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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)

Professor Ruth O'Brien

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      • Gender, Race and American Political Development Spring 2020, Syllabus with revisions accommodating “the Pandemic of 2020”
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      • MOOCs – Machines Make Poor Mentors
  • my books
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    • Out of Many, One: Obama & the 3rd American Political Tradition
    • Crippled Justice
    • Workers’ Paradox: The Republican Origins of New Deal Labor Policy
    • Bodies in Revolt Gender, Disability, and a Workplace Ethic of Care
    • Voices from the Edge: Narratives about the Americans with Disabilities Act
    • Telling Stories Out of Court: Narratives about Women and Workplace Discrimination
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    • The Public Square Book Descriptions by Cover
    • PUP’s Public Square Page
    • The Public Square Princeton University Press Book Series
    • Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities by Martha C. Nussbaum
      • A Public Square Author Won a Million
    • On the Muslim Question by Anne Norton
    • Hidden in Plain Sight: The Tragedy of Children’s Rights from Ben Franklin to Lionel Tate by Barbara Bennett Woodhouse
    • The Posthuman Dada Guide: tzara and lenin play chess by Andrei Codrescu
    • Uncouth Nation: Why Europe Dislikes America by Andrei S. Markovits
    • Joan Wallach Scott’s Sex and Secularism- Public Square book (Princeton U Press)
    • The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party’s Revolution and the Battle over American History by Jill Lepore
    • “Cautionary Comments” about Eugenics, Daniel Kevles, Stanley Woodward History Professor at Yale
  • heretical thought-oxford UP-books
    • OUP advisory board & purchase page
    • Heretical Thought, Oxford University Press, Advisory Board
    • Heretical Thought Advisory Board
    • Heretical Thought, Oxford Univ. Press, USA
    • New Heretical Thought Titles
    • Michael Hardt’s & Antonio Negri’s assembly
    • The Rise of Neoliberal Feminism
    • Forthcoming Heretical Thought Author – Diego von Vacano
    • Massimiliano Tomba’s Insurgent Universality
    • assembly
    • Signed Heretical Thought and the Public Square books in pipelin
    • assembly by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri
    • Bodies in Thought
    • Jane Caputi – Call Your “Mutha’”: A Deliberately Dirty-Minded Manifesto for the Earth Mother in the Anthropocene
    • Identities and Intersections, and Max Tomba’s Glorious “Insurgent Universalities” in Heretical Thought
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    • PUP’s Public Square Page
      • Public Square Author Martha Nussbaum Won a Million
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    • The Plot Against AOC
    • Courageous 10 (GOP House of Representative Members) Impeaching Trump
    • Gendering a Traitor
    • Sour Grapes
    • Chuck (Grassley) called my mom……
    • Santorum Says
    • More Women in Congress?
    • Playing Her Cards Wright
    • Land, Localization of National Politics, or Should I Call the Feds for an Eviction?
    • Misc.
    • Rock Bottom
    • Liar Pence’s VEEP Liar Test
    • Better Dead than Red, or Better Red than Dead?
    • GOP: Party of Lincoln? Or Falwell?
  • 2
    • COVID-19 changing ADAAA and States with strong ADA protection
    • CUNY ADAAA work — who should be on the front line teaching at the Graduate Center
    • We are ALL Disabled Now – Vaccination
  • 1
    • The Grapes of Wrath Revisited
    • As former “Affiliated Scholar” Neera Tanden non-OMB Appointment nothing less than
    • Impeachment so No Immunity
    • Biden Better Defund the Capitol Police + Do a Mulvaney, Now Please
    • The Plot Against AOC
    • Courageous 10 (GOP House of Representative Members) Impeaching Trump
    • 3 – 126 or 118 Representatives Trying to Overturn 2020 Presidential Election
    • Biden Better Defund the Capitol Police + Do a Mulvaney, Now Please
    • Sour Grapes
    • Bound West Three Years Ago
    • Bi-Bi-Party Polarization: 46 Gitmo Detainee Names & DOJ LGBTer Encouraging Speech
    • Women-Impacting-Politics
      • So Sue Me
      • SCAMs, SLAMs, and SLIMs
      • As former “Affiliated Scholar” Neera Tanden non-OMB Appointment nothing less than
      • Will Gretchen Carlson Give Back?
      • Boob-Tube-O-Rama
      • Women Warriors and the War on Women
      • Women Warriors and the War on Women, Part II
      • Stories We Tell (3): When Does Fariba Amini Matthee, the Wife of Dorothy Munroe Chair of History
      • “Flick” of the Wrist Pic Reminder to Brighten-or-Darken One’s Day?
      • Essential? Whose Body is It Anyway?
