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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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  • Me
    • About
      • O’Brien Courses @ 365 Fifth Avenue
        • Prof. O’Brien’s GC Seminars
      • 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
    • The Plot Against AOC
    • President Trump’s Memorandum Criminalizing Antifa Link

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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