Todd Gitlin

  • Chicago '68, remixed

    In this conversation and podcast, director Brett Morgen explains why his exhilarating, controversial "Chicago 10" is about 2008 and not 1968.
    By Andrew O'Hehir February 28, 2008

  • Deliverance for Democrats?

    Not so fast. It's going to take a lot more than indictments to defeat the GOP.
    By Todd Gitlin November 2, 2005

  • Roger Ebert and Mohammed Atta, partners in crime

    David Horowitz has a new project calculated to give the left apoplexy: A Web site that proclaims insidious links between latte liberals and murderous Islamists.
    By John Gorenfeld April 12, 2005

  • Ghost war

    The Swift Boat Vets say John Kerry's testimony about American atrocities in Vietnam is offensive. But they don't say it's false, because the record backs Kerry's account.
    By Todd Gitlin August 24, 2004

  • The whole world is watching

    If militants violently disrupt the GOP convention, it could be Chicago 1968 redux -- and Christmas in August for the Bush campaign.
    By Michelle Goldberg August 17, 2004

  • From tragedy to farce

    He's running for president as an independent, not as a Green. He has no organization. He's starting late. Does Ralph Nader's narcissism have no bounds?
    By Todd Gitlin February 22, 2004

  • Anyone but Bush

    Veteran activist Todd Gitlin speaks out about MoveOn, ANSWER, the Greens -- and how progressives need to emulate the self-discipline of the right to win in 2004.
    By Laura McClure July 19, 2003

  • When terrorism was cool

    As a new film about the Weather Underground opens, former '60s revolutionary Mark Rudd wonders whatever possessed him -- and America.
    By Andrew O'Hehir June 7, 2003

  • Rage or reason

    Antiwar activists debate: Should they take over the streets or work to defeat Bush in 2004?
    By Michelle Goldberg March 27, 2003

  • Joe Conason got it wrong

    I have never equated doubts about the war with treason. The only "fifth column" in America is that subset of the left that hates this country and loves its enemies.
    By David Horowitz November 25, 2002

  • The last great liberal hero

    To those who knew him, Sen. Paul Wellstone personified the highest ideals of the American left.
    By Michelle Goldberg October 26, 2002

  • Media O.D.

    Todd Gitlin talks about media overload, the cluelessness of the TV networks, the Washington Post's love for Ken Starr and why conservative viewpoints thrive on TV and radio.
    By Suzy Hansen April 15, 2002

  • Pushovers of the press

    The media elite are reviewing Henry Kissinger's latest tome with their usual fawning gullibility. Best not to mention those bony hands reaching out from the grave.
    By Todd Gitlin July 3, 2001

  • Back to the civil rights barricades

    What's at stake in Florida is nothing less than the right to vote and to have it count. And once again an angry, elitist GOP is on the wrong side.
    By Todd Gitlin December 4, 2000

  • Pride before the fall

    Ralph Nader told his supporters to cast a vote they could be proud of. How do you spell H-U-B-R-I-S?
    By Todd Gitlin November 8, 2000

  • Nader: Unsafe in any state

    By Todd Gitlin
    By   November 1, 2000

  • Unsafe in any state

    Ralph Nader's campaign is reckless, its justifications specious and its consequences possibly irreparable. But it does allow fundamentalist leftists to keep living in their dream world.
    By Todd Gitlin October 28, 2000

  • It's the stupidity, stupid

    By Todd Gitlin
    By   October 26, 2000

  • It's the stupidity, stupid

    George W. Bush's constant gaffes and mental lapses reflect the luxurious laziness of a scion who's never had to work hard at anything. And the media elite has graciously awarded him a Gentleman's C.
    By Todd Gitlin October 24, 2000

  • The great straddler

    Free trader President Clinton veers left in Seattle. But will his finesse be enough to keep Al Gore's Democratic Party intact?
    By Todd Gitlin December 3, 1999

  • The year of reliving dangerously

    Our generation was so torn apart in 1968 that some people's memories went permanently screwy -- Stephen Talbot's for example.
    By David Horowitz September 8, 1998

  • Repressed memory syndrome

    The legendary year 1968 stills hold the baby-boom generation in thrall -- but it was actually the pinnacle of anti-democratic narcissism.
    By David Horowitz August 31, 1998

  • The Year of Dreaming Dangerously

    This is the 30th anniversary of a series of tumultuous events that shaped a generation. To understand the activists of the '60s, you have to revisit 1968 and consider what it was like to those who lived through it.
    By Stephen Talbot July 22, 1998

  • Boomerang

    Why baby boomers hate Bill Clinton -- and themselves
    By Todd Gitlin May 27, 1996
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