Maurice Isserman
ContributorMaurice Isserman is the author of The Other American: The Life of Michael Harrington.
Summer 2001
A fresh look at the social justice vision of John Cort and the Association of Catholic Trade Unionists (ACTU).
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January 16, 2023
Saving the Soul of America, Again
Fifty years ago, on April 4, 1967, Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered an impassioned speech at the Riverside Church in Manhattan. In eloquence and power, it matched the one he gave at the Lincoln Memorial in 1963.
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November 5, 2015
The Invention of “Catholic Radicalism” and “Pious Apostasy”: Dorothy Day and Michael Harrington
Michael Harrington, founder of DSA, joined the Catholic Worker in 1951 before leaving the Church the next year. Nevertheless, Dorothy Day had a profound influence on him, in effect giving this dutiful son of a prosperous and pious Midwestern family permission to follow his instincts leftward.
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