Jim Sleeper

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Jim Sleeper
OccupationAuthor and journalist
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater Yale College
Harvard Graduate School of Education [1]
SubjectAmerican political culture, racial politics, news, media and higher education
Notable worksThe Closest of Strangers: Liberalism and the Politics of Race in New York
Liberal Racism
In Search of New York

Jim Sleeper is an American author and journalist. He was a lecturer in political science at Yale University from 1999 to 2020, teaching undergraduate seminars on American national identity and on journalism, liberalism, and democracy.

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He writes primarily on American political culture, [2] racial politics, [3] news, media [4] and higher education. [5] In the 1990s, he wrote two books about racial politics, The Closest of Strangers: Liberalism and the Politics of Race in New York [6] and Liberal Racism. [7] From 1993 to 1995, he was a political columnist for the New York Daily News [8] and an occasional contributor to The New York Times, [9] The Nation , [10] [11] The New Republic , Commonweal , Washington Monthly and other political magazines. From 1988 to 1993, he was an opinion editor and editorial writer for New York Newsday . He was also an occasional commentator on the PBS News Hour [12] and National Public Radio’s All Things Considered .

Sleeper's recent work has appeared in Salon , [13] Foreign Policy , [14] Democracy , [15] The New Republic , [16] Dissent , [17] and Asia Sentinel . His recent writings include critiques of neoconservative and grand strategy policies in the United States and abroad, [18] the corporatization of American higher education, [19] and joint ventures between American universities and universities in authoritarian societies. [20] He also writes extensively about Trumpism and other crises of the American republic, including controversies over freedom of speech. [21] Sleeper has previously written on the Obama administration, [22] Occupy Wall Street, [23] Yale University's venture to establish an undergraduate college in collaboration with Singapore, [22] and gun control in the United States. [24]

From 1983 to 2021, Sleeper was a member of the editorial board and a frequent contributor to the quarterly Dissent , [17] for which he edited In Search of New York, [25] an edition of the magazine in 1987 that was republished by Transaction Books in 1988.

Sleeper was born in Longmeadow, Massachusetts and graduated from Yale College in 1969. He was awarded a doctorate in education from Harvard University in 1977. In the 1970s and 1980s, he taught urban studies and writing at Harvard University, Queens College, and New York University before becoming a New York City journalist and a lecturer at Yale University. In 1982–83, he was a Charles Revson Fellow at Columbia University, studying urban housing development, and in 1998 a fellow at Harvard University's Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy. [26]

Sleeper is married to the political scientist and philosopher Seyla Benhabib. [27] [28]

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References

  1. ↑ "James Sleeper | Department of Political Science". politicalscience.yale.edu.
  2. ↑ "Looking For America". jimsleeper.com. 2011-06-30. Archived from the original on 2013-10-21. Retrieved 2013-10-21.
  3. ↑ "False Comforts" (PDF). Jimsleeper.com. Retrieved 2013-10-21.
  4. ↑ Peters, Justin (2011-05-20). "Read Jim Sleeper's Essay on Ressentiment : Columbia Journalism Review". Cjr.org. Retrieved 2013-10-21.
  5. ↑ "With Friends Like These... Who Will Defend Liberal Education ?" (PDF). Jimsleeper.com. Retrieved 2013-10-21.
  6. ↑ Sleeper, Jim (1991-09-17). Closest of Strangers: Liberalism and the Politics of Race in New York: Jim Sleeper: 9780393307993: Amazon.com: Books. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN   0393307999.
  7. ↑ Sleeper, Jim (2002). Liberal Racism: How Fixating on Race Subverts the American Dream: Jim Sleeper: 9780742522015: Amazon.com: Books. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN   0742522016.
  8. ↑ "racial roots of the LIRR massacre" (PDF). Jimsleeper.com. Retrieved 2013-10-21.
  9. ↑ Sleeper, Jim (4 September 2005). "Allan Bloom and the Conservative Mind". The New York Times. Archived from the original on March 20, 2012.
  10. ↑ "The Nation : Blacks and Jews" (PDF). Jimsleeper.com. Retrieved 2013-10-21.
  11. ↑ Sleeper, Jim (25 October 2007). "Hawking War Guilt". The Nation. Retrieved 2022-02-13.
  12. ↑ "The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour". 26 June 1992. Retrieved 2022-02-13.
  13. ↑ "Salon: Jim Sleeper". Salon. Retrieved 2022-02-13.
  14. ↑ "Foreign Policy: Jim Sleeper". Foreign Policy. 15 October 2021. Retrieved 2022-02-13.
  15. ↑ "Democracy: Jim Sleeper". Democracy. Retrieved 2022-02-13.
  16. ↑ "The New Republic: Jim Sleeper". The New Republic. Retrieved 2022-02-13.
  17. 1 2 "Dissent: Jim Sleeper". Dissent. Retrieved 2022-02-13.
  18. ↑ "Yale's Grand Strategy Program Has Always Been Broken". Foreign Policy. 15 October 2021. Retrieved 2022-02-13.
  19. ↑ Sleeper, Jim (12 December 2019). "The Tragedy of the Yale Commons". The New Republic. Retrieved 2022-02-13.
  20. ↑ "Innocents Abroad? Liberal Educators in Illiberal Societies". Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs. 12 June 2015. Retrieved 2022-02-13.
  21. ↑ "First Amendment's slippery slope: Why are civil liberties advocates joining forces with the right?". Salon. 3 August 2018. Retrieved 2022-02-13.
  22. 1 2 "Jim Sleeper: Bluster in the Beltanschauung". Huffingtonpost.com. 2011-08-30. Retrieved 2013-10-21.
  23. ↑ "Jim Sleeper: Behind The Snarking About OWS". Huffingtonpost.com. 2011-10-31. Retrieved 2013-10-21.
  24. ↑ "Jim Sleeper: Letter to the Marine Who Warned Dianne Feinstein About His Guns and Freedom". Huffingtonpost.com. 2013-01-07. Retrieved 2013-10-21.
  25. ↑ Google Books: In Search of New York, Jim Sleeper. Transaction Publishers. ISBN   9781412826129 . Retrieved 2022-02-13.
  26. ↑ "Shorenstein Center: Publications by Author/Date, "S"". Harvard Kennedy School. Retrieved 2022-02-13.
  27. ↑ Berkowitz, Peter (2015-06-30). "U.S. Universities -- Not So Innocent Abroad?". RealClear Politics. Retrieved 2021-12-11. In 2012, Yale's faculty passed a resolution introduced by professor Seyla Benhabib (to whom Sleeper is married)...
  28. ↑ "Jim Sleeper - The Education Project". The Education Project. Retrieved 2021-12-11.
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