Benjamin Balthaser

: Benjamin Balthaser is professor of multi-ethnic U.S. literature at Indiana University, South Bend. He is the author most recently of Citizens of the Whole World: Anti-Zionism and the Cultures of the American Jewish Left (Verso), among other titles. His writings have appeared in journals such as Boston Review, Jacobin, American Quarterly and elsewhere.

Benjamin Balthaser / 15 Oct 2026

There is No Progressive America First

A Reply to Peter Beinart

Nearly all major US presidential elections since the Civil War have been framed as attempts to restore the nation and, after a period of troubles, provide a new narrative of national innocence.(...)

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There is No Progressive America First

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