I will eventually gather my thoughts and write a critique on the Left Forum, from which I just came. But for now, here are two videos from the opening of the conference.  

There’s no denying its historic decline, but the left does not lack for issues. It needs only organization. “In contradiction” best describes the American left today. On the one hand, it is fragmented and dispirited, feeling itself distant from the tumble of daily US politics and acutely disgusted by its many-layered corruptions. It [...]