Timothy Shenk

Jan 13, 2025 | dissentmagazine.org | Patrick Iber |Timothy Shenk |Michael Kazin |Patrick Blanchfield

The Public We Need It is hard to call people into a political project that is deeply incompatible with their sense of what it means to act morally in the world. ▪ Winter 2025 Working on the foreign policy advisory group for the Bernie Sanders primary campaign in 2019 and 2020 changed the way that I process and think about politics. I saw up close the challenges that candidates face in channeling popular frustrations and demonstrating that they have the ability to address them.

Nov 27, 2024 | washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com | Timothy Shenk

Donald J. Trump’s victory in the 2024 election might be an instructive example of Timothy Shenk’s thesis in Left Adrift: What Happened to Liberal Politics: The left is losing because of the seismic transformation of its constituency. But in trying to explain why this has happened, the book is, alas, something of a muddle.

Nov 26, 2024 | dissentmagazine.org | Alyssa Battistoni |Tressie McMillan Cottom |Aziz Rana |Timothy Shenk

A Fractured Coalition A roundtable on the 2024 election. , , , and ▪ November 26, 2024 This conversation took place on November 14, 2024. It has been condensed and edited for clarity. Patrick Iber: Let’s start where AOC started a few days after the election. On Instagram, she asked people who had voted both for her and for Donald Trump to explain themselves. The answers were various. Some people mentioned Gaza.

Oct 31, 2024 | airmail.news | Daniel Oppenheimer |Timothy Shenk

Left Adrift: What Happened to Liberal Politics by Timothy Shenk Timothy Shenk’s new book, Left Adrift: What Happened to Liberal Politics, tries to weave together two stories and sometimes succeeds. One is about the rival careers of two of the major center-left political advisers of the past half-century, Stan Greenberg and Doug Schoen, each of whom has peddled his consultative wares not just in the U.S. but across the world, from the U.K. to South Africa, to Israel, to Ukraine.

Oct 8, 2024 | bookshop.org | Jewish Currents |Timothy Shenk

(Author) FORMAT Buy new or used from an indie through our partner Biblio: Price Condition Seller Bookshop.org has the highest-rated customer service of any bookstore in the world Description A rivalry that remade the political world as we know it today Politics today doesn't look much like it did fifty years ago.