Professor Ruth O'Brien

Academic, Author, Activist, Book Series Editor – Out of Many, One: Obama & the 3rd American Political Tradition – (content reflects freedom of thought)

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    • Curriculum Vitae
  • my books
    • Amazon Book Page
    • University of Chicago Author Page
    • Out of Many, One: Obama & the 3rd American Political Tradition
    • Voices from the Edge: Narratives about the Americans with Disabilities Act
    • Bodies in Revolt Gender, Disability, and a Workplace Ethic of Care
    • Crippled Justice
    • Telling Stories Out of Court: Narratives about Women and Workplace Discrimination
    • Workers’ Paradox: The Republican Origins of New Deal Labor Policy
  • princeton univ. press book series
    • The Public Square Book Descriptions by Cover
    • PUP’s Public Square Page
    • The Public Square Princeton University Press Book Series
    • Joan Wallach Scott’s Sex and Secularism- Public Square book (Princeton U Press)
    • On the Muslim Question by Anne Norton
    • Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities by Martha C. Nussbaum
    • Hidden in Plain Sight: The Tragedy of Children’s Rights from Ben Franklin to Lionel Tate by Barbara Bennett Woodhouse
    • Joan Wallach Scott’s Sex and Secularism- Public Square book (Princeton U Press)
    • The Posthuman Dada Guide: tzara and lenin play chess by Andrei Codrescu
    • The Whites of their Eyes: The Tea Party’s Revolution and the Battle over American History by Jill Lepore
    • Uncouth Nation: Why Europe Dislikes America by Andrei S. Markovits
  • oxford univ. press book series
    • Heretical Thought, Oxford University Press, Advisory Board
    • Assembly
    • Michael Hardt’s & Antonio Negri’s Assembly
    • The Rise of Neoliberal Feminism
      • Catherine Rottenberg’s Heretical Thought Book
    • Massimiliano Tomba’s Insurgent Universality
    • Forthcoming Heretical Thought Author – Diego von Vacano
    • Heretical Thought Pictured
  • blogs
    • SCAMs, SLAMs, and SLIMs
    • SCAMs, SLAMs, and SLIMs
    • “Flick” of the Wrist Pic Reminder to Brighten-or-Darken One’s Day?
    • Trump(ed) Presidency
    • Black Lesbian Feminism as Methodology and a Social Movement Simultaneously
    • Rape Culture, Rape Daddy, Congress COULD Legislate and Amend IF Congress Preferred Zero Tolerance!
      • White House Financial Disclosures — Crony Capitalism
        • Rape Culture, Rape Daddy, Congress COULD Legislate and Amend IF Congress Preferred Zero Tolerance!
        • Real Rape
      • Obamacrats — The Color Purple or How Lame Ducks Can Stampede Elephants
        • Hillary, Bill (de Blasio), & Blog-alysis
      • 3 Observations by One of ‘Those’ Women of a Certain Age
    • (In)Debted — Undergraduate and Graduate Student Debt?
    • 2.4 minutes of Anti-Trump — Rumpism or “Schadenfreude Fun”
    • Liar Pence’s VEEP Liar Test
    • 3 Doors for Obamacare
    • 3 Futures for Obama’s Foreign-Policy Table Manners
    • A Few Square Feet of Common Ground
    • A Higher Education Way to Stop Keeping the Damned Women Out* of TECH Too?
    • A Political Scientist to Remember
    • A Straight Shooter: As Congress Waits, Obama Acts on Gun Violence
    • ACA + Obama’s Leadership & Democratic Saboteurs (GOP tbs)*
    • All Above the Fold
    • “Cautionary Comments” about Eugenics, Daniel Kevles, Stanley Woodward History Professor at Yale
    • Baby, Baby — Supreme Court & Diminishing Diversity Rights for Native Americans
    • “Got Milk? Obamacare Crushed, Crashed, or Clogged?
    • Bad Gender Benders: Privileging Male Co-Eds & Neotribalism
    • Barbarians at the Gate – Roberts Court Ensures Super PACs Prevail
    • Be-Low Board Economy
    • Belva Lockwood versus Hillary Clinton: A Question of Fame
    • Better Dead than Red, or Better Red than Dead?
