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Separation of Power

To make a more perfect union, don’t look to the Founding Fathers.

by William Hogeland via Lapham’s Quarterly on March 14, 2018

On Prejudice

An 18th-century creole slaveholder invented the idea of 'racial prejudice’ to defend diversity among a slaveowning elite.

by Blake Smith via Aeon on March 5, 2018

Conservatives and Counterrevolutionaries

Lily Geismer reviews the second edition of Corey Robin’s “The Reactionary Mind.”

by Lily Geismer via Los Angeles Review of Books on January 19, 2018

Barack Obama and Shinzo Abe at the Lincoln Memorial.

Technocratic Vistas: The Long Con of Neoliberalism

How "liberal democracy" emerged from the wreckage of World War II and became the dominant ideology of our times.

by Jackson Lears via The Hedgehog Review on November 13, 2017

Paul Manafort is a Glossy, Glossy Man

His wardrobe -- and the millions he spent on it -- tell you everything you need to know about power, 1980s-style.

by Robin Givhan via Washington Post on November 1, 2017

The Problem with "Reagan Democrats"

Does the trope obscure more than it illuminates about the 2016 election?

by Leah Wright Rigueur, Brent Cebul on October 19, 2017

The Underclass Origins of the Little Black Dress

The upper classes once imposed the fashion staple on their servants—then they stole it back from them.

by Shelley Puhak via The Atlantic on October 13, 2017

Strikers, Scabs, and Sugar Mongers

How immigrant labor struggles shaped the Hawaii we know today.

by Natasha Varner via Jacobin on August 22, 2017

Triumph of the Shill

The political theory of Trumpism.

by Corey Robin via n+1 on August 9, 2017

A broken pencil lays on top of a standardized testing answer sheet

What Today’s Education Reformers Can Learn From Henry David Thoreau

Snobbish elitism will hurt their cause.

by Jonathan Zimmerman via Made By History on July 12, 2017

Clarence Darrow, left, with William Jennings Bryan, right, at the Scopes Trial.

Now More Than Ever, We Need Less History

The “now more than ever” tendency is everywhere.

by William Hogeland via William Hogeland blog on July 8, 2017

The Souring of American Exceptionalism

Commitment to liberalism once distinguished the U.S. Now, it’s the disdain of elites for their fellow citizens that sets the nation apart.

by David Frum via The Atlantic on July 3, 2017

How Gotham Gave Us Trump

Ever wonder how a lifelong urbanite can resent cities as much as Donald Trump does? First you have to understand ’70s and ’80s New York.

by Michael Kruse via Politico Magazine on June 30, 2017

The New Working Class

Democrats should abandon the specter of the right-wing hard hat, and recognize today's working class for what it really is.

by Gabriel Winant via Dissent on June 27, 2017

Bill O’Reilly Is America’s Best-Selling Historian

And other problems we need to solve before we can get out of this mess.

by Andrew J. Bacevich via The Nation on June 22, 2017

His Kampf

Richard Spencer is a troll and an icon for white supremacists. He was also my high-school classmate.

by Graeme Wood via The Atlantic on June 1, 2017

Penn State University

Why Colleges Should Get Rid of Fraternities for Good

Reform is simply not possible.

by Lisa Wade via TIME on May 19, 2017

Hindenburg exploding

America’s Love Affair With the Hindenburg

Before the German zeppelin met its fiery demise, it was an object of fascination for U.S. radio listeners.

by Michael J. Socolow via Slate on May 5, 2017

Political cartoon depicting fat-cat tycoons sitting on money on a dock made of commodities held aloft by struggling laborers.

From Fat Cats to Egg Heads: The Changing American 'Elite'

American has long been suspicious of “elites”, but just who they are has changed a lot over the last 200 years.

by Steven Conn via Origins on May 1, 2017

Democracy Without the People

Trump inherits a branch of government already well equipped to undermine democracy.

by Thea Riofrancos via n+1 on February 6, 2017

The Weimar Analogy

Comparing Trump's America to fascist Germany only fuels elites' antidemocratic fantasies.

by Daniel Bessner, Udi Greenberg via Jacobin on December 17, 2016

Were the Framers Democrats?

Review of The Framers' Coup: The Making of the United States Constitution, by Michael J. Klarman.

by Cass R. Sunstein via The New Rambler on October 31, 2016

Why Did White Workers Leave the Democratic Party?

Historian Judith Stein debunks liberal myths about racism, the New Deal, and why the Democrats moved right.

by Judith Stein, Connor Kilpatrick via Jacobin on September 6, 2016

Not Our Independence Day

The Founding Fathers were more interested in limiting democracy than securing and expanding it.

by William Hogeland, Jonah Walters via Jacobin on July 4, 2016

Carrie Buck with her mother Emma.

The Forgotten Lessons of the American Eugenics Movement

It's impossible to revisit the history of America's quest for racial purity without sometimes being reminded of the current public discourse.

by Andrea DenHoed via The New Yorker on April 27, 2016

Bank in Revere, Massachusetts.

Partisan Banking and the Emergence of Free Banking in Early 19th-Century Massachusetts

The critical role that banking played in the political struggles of early American history.

by Nicholas Curott via Dissertation Reviews on April 21, 2016

Harvard’s Eugenics Era

When academics embraced scientific racism, immigration restrictions, and the suppression of “the unfit”.

by Adam S. Cohen via Harvard Magazine on March 1, 2016

Aaron Burr: Most Hated Man in American History

A more sympathetic look at Aaron Burr, the man who killed Alexander Hamilton.

by Gordon S. Wood, Matthew Wills, Herbert Sloan via JSTOR Daily on January 14, 2016

Green House: A Brief History of “American Poetry”

Tracing its emergence of as a distinct cultural institution.

by Frank Guan via Prelude on September 22, 2014

The Twin Insurgency

The postmodern state is under siege from plutocrats and criminals who unknowingly compound each other’s insidiousness.

by Nils Gilman via The American Interest on June 15, 2014

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