Deepak Bhargava of Freedom Together bundles good lessons from The Radical Fund for funders today. More to say about the interaction of class and race.
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Deepak Bhargava of Freedom Together bundles good lessons from The Radical Fund for funders today. More to say about the interaction of class and race.
Thoughtful review of The Radical Fund in @dissentmag.bsky.social by @cdunning.bsky.social. (Will hand-wringing keep the left from doing what’s required to build power while in exile?) dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...
Amazing students and great to see you Robert!
I'm delighted to announce BU's Clark Legal History Series
@bostonu.bsky.social @bulaw.bsky.social
Weds 4:20 to 6:20:
Starting 1/21: @johnfabianwitt.bsky.social presenting his outstanding new book "The Radical Fund"
Then @sherifgirgis.bsky.social @beaubaumann.bsky.social & more:
@johnfabianwitt.bsky.social
Always fun to talk to @profmmurray.bsky.social — esp about The Radical Fund! @simonandschuster.bsky.social
Nice note on The Radical Fund in the @nytimes.com! Missed it last week. “Engrossing” sounds good! @simonandschuster.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/b...
I suppose people who get paid to process like process? For sure every therapist I’ve ever had likes the idea! Lawyers too. Anyway, go Phillies! ⚾️
This one was fun to write: did 2025 put a final stake thru the heart of the process school? Or was it maybe the beginning of a revival? (Take our course this spring for more!) @yalelawschool-yls.bsky.social @samuelmoyn.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/o...
William E. Nelson, one of the giants of U.S. legal history has passed. I have fond memories of spending a year as a Golieb Fellow at NYU under his tutelage -- as do many others. Sending love and comfort to his family and to all those who who counted him as a friend.
Finkelman reviews @bradsnyderprof.bsky.social for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social: “Snyder details Herndon’s legal odyssey with great insight. He does not make the point directly but provides the evidence that good lawyering matters.”
I'll be at Harvard Book Store this eve at 7 pm, in conversation with @noahrfeldman.bsky.social about The Radical Fund. Among other things, my best effort in 30 years to capture the history of the law in all its multifariousness. Join us!
@harvardbookstore.bsky.social @simonandschuster.bsky.social
Thanks!!
Hey New Haven join the conversation with Kica Matos @nilc.org and me about The Radical Fund, 6:30 this evening at Possible Futures on Edgewood. Liberals and leftists in political exile, a century ago and today. Should be fun! possiblefuturesbooks.com/events/39805...
Many thanks to the @brennancenter.org for compelling conversation about #TheRadicalFund this week. Esp nice to reconnect with former student Lauren Miller Karalunas @yalelawschool-yls.bsky.social
If only there were a story about someone with $1 million giving it away . . . . #TheRadicalFund
Like someone with a $1M net worth giving away $1,090... mostly to themselves
How a band of visionaries and a million dollars upended America – in the 1920s, which had some remarkable similarities to our own era: Historian @johnfabianwitt.bsky.social explains – on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/4ozD5dV
The 1920s had some striking things in common with our own ominous political world today—starting with "gates being shut after several decades of really extraordinary immigration the US"— @johnfabianwitt.bsky.social – on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/4ozD5dV @simonbooks.bsky.social
In Detroit for the ASLH conference? I'm at the Fraser Center Wayne State at 4 pm this afternoon to talk about the archives that brought the story of #TheRadicalFund to life. @reutherlibrary.bsky.social labor.wayne.edu/event-flyers...
Interesting and fun convo with @jonwiener.bsky.social and @thenation.com about resonances between the 2020s and the 1920s: www.thenation.com/podcast/arch...
Smart questions from @zelizer.bsky.social in this conversation earlier today. Did the right co-opt progressives’ most generative 20th c tactics? #TheRadicalFund
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I'm at the Warren Center @harvard.edu today at 4 pm in Robinson Hall's lower library to talk about The Radical Fund. Come on out. I promise good pictures!
Lookong back to look ahead—thoughtful and revelatory by @nickperkins.bsky.social on Mamdani and Walter Lippmann.
jacobin.com/2025/11/lunn...
Harlem Congressman Vito Marcantonio is Mamdani’s closing message—and practiced at the Garland Fund’s law firm. Of course. #TheRadicalFund is all around us. @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
TOC, "Gerontocracy in America" (June 2026)
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New HistPhil post: David Pozen continues our book forum on @johnfabianwitt.bsky.social' s The Radical Fund, questioning whether, given evolution in nonprofit law since the fund's heydey, it can serve as a model for contemporary philanthropy seeing to "upend America."
histphil.org/2025/11/03/c...
Two biggies: the famous Brown v. Board of Ed (1954) and the lesser-known but huge Steele v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad (1944). Also Moore v. Dempsey, Ossian Sweet, the Scottsboro Nine, Missouri ex rel Gaines, and more . . . .
Oh my, the 2020s bidding hard to look like the 1920s. First Billie Eilish, now Gatsby and the Roaring 20s at Mar-a-Lago #TheRadicalFund @simonandschuster.bsky.social
Radicalism (in its Latin sense at least?) is fast becoming a keyword for the age. @fotoole.bsky.social is lucid in the @nybooks.com www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
