Fordism

A new history charts the global legacy of Fordist mass production, tracing its appeal to political formations on both the left and the right.

Why do Americans idealize people who found businesses?

The age of optimism that lasted in the US from the 1940s to the 1970s looked, basically, like a car.

Building the assumption of work’s meaningfulness happened across many different institutions and types of media.

Trump, Xi Jinping, and the tariffs.

Over the course of decades, social democracy abandoned workers. Then workers abandoned social democracy.

How the U.S. created a new kind of managed and political monetary system in the wake of World War I.

Panic about Catholics, Freemasons, and, later, Jews, is deeply woven into American history, and forms the basis of our fertile culture of conspiracy theorizing.

And the ways capital took advantage of the state's policing of sexuality.