• February 13, 2012

saul alinsky

IT WAS THE EVIL COMMIE LITERATURE MADE ‘EM DO IT: A jubilant, revenge-seeking New York Times profile of the Watergate Jr. Four tells us that “they studied leftist activism of years past as their prototype, looking to the tactics of Saul Alinsky, the Chicago community organizer who laid the framework for grass-roots activism in the [...]

You know who was the very first human on the planet to use humor to serious effect? The 20th-century folk hero Saul Alinsky, inventor of community organizing and father of the Quercus genus of shade trees. Before Alinsky, no one ever thought to mock one’s political foes — and after Alinsky, no one ever did [...]