Democracy in Print: The Best of The Progressive Magazine, 1909–2009

Contents

Acknowledgments xxi Introduction: A History of The Progressive Magazine 3 Matthew Rothschild Part 1 Championing Civil Liberties Free Speech and the Right of Congress to Declare the Objects of the War 9 Robert M. La Follette, November 1917 Theodore Dreiser Denounces Campaign Against Communists 12 Theodore Dreiser, September 1931 What Are We Afraid Of? 13 Robert M. Hutchins, December 1950 Freedom’s Most E¤ective Weapon 14 Morris Rubin, April 1954 The Manifest Destiny of America 15 Justice William O. Douglas, February 1955 The Last Best Hope 16 Justice Hugo L. Black, August 1961 On Secrecy 17 Daniel Schorr, July 1976 When Nice People Burn Books 18 Nat Hentoff, February 1983 Lesbian Writer Fights Feminist Censors 20 Holly Metz, August 1989 Your Urine, Please 22 Barbara Ehrenreich, March 2000 c o n t e n t s That Country Wouldn’t Be America 24 Senator Russ Feingold, December 2001 The New McCarthyism 25 Matthew Rothschild, January 2002 Treated Like a Criminal: How the INS Stole Three Days of My Life 27 Behrooz Arshadi, as told to Mark Engler, March 2003 Our Job Is Not to Stand Up and Cheer When the President Breaks the Law 29 Senator Russ Feingold, April 2006 Part 2 Combating Corporate Power Punish the Real O¤enders 33 Robert M. La Follette, May 27, 1911 Borah Tells How Our Wealth Is Divided 34 Senator William E. Borah, May 2, 1931 The Progressive Platform 34 January 5, 1935 Lawless Big Business Must Be Controlled to Save Democracy 35 Harold Ickes, Secretary of the Interior, January 8, 1938 The ProWt in Highway Slaughter 37 Ralph Nader, May 1966 Valley of the Shadow of Death 38 Jane Slaughter, March 1985 Tobacco Roads: Delivering Death to the Third World 40 Morton Mintz, May 1991 They Killed My Son 43 Ron Hayes, December 1995 Free Market Fraud 45 John Kenneth Galbraith, January 1999 Wake Me When We’re Equal 47 Molly Ivins, April 2001 Part 3 Renouncing Empire Why War? 51 Robert M. La Follette, March 18, 1911 The Armed Ship Bill Meant War 53 Robert M. La Follette, March 1917 Defense or Imperialism? 54 Robert M. La Follette, February 1921 Armed Intervention in Nicaragua 54 Robert M. La Follette Jr., January 1927 We Have Got to Lick Churchill Too 56 Milton Mayer, November 23, 1942 Vietnam Whitewash: The Congressional Jury That Convicted Itself 58 Thomas R. Harkin, October 1970 How It All Began 61 David Halberstam, April 1973 Behind the Death Squads 63 Allan Nairn, May 1984 The Secret Behind the Sanctions 65 Thomas J. Nagy, September 2001 The Algebra of InWnite Justice 67 Arundhati Roy, December 2001 Heckled in Rockford 70 Chris Hedges, July 2003 The Scourge of Nationalism 72 Howard Zinn, June 2005 The Curse of Columbus 74 Eduardo Galeano, October 2007 Part 4 Campaigning for Women’s Equality My Baby Girl 79 Carl Sandburg, February 10, 1912 If Things Were Reversed 80 Jane Addams, as recorded by Belle Case La Follette, April 6, 1912 May the Women of the United States Vote in 1920? 81 Belle Case La Follette, February 1920 Women’s Wages in Government 82 Mary Anderson, Women’s Bureau of the Labor Department, as recorded by Belle Case La Follette, December 1926 Women and the Law: Unjust Discrimination 84 Susan Brandeis, February 9, 1930 The “Patriotic” Prostitute 85 Jill Gay, February 1985 Memoirs of a Normal Childhood 87 Bonnie Urfer, October 1986 Awesome Women in Sports 88 Ruth Conniff, May 1993 What Shall I Wear? 90 Elizabeth Karlin, October 1994 An Interview with Katha Pollitt, Columnist for The Nation 92 Ruth Conniff, December 1994 An Interview with Gloria Steinem 95 L. A. Winokur, June 1995 Dulcet Tones 96 Molly Ivins, October 1995 An Interview with Ani DiFranco, Folksinger 96 Matthew Rothschild, May 2000 Part 5 Linking Arms with the Civil Rights Movement The Color Line 101 Belle Case La Follette, August 23, 1913 Twin Evils of the Literacy Test: Privilege and Race Discrimination Threaten the High Standard of This Country 102 Louis D. Brandeis, April 1915 Murdering Negroes 104 Robert M. La Follette, August 1919 Lynching Punishes the Community 104 Anna Howard Shaw, November 1919 The Plunder Harvest in Indian A¤airs 105 Senator Burton K. Wheeler, September 1929 Sato: A Letter to a Japanese American 107 Ernest L. Meyer, January 17, 1942 Revolt Against Jim Crow 109 A. Philip Randolph, May 1948 Intruder in the Dust 110 Murray Kempton, November 1955...