Todd Gitlin

Todd Gitlin is a professor of journalism and sociology at Columbia University. In 1963 and 1964, he was president of Students for a Democratic Society. He is the author of numerous books, including The Whole World is Watching: Mass Media in the Making and Unmaking of the Left (1980), The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage (1987), The Intellectuals and the Flag (2006), Occupy Nation: The Roots, the Spirit, and the Promise of Occupy Wall Street (2012), and is at work on a forthcoming book, about Trump and the media, called The Apprentice’s Sorcerer. (April 2019)

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The Roots of Trumpian Agitprop

The “Trump 2020” video celebrates mighty forces overpowering fate; crowds hailing the almighty leader; surrender and mindless momentum; a Super Bowl style of awesomeness, though brisker and less orgiastic than Riefenstahl’s rapturous celebration of what she saw as the Nazis’ epochal grandeur.

April 16, 2019

The Left’s Missing Music

If there are to be global goals, goals that cross boundaries to inspire the multitudes, where might they be found? Nearly three decades after the collapse of the communist phantasm, the left has still not recovered its voice, let alone composed a melody you can’t get out of your head.

May 28, 2018

1968: Year of Counter-Revolution

What is hard to convey today about 1968 is the texture of shock and panic that seized the world a half-century ago. What is even harder to grasp is that the chief political victor of that year was the counter-revolution.

May 8, 2018

On the Boycott of Israeli Settlements

November 10, 2016 issue

For an Economic Boycott and Political Nonrecognition of the Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Territories

October 13, 2016 issue

Letter

Angela Y. Davis, et al.

On the Boycott of Israeli Settlements

November 10, 2016 issue

Repression in Cuba

December 4, 2003 issue

The Election Mess