My latest, for COMPACT, says all I have to say about the encampment protests.

Before going into that, I think it's important to call attention to the humanitarian crisis in #Gaza that the protests are 'about.' The Biden Administration has belatedly joined most of the rest…

In Newark, a Progressivism That Works compactmag.com/article/in-new…

Behind the Ivy Intifada compactmag.com/article/behind…

This is a difficult and important piece to read.
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Never heard communitarian progressivism together, but I'll take it!
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The Mayor of Newark, Ras Baraka, is the son of the radical black poet Amiri Baraka.

Yet he has done a tremendous job of securing his city against crime by emphasizing community policing.

COMPACT editorial fellow Stephen G. Adubato reports. compactmag.com/article/in-new…

'Newark's left-wing mayor, Ras Baraka, made headlines at the height of the George Floyd protests when he dismissed defunding the police as a 'bourgeois-liberal' idea.'

In Newark, a Progressivism That Works. compactmag.com/article/in-new…

Musa al-Gharbi's nuanced essay on the Columbia intifada is the most-talked-about single essay on the college encampments.

Have you read it yet?

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Lasch warned us about activists who are more concerned about proving that they are on the right side of history and condemning the bad guys than in finding real solutions to the injustices they claim to be fighting

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The best thing I have read on the student protests. Behind the Ivy Intifada compactmag.com/article/behind…

Columbia president Minouche Shafik's authoritarian tactics didn't even work on their own terms. They brought about the very outcome they were supposed to prevent.

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Part of the improvements in City of Newark's public safety is thanks to the efforts of Ras J. Baraka to bring various entities together to the table including @NewarkNJPolicem Newark Community Street Team and grassroots leaders like Lawrence Hamm for US Senate 🌹
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populists of both the left and right need to revisit the lessons radical black activism has to teach us about the value grassroots efforts and taking pride in one's local community

I'm in COMPACT

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students protesting on campus might want to take a page out of the book of Newark's communitarian progressivism, which prizes collaboration & 'bringing everyone to the table', rather than self-indulgent/self-righteous (& ineffective) forms of antagonism compactmag.com/article/in-new…

The differences in Newark now versus 10 years ago are palpable, good and even impressive. This Newark-born Italian kid has a message for Ras J. Baraka: God bless you! (Great piece by a very Newarky-named writer Stephen G. Adubato!)

Whatever else one thinks about the Columbia protests, Minouche Shafik's testimony to congress was a travesty and set the stage for the disasters to follow. This is someone who has no business being a university president.

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COMPACT's latest articles juxtapose 2 different kinds of leaders

Musa al-Gharbi showed how a careerist bureaucrat like Minouche can't get the job done/gets no respect

I showed how a leader who's deeply rooted in the community like Ras Baraka gets the job done plus respect

My latest (free!) Friday Compact newsletter, 'Progress, Protest, and Pathology' substackfwd.xyz/?url=https://c…

Extremely strong & thought provoking piece by Musa al-Gharbi in COMPACT. Explores many of the contradictions (travesties?) that have been troubling me ever since the campus protests (really: the war) began
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You've heard a lot lately about dysfunctional progressive-run cities. You likely haven't heard much about Newark, where mayor Ras Baraka—whose progressive credentials are indisputable—has pursued a more pragmatic, and effective, approach. Stephen G. Adubato compactmag.com/article/in-new…