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Jim Sleeper

Jim Sleeper is the author of The Closest of Strangers: Liberalism and the Politics of Race in New York and Liberal Racism.

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September 20, 2024
Jim Sleeper
Jonathan Holloway Was Far More Than Rutgers’s First Black President
Fighting toxic crosscurrents from all directions, Holloway concluded that he didn’t sign up for needing a constant police detail.
September 4, 2023
Jim Sleeper
This Forgotten American Orwell Had a Lot to Tell Us
Malcolm Ross is unknown today. That’s too bad. This son of privilege has much to teach us about labor and civic leadership.
June 16, 2022
Jim Sleeper
I Once Backed Rudy Giuliani. And I Know What’s Happened to Him.
He always danced on the razor’s edge between authority and freedom—until he stopped dancing and embraced the dark side.
August 13, 2020
Jim Sleeper
The Inevitability of Defending Henry Kissinger
Barry Gewen’s biography is an exercise in downplaying the critics and justifying the abuse of power.
December 12, 2019
Jim Sleeper
The Tragedy of the Yale Commons
How private equity baron Stephen Schwarzman has steamrolled our civic culture
October 31, 2013
Jim Sleeper
The End of the Rainbow
From 1993: America's Changing Urban Politics
March 2, 1998
Jim Sleeper
Color Bind
Al Gore, racial moralist
December 2, 1996
Jim Sleeper
The Rainbow Coalition
November 5 and the good news about race
September 19, 1996
Jim Sleeper
Working Girl
The keynoter's Staten Island roots
March 22, 1996
Jim Sleeper
Brother Act
Review of Al Sharpton's autobiography
October 23, 1995
Jim Sleeper
The Simpsons
O.J.'s acquittal and the experience of race
September 21, 1995
Jim Sleeper
NYN RIP
After you've gone
March 20, 1995
Jim Sleeper
The Other Bill
Bradley's quiet, compelling message
December 5, 1994
Jim Sleeper
Empire Burlesque
Giuliani and what might have been
September 19, 1994
Jim Sleeper
The Clash
Sharpton vs. Moynihan
May 9, 1994
Jim Sleeper
Apple Juice
How can Giuliani show he's color-blind on corruption?
January 10, 1994
Jim Sleeper
Psycho-Killer?
The origins of Colin Ferguson's hate
November 1, 1993
Jim Sleeper
The End of the Rainbow
America's Changing Urban Politics
June 28, 1993
Jim Sleeper
Anti-Anti Racist
A case study in racial politics
February 18, 1991
Jim Sleeper
In the Mix
Campus report: CCNY

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