      • Rape Culture, Rape Daddy, Congress COULD Legislate and Amend IF Congress Preferred Zero Tolerance!
      • Harasser vs. Harassed and Assaulted Cash Outs
      • Real Rape
      • White Nationalists Are Wrong, ‘European’ Does Not Mean ‘White’ by Diego von Vacono
      • The Grapes of Wrath Revisited
      • Anarchy Finally Caught Up with Netflix
      • Bad Gender Benders: Privileging Male Co-Eds & Neotribalism
      • Can Jon Be Replaced?
      • Belva Lockwood versus Hillary Clinton: A Question of Fame
      • Boo Hoo for Bakersfield as Boehner Strikes Back at Native Bakersfield Son, Who Does Understand How Congress is Run
      • President Trump’s Memorandum Criminalizing Antifa Link
      • Essential? Whose Body is It Anyway?
      • Stories We Tell (3): When Does Fariba Amini Matthee, the Wife of Dorothy Munroe Chair of History
      • Heads or Timbuktu Taliban Tall Tales? Who Knows?
      • Hillary Clinton – the Raincoat
      • Her Mother’s Rent-a-Womb; & Scary Anti-LGBTQ Rhetoric
      • Hillary Clinton’s Battle Cry in Beijing
      • 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
      • Stop Poking Me?!
      • The Barbarity of Executing Persons with Disabilities—Canadians Are Sure to Cover It, Even if We Don’t
      • Hillary Clinton’s Launch Speech (Roosevelt Island, June 13, 2015)
      • He Who Recuses Himself Accuses Himself
      • Hillary’s Congressional Recess Itinerary:
      • Hillary’s Hit List
      • Hillary, Bill (de Blasio), & Blog-alysis
      • Hillary, Barack, & Eleanor (What Wave of Feminism is Clinton Riding?)
      • Hillary’s House of Cards
      • Political Elites, Public Opinion, Social Media or No — Women Writing Politics
      • Post 1989 Social Movements & the Vortex and/or Transuniversal Threats
      • Playing Her Cards Wright
      • No Photo Zone: Is Portland Cracked?
      • Is Hillary Clinton a Neo-Babylonian Vessel for the Neocons?
      • Is a Conservative Radio Hosts “Joke” about Hillary, Hate Speech, Free Speech or Inciting Violence?
      • Misogyny has No Party
      • If Nouns and Verbs (Not Pronouns) Could Talk?
      • Invest in the Best Ideas
      • Just Like a Woman – Hillary Clinton Could Get It All in 2016
      • Kamala as “Mama-ela”
      • Harasser vs. Harassed and Assaulted Cash Outs
      • Graduate Student Debt Crisis? Will Hillary makes this her Healthcare?
      • Harming Hillary
      • Letter Knocking Kevin McCarthy Out of Speaker of the House Race – Walter B. Jones to Cathy McMorris Rodgers Oct 6, 2015
      • Let the 2016 Singing & Dancing Begin
      • No Homophobic Nation: From Will & Grace to Barack & Sonia
      • New Rules & Paycheck Reparations
      • Neotribalism: Same Patriarchy, Different Tribe
      • Legacy & Leadership: Black Pride, Principles, and Pragmatism
      • Hard to Reach Me? Encryption is a Woman’s Best Friend or At Least Not
      • Looks Like It Will Be Janet Yellen & Good News for Reproductive Rights
      • More Women in Congress?
      • MSNBC Follows Roger Ailes’s Media Recipe
      • Five Minutes of Freedom Ain’t For Free
      • Fences to Mend
      • More Danish than Dutch
      • Fox’s Ailes Is Better at Chasing . . .
      • Father Doesn’t Know Best
      • Narcissistic Idea Consumers (Beware)
      • Laughing helps the diaphragm too
      • We Are All PwD Now
      • 2.4 minutes of Anti-Trump — Rumpism or “Schadenfreude Fun”
      • #portlandprotest quick observations morning after (an august August)
      • A Higher Education Way to Stop Keeping the Damned Women Out* of TECH Too?
      • Gendering a Traitor
      • (In)Debted — Undergraduate and Graduate Student Debt?
      • Better Dead than Red, or Better Red than Dead?
      • Why does WNYC/PBS in NYC think all public intellectual interviewers are men? — Don’t pledge until we all hear more diverse voices
      • Data POP (read how – thoughtworks)
      • Did Renee Ellmers Cost Keven McCarthy His Job (Speaker of the House), and If So Will She be Returned to Congress?
      • Re-Educating Muslims, Nederlander (Dutch)-Style
      • Rape Culture, Rape Daddy, Congress COULD Legislate and Amend IF Congress Preferred Zero Tolerance!
      • Old Civil Rights (women, persons of color, Native Americans, immigrants)
      • SLAM-a-Rama OR SLAMs and SCAMs
      • Sexual Harrassment Statistics for Shaming and Issue Framing?
