And you work for rain
no place to stay
cold rain
under bitter stars
you work for rain
of bright buildings
overseen by clouds
shivering
under orange lamp
soaking through clothing
no shelter
you work for rain
About Me
- Alan Gilbert
- I am John Evans professor at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver and author of Marx's Politics:Communists and Citizens (Rutgers, 1980), Democratic Individuality (Cambridge, 1990), Must Global Politics Constrain Democracy (1999) and Black Patriots and Loyalists: Fighting for Emancipation in the War for Independence (Chicago March, 2012).
My Books
Black Patriots and Loyalists: Fighting for Emancipation in the War for Independence
Black Patriots and Loyalists: News, Interviews and Reviews
- Lecture at University of Winnipeg - Founding Amnesia: The Fight Against Bondage & Genocide
- 3:AM Magazine: Non-Fiction Books of the Year List
- American Historical Review: Edward Countryman on Black Patriots and Loyalists
- Asking the Right Questions:- Talk at DU's Joseph Korbel's Speakers Series
- Audio of Wake Up Call with Felipe Luciano on WBAI
- Black Patriots and Loyalists a 2013 American Book of the Year of the Before Columbus Foundation
- Book Review by Douglas Egerton, The Historian (v.74,4)
- Book Review by Haider Khan, Cosmopolis
- Constitution Day Lecture at UT Tyler
- Denver Best Sellers List
- Interview on Soul Mic Metro
- Interview with Justin Desmangles on KDVS California
- Interview with Marc Steiner - WEAA Baltimore
- Interview with Marc Steiner and Dr. Lester Spencer - WEAA Baltimore
- Interview with Richard Marshall on Resonance 104.4 FM - London
- Jose de la Isla: 'Lincoln' and Black Patriots and Loyalists
- Living Dialogues - Radio Interview with Duncan Campbell Part 1
- Newly Freed Slaves and the Fight for American Democracy - Video 1
- Newly Freed Slaves and the Fight for American Democracy - Video 2
- Newly Freed Slaves and the Fight for American Democracy - Video 3
- Newly Freed Slaves and the Fight for American Democracy - Video 4
- Newly Freed Slaves and the Fight for American Democracy - Video 5
- News Report on KTEK tv, Texas
- Page 99 Test with Marshal Zeringue
- Review - University of Denver Magazine
- Review in the Loyalist Gazette
- They whited it out: Interview with Donnie Betts
- Video - Founding Myths - Part 1
- Video - Founding Myths - Part 2
- Video - Founding Myths - Part 3
- Video - Founding Myths - Part 4
- Video - Founding Myths - Part 5
- Video - Founding Myths - Part 6
- Video - Founding Myths - Part 7
- Video of Reading at Tattered Cover - Part 1
- Video of Reading at Tattered Cover - Part 2
- Video of Reading at Tattered Cover - Part 3
- Video of Reading at Tattered Cover - Part 4
- Video of Talk at Boulder Bookstore - Part 1
- Video of Talk at Boulder Bookstore - Part 2
- Video of Talk at Boulder Bookstore - Part 3
- Video of Talk at Boulder Bookstore - Part 4
- Video of Talk at Boulder Bookstore - Part 5
Interviews
Main John Evans and Sand Creek documents and commentary
- Sand Creek Massacre Lecture
- Video: my talk at Northwestern
- The Smithsonian’s ghoulish hoarding of 20,000 skulls – a letter from Glenn Morris, pt. 2
- Iliff’s grisly display of a “biblical” text wrapped in human skin
- Additional evidence from John Evans' letters on his intent toward Cheyennes and Arapahoes
- Evans' late rationalizations and the banality of evil, document 8, part 2
- Methodists repudiate “the doctrine of discovery”
- Documents 1 and 2 Evans’ 1864 Proclamations
- Tink Tinker’s response to my commentary on the first documents revealed the important military conception, to this day, that “Iraq is Indian country”
- Document 3: the Camp Weld meeting
- Document 4: Evans’ statement to the people of Colorado after his firing
- Documents 5 and 6: the letters of Silas Soule and Joseph Cramer
- Document 7: The report of the Joint Congressional Committee on the Conduct of the Civil War
- The crux of the case against John Evans as an exterminator
- Document 8: Evans’ 1888 interview with H.H. Bradford
Other articles on Sand Creek and Evans
- Interview with Duncan Campbell on the massacre
- The Denver Post and the burning issue of Sand Creek
- A letter on the memorial to Chivington at the State Capitol
- Paula Palmer on Sand Creek
- Northwestern student protest about Sand Creek and formation of committee
- Northwestern letter about Evans’ role
- Colorado History Museum
- Correspondance with Gary Roberts: the Exterminators
Posts on Plato
- The Crito: on reading and Socrates’s agency
- What Students of Plato May Learn from the Apology
- Glaucon's Military Obsession: another contradiction about the cave and the ascent, part 3
- Conflicting Images of the Cave: how to read the Republic, part 2
- Images of the Cave: how to read the contradictions in the Republic, part 1
- Satyagraha against one's own people - how Gandhi read Socrates, part 2
- Plato and the Consensus Police
- Hilary Putnam on Heidegger's Slipshod Scholarship
- How Gandhi Read the Apology
- Gandhi, Socrates and Satyagraha, pt 2
- Murder by Drone: the seductiveness of the ring of Gyges
- Gandhi, Socrates and Satyagraha, part 1
- What is the meaning of the naked corpse in Plato’s story of Gyges?
