Blood and Politics
Due to some scheduling changes, Rep. Henry Waxman and Josh Green will not be joining us this week for a Book Club discussion of The Waxman Report. They will be at TPMCafe later this summer instead!
In the meantime, we're extending the great discussion of Leonard Zeskind's Blood and Politics: The History of the White Nationalist Movement from the Margins to the Mainstream into this week. Given recent incidents of violence that have shaped the national debate, this discussion is particularly relevant, and well-served by a panel of experts. Joining Leonard in the discussion are Rinku Sen, President and Executive Director of the Applied Research Center and Publisher of ColorLines magazine; David Weigel, an associate editor of Reason magazine and Reason.com and contributor for The Washington Independent; Michelle Goldberg, journalist and author of Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism; James Ridgeway, Senior Washington Correspondent for Mother Jones and author of Blood in the Face: The Ku Klux Klan, Aryan Nations, Nazi Skinheads, and the Rise of a New White Culture; and Devin Burghart of the Institute for Research & Education on Human Rights and Center for New Community.
Catch up on the discussion here - be sure to read the comments, as Leonard and others have actively participated in certain threads - and keep an eye out for new posts today from the participants.
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