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InequalityOctober 19, 2020
How Did American Cities Become So Unequal?
A new history of Ed Logue and his vision of urban renewal documents the broken promises of midcentury liberalism.
Kim Phillips-Fein
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HistoryNovember 11, 2019
Did the New Deal Need FDR?
His political evolution points to a different locus of power than the one liberals tend to invoke when discussing the era’s history.
Kim Phillips-Fein
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Economic PolicyDecember 12, 2018
The Bad History—and Bad Politics—of Alan Greenspan and Adrian Wooldridge’s ‘Capitalism in America’
Although the long sweep of American economic history is the ostensible subject of Capitalism in America, it tell us more about Alan Greenspan than about the history of capitalism.
Kim Phillips-Fein
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August 2, 2018
The Making of 20th-Century New York
The history of America's extreme metropolis captures a city caught between radicalism and reaction.
Kim Phillips-Fein
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HistorySeptember 7, 2017
Mont Pelerin in Virginia
A new book on James Buchanan and public-choice theory explores the Southern roots of the free-market right.
Kim Phillips-Fein
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FeminismJune 1, 2017
The Two Women’s Movements
Feminism has been on the march since the 1970s, but so has the conservative backlash.
Kim Phillips-Fein
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The RightMay 4, 2016
The Roots of American Conservatism
Why do the politics of free markets and cultural reaction keep returning like some Republican Freddy Krueger?
Kim Phillips-Fein
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Election 2016February 24, 2016
Who Is the Real Progressive: Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders?
Four historians consider how the Democratic candidates fit within the history of the Progressive tradition.
Kim Phillips-Fein, Charles Postel, Robert Greene II and Michael Kazin
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BudgetsOctober 16, 2013
Lessons From the Great Default Crisis of 1975
Thirty-eight years ago, New York City almost went bankrupt. Then as now, conservatives took a hardline stance.
Kim Phillips-Fein
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Economic PolicyJuly 16, 2013
Mountain Views
Angus Burgin revisits Friedrich Hayek’s Mont Pelerin Society in The Great Persuasion.
Kim Phillips-Fein