Progressive Book Club

Obama, One Year On

Todd Gitlin | Posted 11.03.2009 | Books


Todd Gitlin

The Obama operation proved its mastery at campaigning, looks pretty good at the inside game, but outsider politics--movement campaigns--haven't kept up.

Al Gore's Our Choice: Progressive Book Club Review

Progressive Book Club | Bill McKibben | Posted 11.03.2009 | Books


Bill McKibben Progressive Book Club Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis By Al Gore Rodale, 2009 There's been a certain amount of debate ...

When Everything Changed, by Gail Collins

Elaine Showalter | Posted 10.29.2009 | Books


Elaine Showalter

Collins uses her great sense of revealing anecdotes, engaging personalities, representative case histories, resonant stories, and startling details to defamiliarize a decade we thought we remembered.

Why Books Are Still Central to Our Political Culture

Howard Dean | Posted 10.06.2009 | Books


Howard Dean

Despite ongoing changes in technology, communications, and culture, books are consistently at the leading edge of new ideas, new social and political movements and new policy directions.

Alan Wolfe on Terrorism and Globalization

Julian Brookes | Posted 03.28.2009 | World


Julian Brookes

An open world is the best remedy against terrorism. Bush talked a lot about the universal idea of human freedom. I think he was right in that language, but his policies encouraged the opposite.

An Interview with Erica Payne, Author of The Practical Progressive

Julian Brookes | Posted 11.23.2008 | Politics


Julian Brookes

Erica Payne's book, The Practical Progressive: How to Build a Twenty-First Century Political Movement, is the essential guide to what's happening, who's who, and how to get involved in the new progressive "infrastructure."

Conservative Book Marketing vs Progressive Book Marketing

J.S. McDougall | Posted 10.06.2008 | Media


J.S. McDougall

When it comes to the mass marketing of ideas, the conservatives have been embarrassing the progressives for years. I attribute this to the simple fact...

Progressives Launch First Major Book Club

New York Times | Posted 06.24.2008 | Media


The progressive movement has prided itself on its ability to get its messages out by harnessing the Internet, through organizations like MoveOn.org an...