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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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O’Brien Courses @ 365 Fifth Avenue
Prof. O’Brien’s GC Courses, including Fall 2017
Original Doc- Letter Knocking Kevin McCarthy out of Speaker of the House – Walter B. Jones to Cathy McMorris Rodgers Oct 6, 2015
American Political Development Syllabus 2017
“Manalyzing” in Stereo by Distinguished Professor David Waldstreicher, team teaching American Political Development 2020
Power, Resistance, Identities and Social Movements (PRISM) Black Lesbian Feminism as Methodology and a Social Movement Simultaneously
Blogging & the Role of Public Intellectuals (Remote)
Curriculum Vitae
My Books
Amazon Book Page
Crippled Justice
Bodies in Revolt Gender, Disability, and a Workplace Ethic of Care
Bodies in Revolt Gender, Disability, and a Workplace Ethic of Care
Telling Stories Out of Court: Narratives about Women and Workplace Discrimination
University of Chicago Author Page
Out of Many, One: Obama & the 3rd American Political Tradition
Crippled Justice
Voices from the Edge: Narratives about the Americans with Disabilities Act
Workers’ Paradox: The Republican Origins of New Deal Labor Policy
Public Square @ Princeton UP
The Public Square Book Descriptions by Cover
PUP’s Public Square Page
The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party’s Revolution and the Battle over American History by Jill Lepore
The Public Square Princeton University Press Book Series
Uncouth Nation: Why Europe Dislikes America by Andrei S. Markovits
The Posthuman Dada Guide: tzara and lenin play chess by Andrei Codrescu
The End of the West, The Once & Future Europe by David Marquand
The Veil by Joan Wallach Scott
A Public Square Author Won a Million
“Cautionary Comments” about Eugenics, Daniel Kevles, Stanley Woodward History Professor at Yale
Heretical Thought @ OUP
Oxford UP Book Series
assembly by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri
Assembly
Heretical Thought @ OUP USA
Massimiliano Tomba’s Insurgent Universality
The Rise of Neoliberal Feminism
Forthcoming Heretical Thought Author – Diego von Vacano
Bodies in Thought
Posts 1
Blog Taxonomy
So Sue Me
Stories We Tell, Part 1
Stories We Tell, Part 2
Stories We Tell (3): When Does Fariba Amini Matthee, the Wife of Dorothy Munroe Chair of History
We Are Not Traveling
Bound West Three Years Ago
Hard to Reach Me? Encryption is a Woman’s Best Friend or At Least Not
We look to our mothers to save us from injustice and distress | Opinion
Bad Gender Benders: Privileging Male Co-Eds & Neotribalism
Political Elites, Public Opinion, Social Media or No — Women Writing Politics
A Higher Education Way to Stop Keeping the Damned Women Out* of TECH Too?
2
We are ALL Disabled Now – Vaccination
Essential? Whose Body is It Anyway?
From COVID-19 to COVID-21: We are all Persons with Disabilities Now
We Are All PwD Now
We Are Not Traveling
Carol Nackenoff Singing
We look to our mothers to save us from injustice and distress | Opinion
Laughing helps the diaphragm too
Bad Gender Benders: Privileging Male Co-Eds & Neotribalism
3
Biden Better Defund the Capitol Police + Do a Mulvaney, Now Please
3 – 126 or 118 Representatives Trying to Overturn 2020 Presidential Election
President Trump’s Memorandum Criminalizing Antifa Link
Say it Ain’t So, Joe; or Where’s Hillary ClintonWhen We Need Her?
Repub “Hypo-Crits”
“Un-Presidency”* — “Na Na Na Na Hey Hey”
New York Running Insult Tally
Looking For Wildlife in All the Wrong Places
Charlie’s Golden Ticket, or Articles of Confederation, Part II?
Waiting for the 5:30 AM news to drop
Kamala as “Mama-ela”
Twisted, Triangulated News is*
Anarchy Finally Caught Up with Netflix
#portlandprotest quick observations morning after (an august August)
Looking For Wildlife in All the Wrong Places
Unitary Executive-ese (UE-ese) is about defining power and authority, and then this helps us determine an era or a nation’s legitimacy
Surprise Surprise — QAnon being Helped by Trump Campaign
No Photo Zone: Is Portland Cracked?
Trump’s People’s Park
“Flick” of the Wrist Pic Reminder to Brighten-or-Darken One’s Day?
