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Cover of Zinn's "A People's History of the United States."

Howard Zinn's History Lessons

"A People’s History" is bad history, albeit gilded with virtuous intentions.
by Michael Kazin via Dissent on April 3, 2004

Ronald Reagan Jokes about the USSR

Reagan's use of jokes to openly mock the Soviet system were part of his broader Cold War strategy.
via Voices & Visions on March 28, 1988
Title card for animated film "Destination Earth".

Destination Earth (1956)

A Cold War-era cartoon celebrates the wonders of oil and free-market capitalism, and the overthrow of the Stalin-like leader of Mars.
by John Sutherland via The Public Domain Review on June 1, 1956
Illustration of Kim Kardashian taking a selfie with drawn-on glasses and hat to resemble James Joyce.

James Joyce, Like Kim Kardashian, Understood a Sex Scandal Could Be Good for Business

'Blank Space' and 'A Danger to the Minds of Young Girls' examine capitalism and the arts in different eras.
by Mark Athitakis via Los Angeles Times on December 11, 2025
Firefighters in the rubble of the World Trade Center.

Honest Truths From Wrongful Deaths

Left-wing intellectuals' early responses to the 9/11 terror attacks.
by Jeremy Varon via Public Seminar on December 3, 2025
Portrait of Morris Hillquit taken between 1910 and 1915.

The Socialist Who Helped Bring Marx to America

The early-20th-century socialist and New York mayoral candidate Morris Hillquit saw liberalism and democracy as a foundation for a transition to socialism.
by Jonathan Michaels via Jacobin on November 10, 2025
Salem MA Postcard of a witch riding a broom

Salem's Absent Witches

Historical and even pop culture references to the source of the town's fame are drowned out by a more generic Halloween ambience.
by Carla Gardina Pestana via Commonplace on November 4, 2025

We Used to Read Things in This Country

Technology changes us—and it is currently changing us for the worse.
by Noah McCormack via The Baffler on October 27, 2025
A far-right meme featuring Murray Rothbard, Hans-Hermann Hoppe, and Ludwig von Mises

From the Cesspool to the Mainstream

New fusionist intellectuals are the missing link between nineteenth-century race science, twentieth-century libertarianism, and the contemporary alt-right.
by Suzanne Schneider via New York Review of Books on October 23, 2025
View looking up at office buildings skyscrapers in Manhattan.

The Eternal Reinvention of the American Downtown

The rise of remote work is only the latest in a long line of challenges that US business districts have faced. This time, cities have a chance to do it right.
by Benjamin Schneider via CityLab on October 23, 2025
Police officer wearing a mask, arrests a man who lowered his mask to smoke a pipe, in 1918.

The Mask

How the history of the anti-mask and anti-vaccination movements hang together.
by Thomas Schlich, Bruno J. Strasser via Active History on October 10, 2025
Milton Friedman (left) in 1978.

Freedom and the State in Thomas Sowell’s America

Tracing Thomas Sowell’s shift from Marxism to the Chicago school of economics.
by Oscar Hughff-Coates via Journal of the History of Ideas Blog on October 6, 2025
Apple Company store in Chongqing, China.

How American Tech Made China an Economic Superpower

"Apple in China" tells the incredible story of China’s industrial development through the lens of America’s most iconic tech giant.
by Daniel Cheng via Damage on September 9, 2025

Latin America, the United States, and the Creation of Social-Democratic Modernity

A Q&A with the author of "America, América: “A New History of the New World.”
by Greg Grandin, Alexander Aviña via Public Books on September 9, 2025
Cover of "Born In Flames" book.

Incendiary Schemes

A new book reveals systematic, profitable, and deadly arson schemes perpetrated by landlords and insurance companies in the Bronx.
by Charlotte E. Rosen via Protean on September 7, 2025

America’s Coal Age

Black gold powered the United States’ transition from backwater to global hegemon.
by Emmet Penney via The American Conservative on September 5, 2025
Maxo Vanka's name imposed over his murals.

