Throwbacks
These two thinkers form a central debate for LOTS of APT. Croly, for example, says we have to harmonize their founding conceptual division, noting “if there is any truth in the idea of a constructive relation between democracy and nationality, this disagreement must be healed.”
Who are Hamilton and Jefferson?
This *shapely* metaphor is advocated by Teddy Roosevelt and Croly as a new, fair kind of politics
What is the Square deal?
This thinker outlined an elite theory of democracy where mass man is more a “bewildered herd” than an “omnicompetent citizen.”
Who is Walter Lippman?
This term indicates John Kenneth Galbraith’s notion for government-supported, organized groups that can check industrial power and original market power
What is countervailing power?
These two dates mark the passage of the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act.
What is 1964 and 1965?
This thinker not only won the Nobel Peace Prize but also wrote a very sharp satirical essay noting men display rather savage instincts, preferring war to investments in education and profit to human life.
Who is Jane Addams?
This institution is used by Thurman Arnold as an illustrative example for a shall we say, interesting style of politics
What is the Insane asylum?
This man is excoriated by Friedman for his vision of government as a deity and paternalistic master
Who is JFK?
This is the problem that has no name for Betty Friedan
What is “a stunting or evasion of growth that is perpetuated by the feminine mystique.”?
These three "c" realms are outlined for the new landscape of the Great Society
What are cities, countryside, classrooms?
This socialist leader won 6% of the vote in 1912 (American Socialist PArty)
Who is Eugene Debs?
This is the metaphor of the broken or corrupt promise that MLK uses in his famous “I have a Dream Speech”
What is the Promissory note -- a bad check; insufficient funds?
This African American organizer insisted that the movement must be rooted in African American self-organization because “all oppressed people must assume the responsibility and take the initiative to free themselves.”
Who is Philip Randolph?
This thinker coined the infamous expression “survival of the fittest”
Who is Herbert Spencer?
These four thinkers in the course were assassinated
Who are Huey Long, Abraham Lincoln, Malcolm X, and MLK?
This thinker encourages us see prejudice more in economic terms, arguing that racial discrimination is the instrument to divide and rule the working population, making white workers see African Americans as competitors not allies
Who is Ralph Bunche?
This craftsman metaphor is used by Dewey to show that there is a role for common man to influence politics, contra Lippmann
What is the Shoemaker parable?
What is the threat MLK seems most concerned about in his letter from a birmingham jail?
What is the White Moderate?
These three strategies are outlined by James Burnham as the options facing foreign policy to deal with the threat of communism
What are Acceptance, Containment, and Liberation?
Betty Friedan calls lesbians this, shall we say, colorful term, in her attempt to purge them from prominent positions in NOW
What is the lavender menace?
This conservative thinker is often described as the most consequential loser of an election because of the staying power of his ideas
Who is Barry Goldwater?
These two thinkers from the last two weeks use the game-like metaphor of an “umpire” to describe the proper role of government
Who are Hoover and Friedman?
This thinker is well known for his thesis of multiple traditions and critique of the consensus theory of liberalism
Who is Professor Rogers smith?
According to Kate Millet, this is a central vehicle of patriarchal power, mediating between the individual and social structure
What is the family?
This thinker wrote an astounding amount of books and essays over a career spanning some 65 years. His full collection of writings make up 37 volumes. No wonder then, he is the most assigned thinker in this course.
Who is John Dewey