    • Bi-Bi-Party Polarization: 46 Gitmo Detainee Names & DOJ LGBTer Encouraging Speech
    • Blog Taxonomy
      • Bodies in Thought
      • Boo Hoo for Bakersfield as Boehner Strikes Back at Native Bakersfield Son, Who Does Understand How Congress is Run
      • Boob-Tube-O-Rama
      • Break Out the Champagne to Celebrate Same-Sex Marriage, but . . .
      • Breaking Bad (Full Text Drone News)
      • Can a Retail Store Pray? The Supreme Court takes on Obamacare
      • Can Jon Be Replaced?
        • Can President Obama Blow Back the Blowback?
      • Can Rubio Land a Punch that Harms Obama?
      • Candid Interview with Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg
      • Categories in Political Communication, Public Opinion & the Vortex
      • Caught — Maddow Features David Cay Johnston’s Trump Taxes Find
      • Chris Christie’s Revenge – Angry White Males without their Doughnuts
      • Christie at CPAC after Putting Down Pensions
      • Christie’s Misdirection Play
      • Cloudy! Obama, IT Industry, & E.U. 5 Year Forecast
      • Coalition of the Unwilling
    • Congressional Clips to Remember
    • Court Cultural Clash Round 2: American Anti-Terrorism Act
    • CUNY & SUNY Free Tuition
    • Data POP (read how – thoughtworks)
    • Death by Triangulation – why HC should or should not declare her Democratic Candidacy
    • Death Profits!
    • Did Renee Ellmers Cost Keven McCarthy His Job (Speaker of the House), and If So Will She be Returned to Congress?
    • Dinner-Table Democracy
    • Disability Disaster Debacle (Enforcing Reform)
    • Dispatches from the Inauguration Front
    • Do American Men (between the ages of 18 and 39) Need Rights?^
    • Do the Math on Obamacare: Division & Subtraction
    • Dueling Professors & Historic Defeat of Majority Leader Cantor
    • Empire’s End
    • Family First in Face of 2016 Horrors
    • Father Doesn’t Know Best
    • Fences to Mend
    • Five Minutes of Freedom Ain’t For Free
    • Flacks or Hacks, or Guardian, Heal Thyself
    • Fox’s Ailes Is Better at Chasing . . .
    • Freeriding Not Enough — Roberts Court Rules in Benefit of Freeloaders
    • GOP Punishes CNN & NBC for Featuring Hillary the Docudrama Queen
    • GOP: Party of Lincoln? Or Falwell?
    • Gov-Speak? Kennedy Watch is not honoring JFK100
    • Graduate Student Debt Crisis? Will Hillary makes this her Healthcare?
    • Grieving Overwhelmed Party (GOP)
    • Gun-Toting Rivals + Is HC a Feminist but Not an Intersectionalist? Or is HC Not Really Human? 
    • Harming Hillary
    • He Who Recuses Himself Accuses Himself
    • Heads or Timbuktu Taliban Tall Tales? Who Knows?
    • Her Mother’s Womb; & Scary Anti-LGBTQ Rhetoric
    • Her Mother’s Rent-a-Womb; & Scary Anti-LGBTQ Rhetoric
    • Hillary Clinton – the Raincoat
    • Hillary Clinton’s Launch Speech (Roosevelt Island, June 13, 2015)
    • Hillary Clinton’s Battle Cry in Beijing
    • Hillary, Barack, & Eleanor (What Wave of Feminism is Clinton Riding?)
    • Hillary’s Congressional Recess Itinerary:
    • Hillary’s Hit List
    • Hillary’s House of Cards
    • Hobbes & Hate from a Grand Canyon State
    • Idea Impact & Intersectionality of Ideas & Identites
    • Identity Politics & Intersectionality
    • If Nouns and Verbs (Not Pronouns) Could Talk?
    • Immigration: Make-or-Break for Obama and the GOP
    • Invest in the Best Ideas
    • Is a Conservative Radio Hosts “Joke” about Hillary, Hate Speech, Free Speech or Inciting Violence?
    • Is Hillary Clinton a Neo-Babylonian Vessel for the Neocons?
    • Just Like a Woman – Hillary Clinton Could Get It All in 2016
    • Key Concepts from Obama Book that Scare Right Wing Hackers
    • Kushner “Krisis”
    • Let the 2016 Singing & Dancing Begin
    • Legacy & Leadership: Black Pride, Principles, and Pragmatism
    • Let’s Face It, Where’s Barack?
