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Simon Torracinta

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senior editor @DissentMag / lecturer @HarvardHistSci / contributing editor @BostonReview
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The Limits of Professional-Class Liberalism

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By Simon Torracinta, Brent Cebul, Lily Geismer, Dylan Gottlieb
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Boston Review recently hosted a virtual roundtable featuring contributors to a new collection of essays, Mastery and Drift: Professional-Class Liberals since the 1960s, published by University of Chicago Press. A full video of the event is below. The transcript that follows is of the second half of the event, with moderated discussion. It has been lightly edited for clarity.
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Vibe Goes Down - Parapraxis

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By Simon Torracinta
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Maslow’s theory did not win over the hard-nosed experimentalists of his own discipline. The empirical basis of his theory was decidedly thin, and from the outset he hedged his claims, writing that the “fixed order” of his hierarchy was “not nearly as rigid as we have implied.” But his success in articulating in elementary terms what now appeared as a basic feature of the human condition ensured that he would be taken up by far more consequential fields.
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Can Social Democracy Win Again?

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By Simon Torracinta
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The Rise and Fall of Swedish Social Democracy Kjell Östberg Verso, $34.95 (cloth) When Bernie Sanders was asked in a 2016 Democratic presidential debate what “democratic socialism” meant to him, he responded that we should “look to countries like Denmark, like Sweden and Norway.” Hillary Clinton was unequivocal in her reply: “We are not Denmark.” Yet Sanders kept the line, and his odes to the shining example of Nordic social democracy remained an exhaustive refrain throughout his 2016 and...
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