Joel Rogers is a Professor of Law, Political Science, Public Affairs, and Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Mr. Rogers has written widely on American politics and democratic theory and has worked with and advised many politicians and social movement leaders. He is a contributing editor of The Nation and Boston Review, a MacArthur Foundation “genius” Fellow, and was identified by Newsweek as one of the 100 living Americans most likely to shape U.S. politics and culture in the 21st century.

“I thought what O’Rourke did in Texas was truly remarkable, to make a Senate race in Texas genuinely competitive as O’Rourke did. The Florida stuff is of course very disappointing – I don’t know the final disposition in Georgia – but I would not read this as ‘Oh, I’m sorry. It just shows that the Democrats have a populist, democratic values-based clearly communicated message that cannot win in America, because America has forsaken anything except a worship of almighty mammon.’ I just think that’s wrong.” Joel Rogers, law professor and activist from University of Wisconsin-Madison