      • Soft Money and Hard Choices for Hillary
      • State-Sanctioned Murder and Hollow Politicians’ Words
      • Stand By Your Man: Roger Ailes, Bill O’Reilly, and the Life of Brian
      • Spiritual Sisterhood across States (and by sister I mean any non-patriarchal thinkers welcome)
      • Death by Triangulation – why HC should or should not declare her Democratic Candidacy
      • Death Profits!
      • Caught — Maddow Features David Cay Johnston’s Trump Taxes Find
      • GOP Punishes CNN & NBC for Featuring Hillary the Docudrama Queen
      • Out of the Frying Pan, Into the Fire – Jeff Bezos’ & J.K. Rowlings’ Communication or Chatter
      • Reflections on From My Heart, Mind, Body, & Soul Part I
      • Gun-Toting Rivals + Is HC a Feminist but Not an Intersectionalist? Or is HC Not Really Human? 
      • Good Furor – NYROB
      • PRISM & the Third American Political Tradition
    • Blog Taxonomy
      • Key Concepts from Obama Book that Scare Right Wing Hackers
      • A Political Scientist to Remember
      • Baby, I’m Back
      • Dinner-Table Democracy
      • “Manalyzing” in Stereo by Distinguished Professor David Waldstreicher, team teaching American Political Development 2020
      • Right Wing Cowards Hacking Again…. (workarounds)
      • Looking For Wildlife in All the Wrong Places
    • *Supreme Court – Finally Watch-able
      • Roberts Court Slaps POTUS, Again
      • Roberts Court War on Women
      • New Civil Rights – Disability Rights, Wars, & the 7% Affirmative Action Solution
      • Idea Impact & Intersectionality of Ideas & Identites
      • Post 1989 Social Movements & the Vortex and/or Transuniversal Threats
      • President Hillary Rodham Clinton (HRC) Governing Tips Rolled Out on New Blog – iRevoltblog
      • Sweatin’ With the Angries (“conservative” pop & “stupid” liberal mom on “Morning Joe”)
      • The 21 Women to Watch
      • Syallabus – Contemporary American Political Thought
      • Bad Gender Benders: Privileging Male Co-Eds & Neotribalism
      • Professors Need Ethics, but New York Times Editors Do Not? Propagating Parental Prejudice
      • R.I.P. GOP – The White Elephant Faces Extinction
      • Prop 8
      • Not a Baby or a Fish: Gutting Voting Rights Act of 1965 and Courts as Non-Static Institutions
      • Do American Men (between the ages of 18 and 39) Need Rights?^
      • Hobbes & Hate from a Grand Canyon State
      • Disability Disaster Debacle (Enforcing Reform)
      • Court Cultural Clash Round 2: American Anti-Terrorism Act
      • Sugary Drinks — What New York Health Board Lacks, the Obamas Accommodate
      • Candid Interview with Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg
      • We are ALL Disabled Now – Vaccination
      • Can a Retail Store Pray? The Supreme Court takes on Obamacare
      • Break Out the Champagne to Celebrate Same-Sex Marriage, but . . .
      • Freeriding Not Enough — Roberts Court Rules in Benefit of Freeloaders
      • Essential? Whose Body is It Anyway?
      • Equality Cases, Supreme Court Full Text, 2013
      • Barbarians at the Gate – Roberts Court Ensures Super PACs Prevail
      • Supreme Court War on Women that Ignores States’ Rights
      • Baby, Baby — Supreme Court & Diminishing Diversity Rights for Native Americans
      • Surprise Surprise — QAnon being Helped by Trump Campaign
      • Supreme Court Not as Positive as Punting or Sending Anything Down or Down River Implies
      • Supreme Court TV Meets the Cooking Channel?
      • Say it Ain’t So, Joe; or Where’s Hillary ClintonWhen We Need Her?
      • Qui Tam & Corporate Personhood — McCutcheon Shores Up Snowden
      • Secret Courts Make Secret Rulings About Secrecy
      • Say Bye-Bye Voting Rights Act
    • 6 Functions of American Presidency
      • Impeachment so No Immunity
      • GOP: Party of Lincoln? Or Falwell?
      • Gov-Speak? Kennedy Watch is not honoring JFK100
      • Let’s Look at It as Presidents in Mirror-Opposite Conversation
      • Immigration: Make-or-Break for Obama and the GOP
      • “Un-Presidency”* — “Na Na Na Na Hey Hey”
      • Grieving Overwhelmed Party (GOP)
      • 3 Doors for Obamacare
      • “Got Milk? Obamacare Crushed, Crashed, or Clogged?
      • Essential? Whose Body is It Anyway?