    • Let’s Look at It as Presidents in Mirror-Opposite Conversation
    • Letter Knocking Kevin McCarthy Out of Speaker of the House Race – Walter B. Jones to Cathy McMorris Rodgers Oct 6, 2015
    • Looks Like It Will Be Janet Yellen & Good News for Reproductive Rights
    • Misogyny has No Party
    • MOOCs – Machines Make Poor Mentors
    • More Danish than Dutch
    • MSNBC Follows Roger Ailes’s Media Recipe
    • My Crystal Ball
    • My New Facebook Settings Decoupling Experiment-  — Can Online Capitalism be Reformed, Given My Preferences?
    • Narcissistic Idea Consumers (Beware)
    • Neos & Isms Explained
    • Neotribalism: Same Patriarchy, Different Tribe
    • New Civil Rights – Disability Rights, Wars, & the 7% Affirmative Action Solution
    • New Rules & Paycheck Reparations
    • No Homophobic Nation: From Will & Grace to Barack & Sonia
    • No Joe: Why Hillary is Still the Only Viable Democratic Contender
    • Not a Baby or a Fish: Gutting Voting Rights Act of 1965 and Courts as Non-Static Institutions
    • Obama & CUNY’s State-Local-National-International Politics
    • Obama Administration Releases Treasure Trove of NSA Documents
    • Obama Leads on Guns and Immigration
    • Obama Outfoxes the GOP
    • Obama Report on Intelligence & Communication Technologies Posted
    • Obama’s Bold Climate Control Executive Action
    • Obama’s Cosmopolitan Rainbow Spectrum Splits into Sects, or Divide & Conquer
    • Obama’s Diversity and Empathy on the Federal Bench
    • Obama’s Non-Solution Administration (NSA)
    • Obama’s Not a Berliner Speech
    • Obama’s Ping-Pong Paddle Presidency of Executive Action
    • Obamacare – Server Overload for the APP (NOT)
    • Obamacare in Oregon: Frontier Federalism for Participatory Democracy
    • Obamacare vs. the Big Gulp
    • Old Civil Rights (women, persons of color, Native Americans, immigrants)
    • Out of the Frying Pan, Into the Fire – Jeff Bezos’ & J.K. Rowlings’ Communication or Chatter
    • Outfoxing Bulls & Wolves Protecting Plutocrats
    • Parochial Polarized Politics – Obama, Rollouts, natsecwonk & the Rest of the Bullies
    • Party Leaders versus Second Term Sitting Presidents
    • Post 1989 Social Movements & the Vortex and/or Transuniversal Threats
    • Post Trump Stress Disorder — 11/9; not 9/11
    • Pouty-Prince President Trump (Rump) Could Trigger a Revolution?^
    • Prepping for Midterms (Congressional Midterms That Is)
    • President Hillary Rodham Clinton (HRC) Governing Tips Rolled Out on New Blog – iRevoltblog
    • PRISM & the Third American Political Tradition
    • Professors Need Ethics, but New York Times Editors Do Not? Propagating Parental Prejudice
    • Prop 8
    • Qui Tam & Corporate Personhood — McCutcheon Shores Up Snowden
    • R.I.P. GOP – The White Elephant Faces Extinction
    • Re-Educating Muslims, Nederlander (Dutch)-Style
    • Reflections on From My Heart, Mind, Body, & Soul Part I
    • Rendition for Data?
    • Republican Rat Ship Running Time
    • Reverse, Reverse Discrimination Re: Presidential-Religious Leaders’ Holidays?
    • Right Wing Cowards Hacking Again…. (workarounds)
    • Roberts Court Slaps POTUS, Again
    • Roberts Court War on Women
    • Rubio the Robot
    • Safe as Milk (Thanks to the FDA)
    • Say Bye-Bye Voting Rights Act
    • Secret Courts Make Secret Rulings About Secrecy
    • Security Sweep
    • Separations of Powers Power Struggle
    • Sexual Harrassment Statistics for Shaming and Issue Framing?
