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Common Sense (American Magazine)
''Common Sense'' was a monthly political magazine named after the pamphlet by Thomas Paine and published in the United States between 1932 and 1946. It was headquartered in New York City. History ''Common Sense'' was founded in 1932 by two Yale University graduates, Selden Rodman, and Alfred M. Bingham, son of United States Senator Hiram Bingham III. Its contributors were mostly progressives from a wide range of the left-right spectrum, from agrarian populists, "insurgent" Republicans and Farmer-Labor Party activists to independent progressives, Democrat mavericks and democratic socialism, democratic socialists; in general they opposed the Leninist-Stalinist authoritarian American Communist Party and abhorred its wrecker tactics. Their "socialism" tended to the typically non-Marxist indigenous American tradition exemplified by Henry George, Edward Bellamy, Laurence Gronlund, Eugene Debs, Frederic C. Howe, Thorstein Veblen, Robert La Follette, Sr. Politically the magazine tended to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Selden Rodman
Cary Selden Rodman (February 19, 1909 – November 2, 2002) was a prolific American writer of poetry, plays and prose, political commentary, art criticism, Latin American and Caribbean history, biography and travel writing—publishing a book almost every year of his adult life, he also co-edited ''Common Sense'' magazine. Biography Background Born on February 19, 1909, to architect Cary Selden Rodman and Nannie Van Nostrand (Marvin). He had one sibling, Nancy Gardiner Macdonald, who married Dwight Macdonald in 1934. He attended The Loomis Institute and Yale University. With William Harlan Hale, he was founder and editor of the campus magazine ''The Harkness Hoot'' (1930–31). Following university, he edited, with Alfred Mitchell Bingham, the political monthly ''Common Sense'' (1932–43). He served as Master Sgt. O.S.S. in the U.S. Army (1943–45). Poet and anthologist Rodman was first published as a poet in 1932. ''Mortal Triumph and Other Poems'' was followed by narr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |