Marcus Raskin
| Marcus Raskin | |
|---|---|
| Born |
April 30, 1934 Milwaukee, Wisconsin |
| Occupation | social critic, political activist, author, and philosopher |
| Known for | co-founder of the Institute for Policy Studies |
| Spouse(s) | Barbara Bellman (divorced) Lynn Randels |
| Children |
with Bellman: --Erika Raskin Littlewood --Jamie Raskin --Noah Raskin with Randels: --Eden Raskin |
| Parent(s) | Anna Goodman Raskin Ben Raskin |
Marcus Raskin (born April 30, 1934) is a prominent American social critic, political activist, author, and philosopher, working for progressive social change in the United States.
He is the co-founder, with Richard Barnet, of the progressive think tank, the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, DC. He is also a professor of public policy at George Washington University’s School of Public Policy and Public Administration.
Raskin was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the second son of Russian Jewish immigrants. His father, Ben Raskin, and mother, Anna Goodman Raskin, owned a plumbing store in Milwaukee, where his father worked as a master plumbing contractor. At the age of 16, Raskin left home to study at New York's Juilliard School with Rosina Lhevinne and Lee Thompson. He abandoned a career in music to study at the University of Chicago. There Raskin studied with Rexford Guy Tugwell, an economist and member of FDR’s Brain Trust, and Quincy Wright, a legal scholar for whom Raskin served as an assistant during his law school years. He graduated from the University of Chicago with a B.A. in liberal arts in 1954 and from the University of Chicago Law School with a Juris Doctor in 1957.
Raskin moved to Washington, D.C. in 1958, where he became a legislative counsel to a group of liberal congressmen, including Democrats Robert Kastenmeier from Wisconsin and James Roosevelt from California, the oldest son of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Raskin soon became the secretary for the Liberal Project, a group of House liberals, organized by Kastenmeier and Roosevelt into a liberal leadership group. As the secretary, Raskin linked the House members with notable intellectuals, including sociologist David Riesman, historian H. Stuart Hughes, and former finance advisor to Franklin D. Roosevelt, James Warburg.
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