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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
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CitiesApril 16, 2013
The Legacy of the 1970s Fiscal Crisis
Nearly forty years after Ford told New York to drop dead, the city is still here—but forever changed.
Kim Phillips-Fein
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CorporationsJuly 24, 2012
Subterranean Blues: On ExxonMobil
Moral indignation is no longer enough to combat the power of Big Oil.
Kim Phillips-Fein
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CultureMay 11, 2011
Countervailing Powers: On John Kenneth Galbraith
John Kenneth Galbraith was a satirist of economics as much as a practitioner of it.
Kim Phillips-Fein
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October 14, 2009
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PoliticsSeptember 10, 2009
Right On
Traditionalists are at war with free-marketers, and the far right’s resentment is deepening. Is conservatism dead?
Kim Phillips-Fein
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CitiesDecember 22, 2008
Living for the City: Robert Clifton Weaver’s Liberalism
A biography of Robert Clifton Weaver traces the life and times of an often misunderstood urban reformer.
Kim Phillips-Fein
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HistoryMarch 20, 2008
Hard Times
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