Radical America

Radical America

Radical America was a product of the campus-based New Left of the late 1960s, specifically the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), but the magazine long outlived its seedbed. Its trajectory shows something about the effort to place an intellectual stamp on the radical impulses of the late twentieth century.

The SDS-connected Radical Education Project, formed in 1966, encouraged SDS members to start long-distance study groups that would explore topics relevant to the new radicalism.

The issues housed at MDR offer a miscellany of articles and documents having to do with the history of American radicalism. A frequent themes were the histories and strategies of New Left organizing efforts.