Ghosts of the American Left in Millvale

The murals at Croatian Catholic Church of St. Nicholas in Millvale do indeed have an implicit politics that was intimately familiar to the congregation.
by Timothy Grieve-Carlson via Pittsburgh Review of Books on September 3, 2025
Frankenstein illustration, with a skull and book on floor.

Dr. Frankenstein’s Benchmark: The S&P 500 Index and the Observer Paradox

Nearly seventy years after its creation, the S&P 500 may be fit for purpose, but it is clearly no longer the narrow one of the 1950s.
by Daniel Peris via American Affairs on August 20, 2025
Young mother, St. Ann's Ave at E. 140th St., Bronx, 1977
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Life in the Firestorm

The 21st century American city was forged in the embers of the 1970s arson wave.
by Bench Ansfield via HNN on August 19, 2025
Elon Musk wields a 'chainsaw for bureaucracy' on stage before speaking at CPAC.

Beyond Markets: A Conversation with Quinn Slobodian

How the New Right emerged from neoliberalism’s inner split.
by Quinn Slobodian, James Duesterberg via The Point on August 5, 2025
A Farm Security Administration representative visits Seabrook Farms in New Jersey in May 1938.

Destiny of the Dispossessed Spinach Prince

John Seabrook’s history of Seabrook Farms, where many incarcerated Japanese Americans worked during WWII, is ultimately about fathers and sons.
by Nick Ripatrazone via The Bulwark on July 25, 2025
The shark approaches the boat in a scene from the film Jaws.

The Undeniable Greatness of Jaws

Jaws is a landmark hit, but also a sharp 1970s film shaped by political ire, social critique, and realist cinema’s lasting influence.
by Eileen Jones via Jacobin on July 24, 2025
The four Harper Brothers, founders of the namesake publishing giant.
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The 200 Year History of American Virtue Capitalism

Despite the recent backlash against DEI, there is a longstanding tradition of virtue capitalism in the United States.
by Joseph P. Slaughter via Made By History on July 23, 2025
A former coal miner works at a computer station at the Bit Source LLC office in Pikeville, Kentucky

The Rise and Fall of the Knowledge Worker

Knowledge workers, were supposed to be the beneficiaries of neoliberalism and globalization until AI and a hypercompetitive employment market.
by Vinit Ravishankar, Mostafa Abdou via Jacobin on July 10, 2025
Workers adjust a metal sheet on a Titan missile assembly line.

The Permanent War Economy Doesn’t Benefit Workers

Advocates of “military Keynesianism” present it as a boon for the working class. In reality, it diverts resources away from social provision.
by Hanna Goldberg via Jacobin on June 23, 2025
Attica after state police stormed the prison, 1971.

How Should We Remember Attica?

Orisanmi Burton’s "Tip of the Spear" uncovers the obscured and radical demands of the inmates who staged the 1971 prison uprising—a world without prisons.
by Charlotte E. Rosen via The Nation on May 26, 2025
Illustration of lady liberty balancing housework and child care, holding cash instead of a torch.

The World That ‘Wages for Housework’ Wanted

The 1970s campaign fought to get women paid for their work in the home—and envisioned a society built to better support motherhood.
by Lily Meyer via The Atlantic on May 23, 2025
Karl Marx gazing off into the distance while surrounded by books

Karl Marx’s Legacy in the United States

For two centuries, Karl Marx’s thoughts have significantly impacted US politics. In turn, his close study of the US informed the development of his ideas.
by Andrew Hartman, Cal Turner, Sara Van Horn via Jacobin on May 18, 2025
Protestors hold anti-communist picket signs outside of a theatre

The Grim Timeliness of “Noir and the Blacklist”

A new Criterion series of McCarthy-era noir films is a timely collection for an era of rising government repression.
by Eileen Jones via Jacobin on May 4, 2025
Lin Taiyi takes dictation from her father, Dr. Lin Yutang, on a typewriter he invented.

Lost and Found: The Unexpected Journey of the MingKwai Typewriter

Its ingenious design inspired generations of language-processing technology, but only one prototype was made and had long been assumed lost.
by Yangyang Chen via Made In China Journal on May 2, 2025
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