    • Short-Sightedness on Immigration Reform
    • SLAM-a-Rama OR SLAMs and SCAMs
    • Snowden, Obama’s Surveillance State & Anti-American Degrees
    • Soft Money and Hard Choices for Hillary
    • Sovereignty of (50) States Shadowy Subcontractor Hybrid Social State
    • Stand By Your Man: Roger Ailes, Bill O’Reilly, and the Life of Brian
    • State-Sanctioned Murder and Hollow Politicians’ Words
    • Stop Poking Me?!
    • Sugary Drinks — What New York Health Board Lacks, the Obamas Accommodate
    • Supreme Court Not as Positive as Punting or Sending Anything Down or Down River Implies
    • Supreme Court TV Meets the Cooking Channel?
    • Too Tired, Too Many Global Golf Course Fries Trump
    • Supreme Court War on Women that Ignores States’ Rights
    • Surveillance State Reform? Obama Sabotaging the Saboteurs
    • Sweatin’ With the Angries (“conservative” pop & “stupid” liberal mom on “Morning Joe”)
    • Tea Party Kevin McCarthy Colonial Spanish Tejon Rancher’s Grandson?
    • Teabaggers vs. Firebaggers (blog that bugs the “right” people — right wing hackers)
    • The 21 Women to Watch
    • The Barbarity of Executing Persons with Disabilities—Canadians Are Sure to Cover It, Even if We Don’t
    • The Big Omm
    • The Emperor’s New Underwear
    • The Donald
    • The EU, the Google Gaggle & the Trillionaires’ Club
    • The Flip-Flop Leader
    • The Keyboard Corps: Corps of Chinese Cyber-Warriors
    • Trump the Retrogressive – One Party State Repub
    • The Myth of the War on Women Myth
    • Trump White House Financial Disclosure Forms Filled In — Crony Capitalism
    • The Physical Book Archive of Manhattan (PBAM)
    • Trump’s Gang — Heads or Bodies of State?
    • Trump’s Horns (of a Dilemma?)
    • The Stuff of Legacy — Obama’s Filibuster Victory Means Diversity Can Trump Ideology
    • Trump, Geert, Sessions Knocked Out and Hawaii Wins (This Muslim-Ban Round)
    • Trump, Less Tru More Rump
    • The Terrible Price of Protest
    • The Times is Afraid of Time(s)?
    • Trump, Sovereignty, and Kings?
    • The Vortex & American Political Thought
    • The Vortex, A Nexus, or Intersectionality Across Borders
    • Trump’s S.L.A.P.P. = G.R.O.P.E. (read GOP Reprisal Opposing Public Exposure; or Grotesque Retribution Opposing Public Exposure).
    • The Vortex, A Nexus, or Intersectionality Across Borders
    • Trump’s Wars + Math of APSA Male Presidency Culture
    • Trump’s Deal with the Congressional Democrats — Are We Surprised, Really?
    • Trying to Pull Apart Obama’s Cosmopolitan Rainbow Coalition
    • Trigger
    • Two Cheers for Former First Speaker Pelosi about Weiner & Other Men
    • Trump Embraces Caudillo Politics as Latin America Shuns It
    • Two for One? Three for One? Birds, Frogs, Stones, or Trifectas
    • Two Ribbons for Two Tragedies
    • Trump Tactics; Tactics against Trump
    • Two Rights Make an Exhilarating Left – Showcasing a Leader Who Happens to Be a Woman
    • Unbending Opposition
    • URL Index of URLs about Obama that Scare the Right Wing
    • VAWA & Manhattan Misogyny
    • Victory against DOMA, Start Reading!
    • What a Difference a Bullet (or a Musket Ball) Makes
    • What Do I Mean by Idea Impact?
    • What Does Congress Have To Do with Cockroaches & Guns?
    • What’s in a Frame? Framing Females
    • What’s the Matter with Nebraska?
    • When Robots Attack
    • Sexual Harassment Statistics & Recipes
    • blogs-Amer. pol. dev.
      • Presentism versus Past-ism, by way of Civil War historian Gary Gallagher
      • Identities and Intersections, and Max Tomba’s Glorious “Insurgent Universalities” in Heretical Thought
      • Land, Localization of National Politics, or Should I Call the Feds for an Eviction?
      • “Manalyzing” in Stereo by Distinguished Professor David Waldstreicher, team teaching American Political Development 2020
      • SCAMs, SLAMs, and SLIMs
      • Identities and Intersections, and Max Tomba’s Glorious “Insurgent Universalities” in Heretical Thought

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