Kim Phillips-Fein

Kim Phillips-Fein, an assistant professor at the Gallatin School of New York University, is the author of Invisible Hands: The Businessmen’s Crusade Against the New Deal.

Articles

Countervailing Powers: On John Kenneth Galbraith (Non-fiction, Books and the Arts)

John Kenneth Galbraith was a satirist of economics as much as a practitioner of it.

Kim Phillips-Fein

Right On, 'Right On'!

Guatemala City

Kim Phillips-Fein and Our Readers

Right On (Conservatives and the American Right, Politics)

Traditionalists are at war with free-marketers, and the far right's resentment is deepening. Is conservatism dead?

Kim Phillips-Fein

Living for the City: Robert Clifton Weaver's Liberalism (Urban Issues, History, Politics)

A biography of Robert Clifton Weaver traces the life and times of an often misunderstood urban reformer.

Kim Phillips-Fein

Hard Times (History)

Amity Schlaes's history of the Great Depression is nothing less than an attempt to reclaim the 1930s for the free market.

Kim Phillips-Fein

Deal Breakers (Economic Policy, Conservatives and the American Right, Gap Between Wealth and Poverty, The Left, Politics)

Two new books seek to galvanize progressives at a key political moment: Paul Krugman's The Conscience of a Liberal and Jonathan Chait's The Big Con.

Kim Phillips-Fein

Letters

PHOTO NATION DEBUT

Harpswell, Me.

Kim Phillips-Fein and Our Readers

Labor Pains (Labor, History)

Robert Fitch's Solidarity for Sale exposes corruption as the cause of the current crisis in American labor.

Kim Phillips-Fein

Texas, Inc. (Government, States, Unions, Politics)

Taking privatization to extremes, a new law ends the public sector as we knew it.

Kim Phillips-Fein

Victory at Yale?