Fred Branfman, author, blogger and early contributor to the current California economic miracle under Governor Jerry Brown, has written a very long apologetic about Noam Chomsky, or more accurately a standard screed against US imperialism and capitalism using Chomsky as a prop. Presumably he thought that invoking the grand old man’s name would somehow spur [...]
From the Pen of David Horowitz: October 12, 2009
One of the most depressing moments of my own political life came when I was given a Ph.D. thesis to read whose subject was the intellectual influences on American policy makers. In 1979, when the Sandinista Marxists staged a coup against the democratic members of Nicaragua’s revolutionary “junta” and established a pro-Soviet, Marxist dictatorship in [...]
Peter Collier – FPM

EDUCATION BA English l96l (cum laude) UC Berkeley. MA English l963 UC Berkeley. TEACHING l963-69–Instructor in Freshman English, UC Berkeley. l966–Instructor in English, University of San Francisco. l964–Professor of English, Miles College, Birmingham, Alabama. l967–Instructor in Sociology, UC Santa Cruz. l977-83–Visiting Writer, UC Berkeley. EDITORIAL 1967-73–Editor, Ramparts Magazine l982-85–Consulting Editor, California Magazine 1992-2000—Editor, Heterodoxy ADMINISTRATIVE 1986-91—Co-director, Second Thoughts [...]


