      • Breaking Bad (Full Text Drone News)
      • ACA + Obama’s Leadership & Democratic Saboteurs (GOP tbs)*
      • Can Rubio Land a Punch that Harms Obama?
      • ACA + Obama’s Leadership & Democratic Saboteurs (GOP tbs)*
      • 3 Futures for Obama’s Foreign-Policy Table Manners
      • A Few Square Feet of Common Ground
      • Can President Obama Blow Back the Blowback?
      • A Straight Shooter: As Congress Waits, Obama Acts on Gun Violence
      • Who’s Supporting Whom? Hillary & Barack
      • Be-Low Board Economy
      • Let’s Face It, Where’s Barack?
      • Kushner “Krisis”
      • Will President Obama Exhibit Leadership?
      • Liar Pence’s VEEP Liar Test
      • Charlie’s Golden Ticket, or Articles of Confederation, Part II?
      • My Crystal Ball
      • Chris Christie’s Revenge – Angry White Males without their Doughnuts
      • Christie at CPAC after Putting Down Pensions
      • Cloudy! Obama, IT Industry, & E.U. 5 Year Forecast
      • Christie’s Misdirection Play
      • Congressional Clips to Remember
      • Coalition of the Unwilling
      • Courageous 10 (GOP House of Representative Members) Impeaching Trump
      • Do the Math on Obamacare: Division & Subtraction
      • Obama Administration Releases Treasure Trove of NSA Documents
      • Parochial Polarized Politics – Obama, Rollouts, natsecwonk & the Rest of the Bullies
      • Obamacrats — The Color Purple or How Lame Ducks Can Stampede Elephants
      • Obama’s Cosmopolitan Rainbow Spectrum Splits into Sects, or Divide & Conquer
      • Obamacare vs. the Big Gulp
      • Obama’s Bold Climate Control Executive Action
      • Obama’s Non-Solution Administration (NSA)
      • Obama’s Non-Solution Administration (NSA)
      • Obama’s Not a Berliner Speech
      • Obama’s Diversity and Empathy on the Federal Bench
      • Obamacare in Oregon: Frontier Federalism for Participatory Democracy
      • Obama’s Ping-Pong Paddle Presidency of Executive Action
      • Obama & CUNY’s State-Local-National-International Politics
      • Outfoxing Bulls & Wolves Protecting Plutocrats
      • Obama Leads on Guns and Immigration
      • Obamacare – Server Overload for the APP (NOT)
      • Obama Outfoxes the GOP
      • Obama Report on Intelligence & Communication Technologies Posted
      • Full Texts – Potential Political Thought
      • Dispatches from the Inauguration Front
      • Debating the Obama Presidency (order)
      • Dueling Professors & Historic Defeat of Majority Leader Cantor
      • Full Text Documents Obama Presidency
      • Flacks or Hacks, or Guardian, Heal Thyself
      • Dueling Professors & Historic Defeat of Majority Leader Cantor
      • Family First in Face of 2016 Horrors
      • From COVID-19 to COVID-21: We are all Persons with Disabilities Now
      • Empire’s End
      • New York Running Insult Tally
      • No Joe: Why Hillary is Still the Only Viable Democratic Contender
      • Party Leaders versus Second Term Sitting Presidents
      • Post Trump Stress Disorder — 11/9; not 9/11
      • Surveillance State Reform? Obama Sabotaging the Saboteurs
      • The Donald
      • Teabaggers vs. Firebaggers (blog that bugs the “right” people — right wing hackers)
      • Tea Party Kevin McCarthy Colonial Spanish Tejon Rancher’s Grandson?
      • Taking Care of Business Obama Style
      • The Big Omm
      • The Flip-Flop Leader
      • The Emperor’s New Underwear
      • The EU, the Google Gaggle & the Trillionaires’ Club
      • The Grapes of Wrath Revisited
      • Pouty-Prince President Trump (Rump) Could Trigger a Revolution?^
      • Prepping for Midterms (Congressional Midterms That Is)
      • Presentism versus Past-ism, by way of Civil War historian Gary Gallagher
      • President Trump’s Memorandum Criminalizing Antifa Link
      • Rendition for Data?
      • Repub “Hypo-Crits”
      • Republican Rat Ship Running Time
      • Reverse, Reverse Discrimination Re: Presidential-Religious Leaders’ Holidays?
      • Rock Bottom
      • Rubio the Robot
      • Safe as Milk (Thanks to the FDA)
      • Santorum Says
      • Snowden, Obama’s Surveillance State & Anti-American Degrees
      • Short-Sightedness on Immigration Reform
      • Sovereignty of (50) States Shadowy Subcontractor Hybrid Social State
      • Security Sweep
      • Separations of Powers Power Struggle

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