Search
McLemee, Scott
Trump and the Alt-Right (A View from Washington)
by Scott McLemee February 9, 2017 |
Donald Trump likes to think that he has not only won an election but “built a movement.” And to judge by his first week in the White House office, he has — just not in the way he thinks.
Tribute to Betty Reid Mandell
by Scott McLemee | Winter 2015 |
The editorial board of New Politics is saddened by the loss of one of our own: Betty Reid Mandell, who, with her husband Marvin Mandell, served as one of the journal’s co-editors for most of the past decade.
Hubert Harrison
Scott McLemee June 23, 2009 |
Late last year, Columbia University Press published Jeffrey B. Perry’s Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918, the first of a promised two-volume study of a great, forgotten figure from the early Socialist Party. Given the unabashed racism so common within the movement, Harrison ended up leaving it to build a black nationalist group that antedated Marcus Garvey's efforts.