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Publicity photo from the television program All in the Family. Pictured are Carroll O'Connor (Archie Bunker) and Michael Evans (Lionel Jefferson). via Wikimedia
A once popular TV sitcom, “All in the Family,” which ran from January 1971 to April 1979, has been in the news again. Its producer Norman Lear wrote an op-ed piece for the New York Times (July 27, 2022) on the occasion of his hundredth birthday.
Paul Gottfried is editor in chief of Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture. He is also the Raffensperger Professor of Humanities Emeritus at Elizabethtown College, where he taught for 25 years, a Guggenheim recipient, and a Yale Ph.D. He is the author of 14 books, most recently “Antifascism: Course of a Crusade” (2021), and numerous articles and book reviews.
