Shaumbaugh Auditorium
Wednesday, February 8th, 2012 6:30 PM
Political Discourse and Political Dissent: Understanding the Tea Party and "Occupy" Movements
Perhaps the most important and telling consequence of our current political circumstance is the emergence of two new political movements: the “Tea Party,” and “Occupy Wall Street.” This week, we will open with a brief historical survey of political dissent in American history, and then hear from local voices from each of these movements.
READINGS FOR THE TEA PARTY
- Tea Party Primer, Washington Post
- Jill Lepore, The Commandments: The Constitution and its Worshippers, The New Yorker (January 17, 2011)
- Conor Friedersdorf , Why the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street Should Cooperate, The Atlantic (October 2011)
- Steve Fraser and Joshua Freeman, The Strange History of Tea Party Populism, Salon (May 2010)
- Ben McGrath, The Movement, The New Yorker (February 2010)
READINGS FOR OCCUPY WALL STREET
- David Boaz, Editorial: Occupy Pennsylvania Avenue, Cato Policy Report (January/February 2012)
- Nicolaus Mills, Occupy Wall Street: A Primer, The Guardian (November 2011)
- Marco Deseriis and Jodi Dean, A Movement Without Demands? Social Science Research Council (January 2012)
- Joe Lowndes and Dorian Warren, Occupy Wall Street: A Twenty-First Century Populist Movement? Dissent (October 2011)
- George Packer, All the Angry People, The New Yorker (December 2011)
