Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins

A conversation with the activists and writers about their wide-ranging history of the politics of the common good and togetherness.

An intellectual history of inequality in economic theory reveals the ideological reasons behind the field’s resurgence in the last few decades.

An interview with Jennifer Burns on her authoritative new biography of the American economist and the personal and intellectual origins of his theories.

The strange and contradicting development of the liberal version of egalitarianism.

A scholarly roundtable on Samuel Moyn's new book.

A conversation about the Cold War’s profound and negative influence on the liberal worldview.

A conversation on Du Bois' perspective on empire and democracy, the development of his anti-imperial thought, and his vision for transnational solidarity.

A conversation with historian David Hollinger about the rise of evangelicalism, the decline of mainline Protestantism, and the nature of America's secularism.

Smith's influence on American politics, and the misunderstanding at the heart of our idea of the "champion of capitalism."

A conversation with historian Gary Gerstle about understanding neoliberalism as a bipartisan worldview and how the political order it ushered in has crumbled. 

Terence Renaud’s new book compels us to revisit post-war activist movements around the world to understand generational conflicts in the left.

A historian of global health explains how the lack of ICU beds in low-income communities is the result of government spending cuts dating back to the 1970s.

A conversation with Tyler Stovall about his book White Freedom and whether or not the legacy of liberty can break away from racial exclusion and domination.

A wide-ranging conversation with the philosopher on the white supremacist roots of liberal thought, Biden’s victory, and Trumpism without Trump.

The modern conception of freedom emerged as an antidemocratic reaction by elites who wanted to curtail state power.

Historians' prohibition on 'presentism' crumbles under the weight of events.

Daniel Bell was the prophet of a failed centrism. By the end of his life, he was revisiting the leftism of his youth.