random radical musings from a semi-retired professor of political theory, some angry, some celebratory, on politics, feminism, religion, detective fiction, movies, and art.
1964-1998
Smith College: Assistant Professor, Associate Professor (1968), Professor (1975), Chairman (1977-81, 1983-85). Sophia Smith Professor of Government 1982-1998
2000-2006
New School
I've written or edited these books:
Primetime Politics (Rowman and Littlefield), 2005.
Equality and Democracy (The New Press), 2000.
Cracks in the Pedestal: Ideology and Gender in Hollywood (UMass Press), 1998.
The Routledge Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Political Thinkers, contributor and co-editor (Routledge), 1997, second edition.
Democracy, editor, (Humanities Press, Key Concepts in Critical Theory Series), 1993.
Routledge Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Political Thinkers, edited with Robert Benewick (Routledge), 1992.
Retrieving Democracy: In Search of Civic Equality (Rowman and Allenheld), 1985; Methuen (London), 1985.
The Pursuit of Inequality (Pantheon Books), 1981; (Martin Robertson: Oxford), 1981; Vintage paperback edition, 1982.
Power and Community: Dissenting Essays in Political Science, edited with Stanford Levinson (Pantheon Books), 1970.
The Political Imagination in Literature: A Reader, edited with Michael Walzer (The Free Press), 1969.
Deadly Logic: The Theory of Nuclear Deterrence (Ohio State Press), 1966; published in paperback by Schocken Books, 1968.