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Black family sitting around log cabin, possibly in Florida, 1892.

Plantations Practiced Modern Management

Slaveholding plantations of the 19th century used scientific management techniques—and some applied them more extensively than factories.
by Caitlin C. Rosenthal, Scott Berinato via Harvard Business Review on September 1, 2013
Brigham Young

The Reds Under Romney’s Bed

The most ambitious social experiment in American history that until 1877, explicitly rejected the core values of Victorian capitalism.
by Mike Davis via Los Angeles Review of Books on October 25, 2012
Armed miners at the military headquarters of the United Mine Workers, in Trinidad, Colorado, the month of the Ludlow massacre.

There Was Blood

The Ludlow massacre revisited.
by Caleb Crain via The New Yorker on January 12, 2009
Trucks and cars moving on the highway

Keep on Truckin’

The road to right-wing deregulation began on our nation's highways.
by Matthew D. Lassiter via Democracy Journal on December 10, 2008
John D. Rockefeller and John D. Rockefeller Jr. wearing top hats.

The Rockefellers and Class Warfare

Viewed purely in terms of statistics, the recycling of the Gilded Age moniker makes sense, but comparison masks what’s unique about today’s inequality crisis.
by Beverly Gage via Slate on October 19, 2007
A cream colored map depicting the Middle Passage and trade routes between North America, South America, Africa, and Europe.

What Was Africa to Them?

How historians have understood Africa and the Black diaspora in global conversations about race and identity.
by Kwame Anthony Appiah via New York Review of Books on September 27, 2007
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
Art piece of two black women and a motif of kente cloth and cowrie shells.

The Black Feminist Collective That Gave Us Identity Politics

The Combahee River Collective’s 1977 statement reshaped the politics of the Black left and beyond.
by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor via Hammer & Hope on January 16, 2026
Collage of Trump, Maduro, with an outline of Venezuela, oil wells, and a gas pump

The Big Business of War for Oil

The attack on Venezuela and abduction of Maduro surprised everyone, except oil companies. It's not the first time the U.S. was motivated by corporate interests.
by Zeb Larson via Dame Magazine on January 8, 2026
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
An illustration of two children watching English ships sail to the American colonies.

The Tuttle Twins Learn Incredibly Wrong History Lessons

The libertarian propaganda series is back and worse than ever.
by Rob Larson via Current Affairs on October 29, 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
partner

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
Collage of Donald Trump, a slaughterhouse, and the book "The Jungle".

We Never Left Upton Sinclair’s Jungle

In 1905, Upton Sinclair documented the horrors in America’s slaughterhouses and meatpacking plants. In 2025, Donald Trump is making them worse.
by Chance Phillips via Current Affairs on August 7, 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
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