Adolph L. Reed Jr

ON FEBRUARY 17, 2015, Gregor Baszak and Spencer A. Leonard of the Platypus Affiliated Society conducted an interview with Adolph L. Reed, Jr., author of The Jesse Jackson Phenomenon (1986), W. E. B. Du Bois and American Political Thought (1997), and Stirrings in the Jug (1999). What follows is an edited transcript of their conversation. Spencer A. Leonard: At the beginning of the essay you recently published in Harper’s titled “Nothing Left” you write that the major period of the Left’s influence on the course of American politics was from the mid-1930s to the end of the Second World War. [Read More]