Why We Need an Independent Politics and How to Build It: Michael Kazin Replies

I thought it was only the corporate breed who cut to “the bottom line.” At any rate, Joel Rogers protests too much. The purpose of my comments on the New Party was not to bury what is clearly the wisest of the embryonic alternatives. I only sought to identify weaknesses that its organizers should recognize and may be able to fix.

And, for the record, I read some of the party’s literature, heard its executive director speak at length and respond to many questions (in t...