Saul Alinsky: A GOP Bogeyman Who Influences Many On The Left And Right

Michael Kazin and Russell Arben Fox have critiqued Newt Gingrich's claim that “The centerpiece of this campaign . . . is American exceptionalism versus the radicalism of king Alinsky. ” Like them, I find many contemporary

Out of nowhere, he has exhumed Saul Alinsky, whose fame is limited to university sociology departments, and yet whose name is so perfectly evocative of old-style radicalism, vaguely European in sound, that it fits Gingrich's recent formulation,

Newt Gingrich is only the latest in a long line of conservatives who have accused President Obama of being a “Saul Alinsky radical.” And Alinsky, who died when the president was 11, would delight in all the free PR. But he

When Saul Alinsky met George Romney | Buzzfeed publishes photo showing mitt Romney's father palling around with the liberal community organizer.

Mitt Romney's father, liberal Republican George Romney, met with and endorsed infamous progressive activist Saul Alinsky; meanwhile, in a defense of Mitt Romney against charges of racism, the National Black Chamber of