Ruth Frick O'Brien

  • Fresh, “Fresh Air”

    Is Terry Gross a man? No. Does she behave like a man? In literature about Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 this means that while Terry is not a man, she has behaved like one or perhaps treats other women like she herself is a man, a male interviewer.* Now, don’t get…

  • Weasel Zippers Snip the Menu and if it says “oops” this means

    Take it from the Weasel-Zippers, as a woman “writing politics” I’m effective enough to try to silence. They want to silence me. I may seek shelter in scholarship sometimes, but I will not be silenced. I appreciate the mirroring with CUNY Academic Commons that stems from my private site to my professional site. CUNY practices…

  • Polls and Faculty Rolls, and Why Political Science Gets it Wrong (the discipline that is)

    https://ruthobrien.org/2022/11/07/polls-and-faculty-rolls/

  • Check Out the 4 New Heretical Thought OUP, USA books: Anne Norton, Jennifer Nedelsky and Tom Mallesome, Ann Laura Stoler, and Peter D. Thomas

  • CUNY Graduate Center Historian (Recently Retired) Distinguished Professor David Nasaw wrote

    Kudos, David Nasaw! What a wonderful and insightful analysis, albeit a scary one. Living on the late-nineteenth-century female muckraker journalist Ida Tarbell’s island– Roosevelt Island — which is under the 59th Street Bridge (as those in Manhattan call it, as opposed to the Queensboro Bridge, as those from Queens call it, though it was relatively…

  • In a word, Gail, it’s Gramsci

    One of my cousins asked me a fun question. We were talking about Frick and Stout family artifacts from Iowa, Jacksonville Illinois, Des Moines, Grundy, and Polk Counties, all in Iowa, as well as Hopewell and Amwell, New Jersey, where Colonel Thomas Johnson Stout’s son left to head West. My baby sister Kathleen even has…

  • Frick-ed and Fracked or S.L.A.P.P.ed*?

    Not until I met and married Fred (who honored my father and mother when my sons walked me down the aisle), I had none other than my colleague, Fred’s long-lost relative, unite us in marriage. I would’ve been the second Ruth Ann Schwarz. Instead, Fred is the first Frederic Halper O’Brien, though we began our…

  • One Family Unit: Frontiers’-Women from the Far-west Henry Clay Frick Clan

  • Heretic . . .

    Another notion or concept 4 “this” or “that-ing” or what I call the act of discriminating (and that’s not taste) But surely you’ve got 5 senses to understand this . . .

  • /Control?/Resist?!?/Bodies_in_Revolt*

    The content discusses publications related to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), including “Voices from the Edge” and “Crippled Justice”. It also mentions the author’s ability to share select chapters upon request. Additionally, it references a connection between these writings and the organization ‘Public Square’ in Princeton, New Jersey. The content provides links to further…

  • Pride?

    G.O.P. or the Grand Ol’ Party and/or the party of Abe Lincoln and/or the party of the New Republic or Nationalism (followed by TR and FDR)

  • Grand Old Party, Oil and Kern County

    Tejon Ranch is the largest …. Now I get it… This is how Hollywood remains Hollywood and why Oil remains oil and I mean petroleum oil, not black oil. One of my cousins and I played “find the oil.” Now, I knew three things: 1. Oil was black and dirty — petroleum oil, that is,…

  • Hackers (right wingers, ex-husbands and . . . )

    Thanks for separating my menus from my titles. You created a nice index up front and center. FYI, hacking only gets me more traffic, let alone helping learn the art of the SEO. Thanks for the publicity boost.

  • Unbecoming

    One would think sexual harassment(s) is/was/were un-becoming, no?* * (Queen’s English, not the so-called “royal” we + SOP + all my scholarship from best poli-sci presses and/or in journals/magazines/zines/newspapers with over a million reach)

  • Pondering protest politics

    Any one who knows me knows I’m rather persistent when it comes to physicał protests. Anyone who really knows me knows if and why I ‘show’-up, for a … protest politics

  • protest politics

    Any one who knows me knows I’m rather persistent when it comes to physicał protests. Anyone who really knows me knows if and why i ‘show’-up, for a … protest politics