Jim Sleeper is an American author and journalist. He was a lecturer in political science at Yale University from 1999 to 2020, teaching undergraduate seminars on American national identity and on journalism, liberalism, and democracy.
From 1983 to 2021, Sleeper was a member of the editorial board and a frequent contributor to the quarterly Dissent,[17] for which he edited In Search of New York,[25] an edition of the magazine in 1987 that was republished by Transaction Books in 1988.
The Closest of Strangers: Liberalism and the Politics of Race in New York (W. W. Norton & Co.), 1990; paperback (Norton), 1991.
In Search of New York (Transaction Books), 1988. Editor. An anthology of reportage, essays, reminiscences, and photography that was a special issue of Dissent magazine in 1987. Contributors include Irving Howe, Ada Louise Huxtable, Michael Harrington, Jim Chapin, Paul Berman, and many others.
The New Jews (Vintage Books paperback), 1971. Co-editor; essays by young religious radicals of the time.
Chapters in Anthologies:
Normative Tensions: Academic Freedom in International Education, Kevin W. Gray, ed. (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022), Essay: “Innocents Abroad? Liberal Educators in Illiberal Societies.”
Orwell Into the Twenty-First CenturyThomas Cushman and John Rodden, eds. (Paradigm Press, 2005). Chapter: “Orwell’s Smelly Little Orthodoxies – and Ours”
Empire City: New York Through the CenturiesKenneth Jackson and David Dunbar, eds. (Columbia University Press, October 2002). Chapter: “Boodling, Bigotry, and Cosmopolitanism,” about New York City in the late 1980s.
Post-Mortem: The O.J. Verdict Jeffrey Abramson, editor (Basic Books, 1996). Essay, “Racial Theater,” about the public staging of the O.J. trial.
The New Republic Guide to the Candidates, 1996Andrew Sullivan, editor (Basic Books, 1996). Essay on Bill Bradley, the non-candidate, and his concerns about civil society.
Blacks and Jews: Alliances and ArgumentsPaul Berman, editor (Delacorte Press, 1995). Chapter: “The Battle for Enlightenment at City College,” on CUNY Prof. Leonard Jeffries and identity politics.
Tikkun AnthologyMichael Lerner, editor, 1992. Essay, “Demagoguery in America: Wrong Turns in the Politics of Race.” (One of the early, classic critiques of identity politics in the American left.)
^Peters, Justin (2011-05-20). "Read Jim Sleeper's Essay on Ressentiment : Columbia Journalism Review". Cjr.org. Retrieved 2013-10-21.
^"With Friends Like These... Who Will Defend Liberal Education ?" (PDF). Jimsleeper.com. Retrieved 2013-10-21.
^Sleeper, Jim (1991-09-17). Closest of Strangers: Liberalism and the Politics of Race in New York: Jim Sleeper: 9780393307993: Amazon.com: Books. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 0393307999.
^Sleeper, Jim (2002). Liberal Racism: How Fixating on Race Subverts the American Dream: Jim Sleeper: 9780742522015: Amazon.com: Books. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 0742522016.
^"racial roots of the LIRR massacre" (PDF). Jimsleeper.com. Retrieved 2013-10-21.
^Sleeper, Jim (4 September 2005). "Allan Bloom and the Conservative Mind". The New York Times. Archived from the original on March 20, 2012.
^"The Nation : Blacks and Jews" (PDF). Jimsleeper.com. Retrieved 2013-10-21.
^Sleeper, Jim (25 October 2007). "Hawking War Guilt". The Nation. Retrieved 2022-02-13. {{cite magazine}}: Cite magazine requires |magazine= (help)
^"The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour". 26 June 1992. Retrieved 2022-02-13.
^"Salon: Jim Sleeper". Salon. Retrieved 2022-02-13.
^"Foreign Policy: Jim Sleeper". Foreign Policy. 15 October 2021. Retrieved 2022-02-13.
^"Democracy: Jim Sleeper". Democracy. Retrieved 2022-02-13.
^"The New Republic: Jim Sleeper". The New Republic. Retrieved 2022-02-13.
^ ab"Dissent: Jim Sleeper". Dissent. Retrieved 2022-02-13.
^"Yale's Grand Strategy Program Has Always Been Broken". Foreign Policy. 15 October 2021. Retrieved 2022-02-13.
^Sleeper, Jim (12 December 2019). "The Tragedy of the Yale Commons". The New Republic. Retrieved 2022-02-13.
^"Innocents Abroad? Liberal Educators in Illiberal Societies". Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs. 12 June 2015. Retrieved 2022-02-13.
^"First Amendment's slippery slope: Why are civil liberties advocates joining forces with the right?". Salon. 3 August 2018. Retrieved 2022-02-13.
^ ab"Jim Sleeper: Bluster in the Beltanschauung". Huffingtonpost.com. 2011-08-30. Retrieved 2013-10-21.
^"Jim Sleeper: Behind The Snarking About OWS". Huffingtonpost.com. 2011-10-31. Retrieved 2013-10-21.
^"Jim Sleeper: Letter to the Marine Who Warned Dianne Feinstein About His Guns and Freedom". Huffingtonpost.com. 2013-01-07. Retrieved 2013-10-21.
^Google Books: In Search of New York, Jim Sleeper. Transaction Publishers. ISBN 9781412826129. Retrieved 2022-02-13.
^Berkowitz, Peter (2015-06-30). "U.S. Universities -- Not So Innocent Abroad?". RealClear Politics. Retrieved 2021-12-11. In 2012, Yale's faculty passed a resolution introduced by professor Seyla Benhabib (to whom Sleeper is married)...
^"Jim Sleeper - The Education Project". The Education Project. Retrieved 2021-12-11.
External linksedit
Interview, "Letting Go of Race," in Atlantic Monthly 1997