[lbo-talk] Stomping Out the Reds/Go Blue

Luke Weiger lweiger at umich.edu
Wed Aug 27 12:21:04 PDT 2003


Justin wrote:


> My main dept, philosophy, had Peter Railton (still does),
> at that time a Marxist (I know he's still a leftist);
> at the end of my time there the dept hired Elizabeth
> Anderson, one of the leading left philosophers today.
> English, there was and is my comrade Alan Wald;
> physics there's Dan Axelrod; Natural resources, Bunyan
> Bryant; sociology there was Tillt and Geoff Alexander
> and Howard Berman -- oh, U-M was red enough in them
> days.

U-M social science and humanity departments are filled with tons of libs/progs/soc-dems and a fair number of radicals. Michigan's philosophy department hired Eric Lormand (presumably) after you left. He's probably more radical than Anderson.

-- Luke



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