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James Livingston

James Livingston teaches History at Rutgers University–New Brunswick. He is the author of Against Thrift: Why Consumer Culture is Good for the Economy, the Environment, and Your Soul (2011).

2014

Why the Left Needs America: A Response to Eli Zaretsky’s Why America Needs a Left: A Historical Argument

By James Livingston | April 7, 2014

To be effective the Left must learn to retell the story of America’s founding. In that sense, the Left needs America more than America needs a Left.

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