Kim Phillips-Fein

Kim Phillips-Fein teaches American history at New York University’s Gallatin School and is the author of Invisible Hands and Fear City.

Right On Right On

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

Sep 10, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Kim Phillips-Fein

Living for the City: Robert Clifton Weaver’s Liberalism 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.

Dec 22, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Kim Phillips-Fein

Hard Times Hard Times

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

Mar 20, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Kim Phillips-Fein

Deal Breakers Deal Breakers

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.

Nov 21, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Kim Phillips-Fein

Letters Letters

PHOTO NATION DEBUT Harpswell, Me.

Apr 6, 2006 / Kim Phillips-Fein and Our Readers

Labor Pains Labor Pains

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

Feb 16, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Kim Phillips-Fein

Texas, Inc. Texas, Inc.

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

Dec 18, 2003 / Feature / Kim Phillips-Fein

Victory at Yale? Victory at Yale?

Detroit, MI

Oct 23, 2003 / Kim Phillips-Fein and William Johnson

Yale Workers Win Yale Workers Win

Late last week, Yale clerical and maintenance workers who had been striking for three weeks won a contract that will transform the standard of living of clerical workers at the u...

Sep 22, 2003 / Feature / Kim Phillips-Fein

…and the Poor Get Poorer …and the Poor Get Poorer

Collateral damage mounts in Bush's ideological war on the welfare state.

Jul 17, 2003 / Feature / Kim Phillips-Fein

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