- Initiation in Plato or how Thrasymachus throws the argument off track, part 4
- The Snare of Words, part 3
- The Snare of Words, part 2
- The Snare of Words, part 1
- The Question about Justice and the Threshhold of Mortality
- A Question from Hilary Putnam
- Aesop, Plato and Barking Dogs: a note from Gregory Nagy
- Pythagoras on the Surface and in the Depths of the Republic
- If the City in Speech is Glaucon's, What City is Socrates's?
- The Republic’s Amusing Answer to the Athenian Charge Against Socrates: clean up the gods!
- Socrates' Worst Argument Ever: the philosopher and the barking dog
- The Ring of Gyges and the Murderousness of Politics
- Four Paths through the Republic's Woods
- Polemarchus as a symbol of the Republic's theme - a philosophical warrior for democracy against tyranny
- Politics and the God, part 2
- Politics and the God, part 1
- Going down the line for principle: IF Stone and Socrates in context, part 4
- Distinctions between Xenophon, Plato and Socrates: Stone's Trial of Socrates, part 3
- 2 senses of context in the startling Xenophon: Stone's Trial of Socrates, part 2
- I.F. Stone's The Trial of Socrates: why Plato is hard to read, part 1
- A Nietzschean turn: the roots of the snake goddess revisited, part 4
- Athena as Snake Goddess: women's power and the earth, part 3
- Epidauros: "Western" medicine, snakes and the psyche
- A Resistant Adherent to Democracy, part 2
- How to Read Plato: the farcical speech of the Laws
- The Civil Disobedience of Socrates, part 2
- On the cave and resistance: a conversation with Blinn Combs, part 1
- The Apology's Cave: Socrates' questioning, part 2
- The Apology's Cave: killing lightly, part 1
- The Divine, the Charioteer and Writing in Phaedrus, part 2
- The Living Word and Silent Writing in Phaedrus, part 1
- Plato's Symposium: the love-song of Alcibiades, the meaning of tyranny in Athens and America, part 2
- Plato's Symposium: love and beauty as image and argument, part 1
- Story and Philosophy: the Meno, part 2
- Story and Philosophy: the Meno, part 1
- Hilary Putnam on the 7th Letter and Will Altman on the Athenian Stranger
- Going Down: how Plato affirms Socrates, part 3
- Going Down: on a democratic interpretation of Plato, part 2
- Going Down: on a democratic interpretation of Plato, part 1
- On Some Wonders of Plato
- Mirrors: how Strauss "became" Heidegger in America
- Teaching Heidegger in Athens
- Athena Snake-Goddess, part 2
- Athena's and Asclepius's snakes: women leaders, earth-venoms, healing, part 1
- On "enemies" and extermination: Heidegger, Schmitt and Strauss
- Strong, Kirsch and Faye: what does it mean to say that Heidegger is a philosophical national socialist?
- Mirrors: the cave, Heidegger's Platonic National Socialism, and Leo Strauss, part 1
- Breaking News: The Cave, Heidegger's national socialism, and Leo Strauss
- A Philosopher - Steven Wagner - Looks at War
- Using a God for Politics: a note on the conjunction of Athens and Jerusalem
- Response to Peter Minowitz 1
- Only a Foolish Reactionary Would Assert that "There are no Women Philosophers"
- Living and Dead Words
- The Ring of Gyges, Lord of the Rings
- Crete, the Mysteries and Athenian Democracy
- Cretan Bull Vaulting and Plato's Republic
- What is Lost in Plato's Story of Atlantis?
- Plato's Atlantis and the Subversion of Athens
- Strauss's Vision of a Great Anti-Modern Tyrant and its Bizarre American Consequences
- Do Philosophers Counsel Tyrants?
Poems
My Blogs List
- Balkinization
- Colorado Jobs with Justice
- CPJN - Rob Prince's Blog
- Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
- Imam Ibrahim Kazerooni's blog
- Leiter Reports
- No Comment - Scott Horton
- Out of the Woods - Richard Schmitt
- The Daily Dish - Andrew Sullivan
- The Philosopher's Stone - Robert Paul Wolff
- TomDispatch -Tom Engelhardt
- Vincent Harding - Veterans of Hope
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