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Todd Gitlin

Todd Gitlin is a professor of journalism, sociology, and communications at Columbia University.

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November 19, 2021
Todd Gitlin
Senator Kennedy’s “Unhinged” Red-Baiting: What Is the Matter With These People?
Just when you think the Republican Party has scraped the bottom of the barrel, it breaks through into the slime pit below.
October 27, 2021
Todd Gitlin, Jeffrey C. Isaac, William Kristol
An Open Letter in Defense of Democracy
The future of democracy in the United States is in danger.
August 14, 2013
Todd Gitlin
The Washington Post Doesn't Need a New-Media Mogul—It Needs an Old-Fashioned One
March 7, 2013
Todd Gitlin
Dissident or Informant? The Murky Memory of Christa Wolf
July 23, 2012
Todd Gitlin
Was That the Way It Was?
May 7, 2012
Todd Gitlin
A Mere Jonah
February 15, 2012
Todd Gitlin
Actions
November 14, 2011
Todd Gitlin
In the Name of the Father: How College Sports Came To Be Above the Law
October 19, 2011
Todd Gitlin
The Grand Programme
October 18, 2011
Todd Gitlin
Occupy Wall Street Is Chaotic, Romantic, and Utopian—and That’s a Good Thing
September 17, 2011
Todd Gitlin
A Eulogy for Carl Oglesby, the Man Who Inspired the New Left and Was Then Tossed Overboard
April 11, 2011
Todd Gitlin
Reading Deeply
January 17, 2011
Todd Gitlin
Standardizing
December 9, 2010
Todd Gitlin
A Response to Glenn Greenwald
December 7, 2010
Todd Gitlin
Everything Is Data, but Data Isn’t Everything
November 15, 2010
Todd Gitlin
Many Ways to be a Jewish State
October 19, 2010
Todd Gitlin, Liel Leibovitz
The Trials of Being a Chosen Nation
October 11, 2010
Todd Gitlin, Nissim Calderon
A Counterproductive Call to Boycott Israel's Universities
October 11, 2010
Todd Gitlin
Still the Spymaster
September 21, 2010
Todd Gitlin
This Manichaean Moment

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