#portlandprotest quick observations morning after (an august August)
(In)Debted — Undergraduate and Graduate Student Debt?
*Supreme Court – Finally Watch-able
2.4 minutes of Anti-Trump — Rumpism or “Schadenfreude Fun”
A Few Square Feet of Common Ground
A Political Scientist to Remember
All Above the Fold
“Un-Presidency”* — “Na Na Na Na Hey Hey”
Caught — Maddow Features David Cay Johnston’s Trump Taxes Find
Anarchy Finally Caught Up with Netflix
ACA + Obama’s Leadership & Democratic Saboteurs (GOP tbs)*
A Straight Shooter: As Congress Waits, Obama Acts on Gun Violence
ACA + Obama’s Leadership & Democratic Saboteurs (GOP tbs)*
Can President Obama Blow Back the Blowback?
Break Out the Champagne to Celebrate Same-Sex Marriage, but . . .
Breaking Bad (Full Text Drone News)
Candid Interview with Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg
Categories in Political Communication, Public Opinion & the Vortex
Boo Hoo for Bakersfield as Boehner Strikes Back at Native Bakersfield Son, Who Does Understand How Congress is Run
Boob-Tube-O-Rama
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
Baby, I’m Back
3 Doors for Obamacare
“Got Milk? Obamacare Crushed, Crashed, or Clogged?
Can a Retail Store Pray? The Supreme Court takes on Obamacare
Baby, Baby — Supreme Court & Diminishing Diversity Rights for Native Americans
3 Futures for Obama’s Foreign-Policy Table Manners
Can Rubio Land a Punch that Harms Obama?
Barbarians at the Gate – Roberts Court Ensures Super PACs Prevail
Can Jon Be Replaced?
Chris Christie’s Revenge – Angry White Males without their Doughnuts
Christie at CPAC after Putting Down Pensions
Christie’s Misdirection Play
Chuck (Grassley) called my mom……
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!
Debating the Obama Presidency (preorder)
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)
Do American Men (between the ages of 18 and 39) Need Rights?^
Dispatches from the Inauguration Front
Do the Math on Obamacare: Division & Subtraction
Dueling Professors & Historic Defeat of Majority Leader Cantor
Empire’s End
Equality Cases, Supreme Court Full Text, 2013
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
Full Text Documents Obama Presidency
Full Texts – Potential Political Thought
Gender, Race and American Political Development Spring 2020, Syllabus with revisions accommodating “the Pandemic of 2020”
Good Furor – NYROB
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?
Harasser vs. Harassed and Assaulted Cash Outs
Hard to Reach Me? Encryption is a Woman’s Best Friend or At Least Not
Harming Hillary
He Who Recuses Himself Accuses Himself
Heads or Timbuktu Taliban Tall Tales? Who Knows?
Her Mother’s 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, Bill (de Blasio), & Blog-alysis
Hillary’s Congressional Recess Itinerary:
Is Hillary Clinton a Neo-Babylonian Vessel for the Neocons?
Hillary’s Hit List
Hillary’s House of Cards
Hobbes & Hate from a Grand Canyon State
Is a Conservative Radio Hosts “Joke” about Hillary, Hate Speech, Free Speech or Inciting Violence?
Just Like a Woman – Hillary Clinton Could Get It All in 2016
Idea Impact & Intersectionality of Ideas & Identites
Identities and Intersections, and Max Tomba’s Glorious “Insurgent Universalities” in Heretical Thought
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
Jane Caputi – Call Your “Mutha’”: A Deliberately Dirty-Minded Manifesto for the Earth Mother in the Anthropocene
Kamala as “Mama-ela”
Key Concepts from Obama Book that Scare Right Wing Hackers
Kushner “Krisis”
Land, Localization of National Politics, or Should I Call the Feds for an Eviction?
Legacy & Leadership: Black Pride, Principles, and Pragmatism
Let the 2016 Singing & Dancing Begin
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
Liar Pence’s VEEP Liar Test
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
More Women in Congress?
MSNBC Follows Roger Ailes’s Media Recipe
My Crystal Ball
My New Facebook Settings Decoupling Experiment- — Can Online Capitalism be Reformed, Given My Preferences?
My Seminars for Spring 2017 (Mondays @ 365 Fifth Avenue)
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
Sour Grapes
Gendering a Traitor
Courageous 10 (GOP House of Representative Members) Impeaching Trump
Amazon Author Page for My Books
Amazon’s Author’s Page of My Books
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