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ClassApril 28, 2016
We Know We Hate the Establishment—but Do We Know What It Is?
The vague term obscures where power really lies.
Michael Kazin
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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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ActivismAugust 12, 2010
Building a Movement by Offering Solutions
The left’s hope lies in reviving the tradition of speaking in credible, urgent, moral ways about policies to aid the great majority.
Michael Kazin
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Political FiguresAugust 26, 2009
Paranoia Strikes Deep
If Obama and his progressive allies hope to defeat the latest assault on federal power, they will need to go beyond his artful ambivalence.
Michael Kazin
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CultureJune 3, 2008
Strange Alchemy
In A Conservative History of the American Left, Daniel Flynn can’t decide whether to ridicule the left or fear it.
Michael Kazin
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March 15, 2006
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Cultural Criticism and AnalysisSeptember 15, 2005
Barbara Ehrenreich’s White Collar Blues
Barbara Ehrenreich probes a deeper level of white-collar angst: people who lose or quit their corporate jobs and routinely spend months, even years, finding another.
Michael Kazin
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HistorySeptember 23, 2004
In Dubious Battle
Say what you will about the sins of the Bush Administration. But credit it with one small but welcome accomplishment: It has moved Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
Michael Kazin
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Non-fictionOctober 2, 2003
Our Victorian Ancestors
“You are the heirs of one of the country’s great traditions, the Progressive movement that started late in the nineteenth century and remade the American experience piece by piece,” Bill Moyers
Michael Kazin
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BiographyMay 29, 2003
The Holy Land
During the harsh New York City winter of 1909-10, 20,000 garment workers marched and picketed to win recognition of their union.
Michael Kazin