg tells us, and Sen. Gary W. Hart (D-Colo.), who has wrung it for all its worth, has dubbed it "Prairie Populist Jeffersonian democracy." A better term is "anything but"--that is, anything but the formulas of the New Deal, from which neoliberals recoil in horror. Despite his deadly earnest attempt, Rothenberg doesn't really help...
...Rothenberg lived in South House sophomore year, but when he came back from Nepal at mid-year, he found he had the lowest priority to receive housing. So he moved into the Jordan Co-ops and subsequently loved the experience that the co-op offered--"halfway on campus and half off, not so far away to feel disconnected--and the food is much better...
...Rothenberg is notorious for his unconventional style. As a freshman, he got into serious trouble for moving a piano in the Union for a performance. And last summer, while working for Let's Go in Scandinavia, he was arrested in Denmark for tampering with his Eurail Pass in order to use it for an extra month. He spent a day in jail and was threated with deportation, but somehow worked his way out of it. While researching in Finland, he received media fame for participating in a music workshop given by John Cage, one of the foremost innovative contemporary composers...
...Rothenberg is not sure about the future, but since he has already done what his yearbook predicted, "I need to make up some new thing to do in 10 years--something that hasn't been done before." At times he feels he would like to get a more traditional music education, and yet he doesn't want to "do music in the academic way." Rothenberg is also in the Outing Club, and has long been involved in the environmental and ecological movements...