Jim Sleeper

Jim Sleeper is an author and journalist. More recently, he has become a lecturer of political science at Yale University. [1]

He has written society, politics and race. For several years he was a regular columnist for the New York Daily News. [2] In 2008 he was a regular contributor to Talking Points Memo. He has also contributed to the journal, Dissent.[3]

On 17 November 2012, an article titled "Blame the Latest Israel-Arab War on .....Singapore?" was published on the Huffington Post. The said article received severe criticism for being baseless, hateful and poorly written. The article, without any foundation, smeared the Jewish people, the Chinese race, Israel and Singapore. The article contained numerous factual errors. One such error is Sleeper's allegation that all Singaporean males must serve a bond for receiving subsidies in a local Singaporean university. The truth is that Singaporean males received subsidies for attending a local university by reason of their citizenship and need not serve any bond. Shortly, prior to the publication of the said article, there has been criticism of Yale's collaboration with the National University of Singapore to establish a liberal arts college. In Sleeper's article, many criticisms of Yale are included and it it has been commented that Sleeper had unfairly included unsubstantiated comments on the Jewish people, the Chinese race, Israel and Singapore.

Bibliography

• Liberal Racism (Rowman & Littlefield, 2002) (First edition published by Viking/Penguin, 1997 and 1998).
• The Closest of Strangers: Liberalism and the Politics of Race in New York (W. W. Norton & Co.), 1990; paperback (Norton), 1991.
• In Search of New York (Transaction Books), 1988. Editor. An anthology of reportage, essays, reminiscences, and photography that was a special issue of Dissent magazine in 1987. Contributors include Irving Howe, Ada Louise Huxtable, Michael Harrington, Jim Chapin, Paul Berman, and many others.
• The New Jews (Vintage paperback), 1971. Co-editor; essays by young religious radicals of the time.

Chapters in Anthologies:

• Orwell Into the Twenty-First Century Thomas Cushman and John Rodden, eds. (Paradigm Press, 2005). Chapter: “Orwell’s Smelly Little Orthodoxies – and Ours”
• A Way Out Owen Fiss, Joshua Cohen eds. (Princeton U. Press, 2003); Essay, “Against Social Engineering,” a response to an “urban removal” manifesto by Yale Law Professor. Owen Fiss.
• One America? Stanley Renshon, ed. (Georgetown U. Press, 2001). Essay:“American National Identity in a Post-national Age.”
• Empire City: New York Through the Centuries Kenneth Jackson and David Dunbar, eds. (Columbia U. Press, October 2002). Chapter: “Boodling, Bigotry, and Cosmopolitanism,” about New York City in the late 1980s.
• Post-Mortem: The O.J. Verdict Jeffrey Abramson, editor (Basic Books, 1996). Essay, “Racial Theater,” about the public staging of the O.J. trial.
• The New Republic Guide to the Candidates, 1996 Andrew Sullivan, editor (Basic Books, 1996). Essay on Bill Bradley, the non-candidate, and hisconcerns about civil society.
• Blacks and Jews: Alliances and Arguments Paul Berman, editor (Delacorte, 1995). Chapter: “The Battle for Enlightenment at City College,” on CUNY Prof. Leonard Jeffries and identity politics.
• Debating Affirmative Action Nicolaus Mills, editor. (Dell, 1994). Essay,“Affirmative Action’s Outer Limits.”
• Tikkun Anthology Michael Lerner, editor, 1992. Essay, “Demagoguery in America: Wrong Turns in the Politics of Race.” (One of the early, classic critiques of identity politics in the American left.)

External links

• Interview, "Letting Go of Race," in Atlantic Monthly 1997
• Personal website