Chicago Seven Concepts

From Satori to Silicon Valley: San Francisco and the American Counterculture

by Theodore Roszak · 31 Aug 1986

to be expected. After all, when I was making my way through college, what did I know about Sacco and Vanzetti ... the Memorial Day the Chicago Seven (or was Massacre Time ... the it Moscow passes. Social Eight?) are an Trials . . memory is a shifting cloud. Kids awkwardly segueing into citizenhood Which their

Bureaucracy

by David Graeber · 3 Feb 2015 · 252pp · 80,636 words

life insurance, a whole bunch of things that didn’t make any sense to our generation at all.” —Abbie Hoffman, from the trial of the Chicago Seven (1970) Since its inception in the eighteenth century, the system that has come to be known as “industrial capitalism” has fostered an extremely rapid rate

The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success

by Ross Douthat · 25 Feb 2020 · 324pp · 80,217 words

Nixon-era fulfillment, “a war in Vietnam later; a burning of Black ghettos later; hippies, drugs and many student uprisings later; one Democratic Convention in Chicago seven years later; one New York school strike later; one sexual revolution later; yes, eight years of a dramatic, near-catastrophic, outright spooky decade later, we

The Fran Lebowitz Reader

by Fran Lebowitz · 8 Nov 1994 · 208pp · 67,890 words

bees, the Rockettes, and est-type programs. Under the heading of common desire—previous parenthetical comment likewise applicable—belong rightish political parties, exercise classes, the Chicago Seven, entourages, the New School for Social Research, fun crowds, and est-type programs. That some, if not all, of the particulars in each category seem

Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World

by Naomi Klein · 11 Sep 2023

your own body—what goes into it and how muscular energy is expended.” It was in this context that Jerry Rubin, onetime yippie provocateur and Chicago Seven defendant, became, in the 1980s, a proud yuppie and fitness evangelist. Explaining her own longtime, often conflicted relationship with the gym, Ehrenreich wrote: “I may

The Government of No One: The Theory and Practice of Anarchism

by Ruth Kinna · 31 Jul 2019 · 405pp · 103,723 words

on the Pentagon. In 1968 he was ejected from the US House of Representatives Un-American Activities Committee and stood trial as one of the Chicago seven after disrupting the 1968 Democratic Convention. He was acquitted of conspiracy and charges of incitement were quashed on appeal. Do It! Scenarios of the Revolution

The Zionist Ideas: Visions for the Jewish Homeland—Then, Now, Tomorrow

by Gil Troy · 14 Apr 2018 · 649pp · 185,618 words

-born Reform rabbi who boasted about becoming “more traditional theologically than my family and more radical politically.” He revered Abraham Joshua Heschel, consorted with the Chicago Seven radicals, and marched with Martin Luther King Jr. In March 1973, Wolf published an essay in Sh’ma: The Journal of Jewish Responsibility he helped

The Gang That Wouldn't Write Straight: Wolfe, Thompson, Didion, Capote, and the New Journalism Revolution

by Marc Weingarten · 12 Dec 2006 · 363pp · 123,076 words

defend him- or herself in a court of law. He became the Latino equivalent of white civil rights lawyer William Kunstler, who had defended the Chicago Seven in the wake of the violent clashes between cops and protesters at the 1968 Democratic convention. Acosta first encountered Thompson just prior to his Los

The Unicorn's Secret

by Steven Levy · 6 Oct 2016

as a troubling eclipse of some of the finer values curried in two decades of liberation and self-realization. Jerry Rubin, the former Yippie and Chicago Seven defendant, puts the matter bluntly: “Ira betrayed everything I stood for and possibly everything that he stood for,” he says. His argument is that if

Leaving Orbit: Notes From the Last Days of American Spaceflight

by Margaret Lazarus Dean · 18 May 2015 · 338pp · 112,127 words

. Four assassinations later; a war in Vietnam later; a burning of Black ghettos later; hippies, drugs, and many student uprisings later; one Democratic Convention in Chicago seven years later; one New York school strike later; one sexual revolution later; yes, eight years of a dramatic, near-catastrophic, outright spooky decade later, we