The Fifth Column

Longtime Republican activist and co-founder of the Center for the American Experiment and journalist-social critic Richard Broderick have launched a new magazine, The Fifth Column, which aims to explore "ways to persuade the American Right and the American Left fo join forces in principled, values-based opposition to unbridled power politics." The current issue features a piece by historian and Minnesota Green Party candidate for lieutenant governor Rhoda Gilman on the relevance of the 1862 Dakota War to today's issues of terrorism and justice; Robert Jensen and Rahul Mahajan on the White House's feigned indifference to antiwar protests; and a nice introductory quote by Hermann Goering at the Nuremberg trials. I squirm anytime I read a bio that includes "Republican activist," but this publication looks like it's got potential.