[lbo-talk] terrible political writer gets promotion

Bhaskar Sunkara bhaskar.sunkara at gmail.com
Mon Feb 15 18:56:23 PST 2010


I'd rather them bring back Hitchens even if he devoted his column to explaining why Paul Wolfowitz is a revolutionary, and we reactionaries. She's writing at a level slighty higher than that of your average high school newspaper.

On Feb 15, 2010, at 9:42 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:


> <http://www.thenation.com/blogs/edcut/529703/around_i_the_nation_I>
>
> Around The Nation
> posted by KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL on 02/13/2010 @ 11:22am
>
> The Nation is excited to announce that our March 8th issue (which
> goes live at TheNation.com next Thursday) marks the debut of Melissa
> Harris-Lacewell's new column, Sister Citizen. Harris-Lacewell has
> been a regular blogger here at TheNation.com for the last year,
> writing on topics ranging from President Obama's Nobel prize and
> racial profiling to healthcare reform and the death of Michael
> Jackson. One of the nation's foremost scholars on politics and race,
> Harris-Lacewell will now be one of The Nation's regular print
> columnists.
>
> Harris-Lacewell's column shares its title with her forthcoming book,
> Sister Citizen: A Text For Colored Girls Who've Considered Politics
> When Being Strong Wasn't Enough, and will explore the changing
> meanings of race, gender, faith and citizenship in the 21st century.
> Harris-Lacewell is a regular at TheNation.com and also on MSNBC's
> Morning Joe, The Rachel Maddow Show and Countdown with Keith
> Olbermann.
>
> For a preview of her work, here's an archive of Harris-Lacewell's
> past work in The Nation, and here are her recent posts for The Notion.
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