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Jim Sleeper

Jim Sleeper is a lecturer in political science at Yale. He is the author of The Closest of Strangers: Liberalism and the Politics of Race in New York and Liberal Racism.

Brett Kavanaugh
Posted inFeatured, Politics

Kavanaugh’s Youth Was Bad Enough. His Career Was Even Worse.

by Jim Sleeper September 28, 2018January 9, 2022

Trump’s Supreme Court pick follows a familiar pattern of bad boys who grow up to do bad things.

Connecticut Gubernatorial Candidate Ned Lamont
Posted inFeatured, Politics

The Connecticut Dem Showing How to Be Pro-Business and Pro-Labor

by Jim Sleeper September 18, 2018January 9, 2022
donald trump
Posted inFeatured, Politics

It Can Happen Here

by Jim Sleeper June 22, 2018January 9, 2022
Robert Mueller
Posted inFeatured, Politics

The Hidden Motivations of Robert Mueller

by Jim Sleeper March 9, 2018January 9, 2022
U.S. Troops in Afghanistan
Posted inPolitics

The End of Stanley McChrystal’s War on Poverty

by Jim Sleeper August 29, 2017January 9, 2022
John McCain
Posted inFeatured, Politics

What John McCain Really Showed Us

by Jim Sleeper July 30, 2017January 9, 2022
college protest
Posted inPolitics

The Unbelievable Hypocrisy of Free-Speech Conservatives

by Jim Sleeper July 21, 2017January 22, 2023
Yale University
Posted inPolitics

Why Yale Should Shun Blackstone CEO Steve Schwarzman

by Jim Sleeper February 17, 2017January 9, 2022
Vietnam War protest
Posted inFeatured, Politics

When Resisting Means Risking

by Jim Sleeper January 11, 2017January 9, 2022
Posted inPolitics

Civic Virtues, Not Guns, Nurture the Republic

by Jim Sleeper June 30, 2016January 9, 2022

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