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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  • about
    • 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

Trump(ed) Presidency

  Blogs about his presidency, including the Trump Administration’s spectrum of thought and sliding supremacies pertaining to “all other persons” in the Constitution

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