The Occupy Spring: Todd Gitlin

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Columbia University Professor Todd Gitlin argues that this country's moral crisis is not about contraception or abortion or same-sex marriage, but about grotesque wealth disparities and the criminal behavior that shook the world economy. "I think it's a shame," he says, "that the notion of moral crisis has been cornered by conservatives who associate 'moral crisis' with phenomena like contraception and abortion and same-sex marriage. I think that the langugae of morality, the language of value, traditionally ought to be, in any case, the language of the left."

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