Daniel Gildelamadrid is an essayist, critical race theorist, sociologist, and advocate for the Green New Deal and New Great Society.
New Great Society
Qualitative solutions to questions of civil and social rights tend to drift from principal political discourse to the margins, and with the domain of progressive politics increasingly characterized by the quantitative Green New Deal, propositions beyond its scope fall out of core deliberations. Gender pay gaps, intersectional and weight discrimination,
Green New Deal
If we are pragmatic, we must recognize that, under the Trump administration, the Green New Deal is not federally viable. However hostile to Green New Deal politics, the Trump administration’s efforts to undo climate policies can be countered if progressives play their cards right. Within the halls of the
New Great Society
The brutal monolithic design of the LBJ Presidential Library in Austin is a bold transgression of the surrounding green space, holding within its walls the unfinished legacy of former president Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society. I think about the many dedications to LBJ that decorate Texas, from the Presidential