Todd Gitlin

Todd Gitlin is a professor of journalism and sociology, and the chair of the Ph.D. program in communications, at Columbia University. He is the author of 15 books, including Occupy Nation: The Roots, the Spirit, and the Promise of Occupy Wall Street.

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What's at Stake in Harvard's Fossil-Fuel Divestment Debate
This isn't a disagreement about tactics or style. It's a collision over what the university's role in social change ought to be.
Todd Gitlin
April 30, 2014
Reuters
Don't Turn the Deficit into 'The Passion of the Boomers'
Todd Gitlin
September 22, 2010
Damning a Whole Generation to Make a Policy Point
Todd Gitlin
September 22, 2010
The Hope for Audacity
Todd Gitlin assesses the difference between Obama's outlook and that of FDR and LBJ, and considers what it will take for him to succeed in office.
Todd Gitlin
December 1, 2008
Yes We Did. Overcome.
The author, who was among the activists in Chicago's Grant Park during the 1968 Democratic Convention, reflects on Obama's unifying spirit as part of the lost legacy of the sixties.
Todd Gitlin
November 7, 2008