"Charged with Intensity"

"Gitlin remained politically involved after the '60s, but also clashed at times with fellow liberals. In the 1990s, he was critical of some of the academic debates over the literary canon and the predominance of male white writers. In his 1995 book 'The Twilight of Common Dreams: Why America Is Wracked by Culture Wars,' he alleged that the focus on what he and others called 'identity politics' was weakening the left overall, writing that while Republicans were gaining power in Washington, the left has been 'marching on the English department.'"

The Albany Times Union reports the death of Todd Gitlin.

And John Halpin at The Liberal Patriot looks back to Gitlin's 1995 book, The Twilight of Common Dreams: Why America Is Wrecked by Culture Wars.