Friday, October 24, 2014
1:00 p.m.
Baffling our Ancestors: C. Wright Mills Then and Now
Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, California

C. Wright Mills, from The Baffler no. 21
In the ultra-civilized precincts of Santa Barbara, The Baffler’s John Summers dares to suggest that anarchism is all you need to run a magazine—that and a tradition to reformulate. Today, he discusses the life and work of the anarchist sociologist C. Wright Mills (1916–1962), the most influential left-wing American intellectual of the twentieth century.
But while you’re here, just remember: if property is theft, beachfront property is grand larceny.
October 24, 2014
Baffling our Ancestors: C. Wright Mills Then and Now
With John Summers
Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, California