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The Staughton Lynd Factor: A Dispatch from the Frontline Trenches of Higher Education in Middle America

Carl Mirra’s The Admirable Radical and Andrej Grubačić’s From Here to There, two valuable tomes, employ the powerful tools of radical history and radical political theory to deal with crucial political, social and moral issues of postindustrial and post-modern American imperial society and culture. They also confirm the iconoclastic historian-activist Staughton Lynd as a contemporary saint and prophet of the American social democratic Left. I do not believe that it is hyperbole to state that Professor Lynd is the American E.P. Thompson and the American Ignazio Silone. Concerning the latter Marxist thinker, Lynd embodies the conception of ‘‘accompaniment’’: he dwells with, and focuses on meeting the tangible needs of, the distressed American working class in the ‘‘rust belt’’ near Youngstown, Ohio. In ‘‘Ebonics,’’ one would say he not just ‘‘talks the talk, but walks the walk.’’ Staughton lays out this authentic radicalism in an inspiring autobiography of himself and his activist wife Alice in Stepping Stones: Memoir of a Life Together (2009).