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Author: Adam Levin

Adam Levin writes about politics and media, is a board member of the United Nations Association of St. Louis, and is an accomplished trombonist.

The left has no answer for Syria

September 12, 2016 Adam Levin Foreign Policy, Ideas, International, War 2 comments

This year’s catastrophe of an election cycle has led some on the Left to seek refuge with Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein, and

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Memes: A new form of old-school propaganda

July 27, 2016 Adam Levin 2016 Election, Language/Words, Media, Politics One comment

We have to talk about memes. I’m not joking, I swear. It’s kind of disturbing how much of political discourse on social media is

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America needs a new vision of foreign policy

May 20, 2016 Adam Levin 2016 Election, Bernie Sanders, Foreign Policy, Hillary Clinton One comment

The 2016 election cycle continues on its baffling way, but foreign policy issues have largely been neglected, with a few exceptions like ISIS. Each

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How progressives can constructively engage Trump supporters

April 19, 2016 Adam Levin 2016 Election, Bernie Sanders, Ideas, Progressive people One comment

If you read one think piece aimed at breaking down the Trump phenomenon, I highly recommend Jonna Ivin’s essay on coming to terms with

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20 years after Rwanda, genocide remains a “problem from Hell”

March 16, 2016 Adam Levin International, United Nations, Violence Leave a comment

I just finished reading a book worth writing about in light of recent events in Africa and Iraq: Lieutenant General Romeo Dallaire’s Shake Hands

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Recent right-wing violence reeks of proto-Fascism

December 3, 2015 Adam Levin 2016 Election, Violence Leave a comment

During my freshman year in college, my professor for “Political Ideologies” class made a pretty bold claim: “In the next fifty years,” he intoned,

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“Fallout” [the game] and fallout [the nuclear reality]

October 22, 2015 Adam Levin Foreign Policy, International, Nuclear weapons, Technology Leave a comment

“If I had foreseen Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I would have torn up my formula in 1905.” –Albert Einstein. Next month, “Fallout 4,” a highly-anticipated

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National Review compares Bernie Sanders to Nazis: Offensive and inaccurate

August 3, 2015 Adam Levin 2016 Election, Media, Obama, Republicans 2 comments

Commentators cannot seem to leave the memory of Nazi Germany alone. Nazi comparisons became especially heinous after the 2008 presidential election, when haters compared

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Instead of BDS, support progressives in Israel and Palestine

July 3, 2015 Adam Levin International One comment

When Noam Chomsky thinks the Left has gone too far, it’s probably time for some reassessment. The famed intellectual and linguistic philosopher wrote an

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The end of classical conservatism (and why that’s bad for progressives)

April 27, 2015 Adam Levin Republicans One comment

Recently, I heard an interview with David Brooks on NPR, in which he promoted his new book The Road to Character. I haven’t read

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