progressivism

You likely think of the American West as deeply conservative and rural. Yet history shows this politics is very new indeed.

Historians have been too much the ideological allies of Progressivism to permit themselves to see its master flaw.

The problem with progressive intellectuals looking to the nation's founders for progressive models.

It’s not the 1990s anymore. People want the government to help solve big problems. Here’s how the Democrats must respond.

No, “liberal” and “progressive” aren’t synonyms. They have completely different histories—and the differences matter.

A new book argues that the Constitution’s framers believed that vast concentrations of wealth were the enemy of democracy.

New books examine the place of work in our lives—and how people throughout history have tried to change it.

Planning, market coordination, and the National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933.

An effort is underway to restore President Wilson’s reputation as a great reformer. His best reforms were won by a mass movement, often pushing against Wilson.

Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific shows the limits–and power–of mainstream entertainment in addressing weighty social topics.

100 years ago, Chief Justice William Howard Taft made the Court more efficient and more powerful, marking a turning point whose effects are still being felt.

How Cold War liberalism abandoned the vocabulary of hope—and how we still live with the consequences.

Until more Americans know what happened in periods such as the Gilded Age, they can’t protect themselves from those who abuse history to advance poor policy.

Was the nineteenth-century Midwest “the most advanced democratic society that the world had seen”?

Felix Frankfurter was renowned as a liberal lawyer and advocate. Why did he turn out to be such a conservative Supreme Court justice?

For pioneering journalist Bessie Beatty, women’s suffrage and the plight of labor were linked inextricably.

Felix Frankfurter warned that politicians, not the courts, should make policy.

In the 1990s, the New Democrats trusted corporations to do the right thing. The results were disastrous.

What we can learn from the work of the university administrator who went toe to toe with Howard Zinn.

Freedom and prosperity are the most effective cure for the scars of slavery and racism.