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How Did the GOP Become the Party of Ideas?

If Trump was the end of the “party of ideas,” the rise of Reagan was its start. But what were those “ideas” in the first place, and were they really as new as people said?
by Lawrence B. Glickman via Boston Review on December 9, 2020
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Aaron Sorkin’s Inane, Liberal History Lesson

Why his reformist retelling of the Chicago Seven fails to tell the real story of the leftists on trial.
by Charlotte Rosen via The Nation on November 3, 2020
Cover image of "Freedom an Unruly History"

What We Call Freedom Has Never Been About Being Free

The modern conception of freedom emerged as an antidemocratic reaction by elites who wanted to curtail state power.
by Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins, Annelien de Dijn via The Nation on October 29, 2020
American Imperialism

Warfare State

Democrats and Republicans are increasingly united in an anti-China front. But their approaches to U.S. foreign policy diverge.
by Thomas Meaney via London Review of Books on October 28, 2020
Men at a table surrounded by flags of the world.

Why Is America the World’s Police?

A new book explains how U.S. political elites sold the UN to the public as a route to global peace, while all along wanting it as a cover for militarization.
by Sam Lebovic via Boston Review on October 19, 2020
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How Did American Cities Become So Unequal?

A new history of Ed Logue and his vision of urban renewal documents the broken promises of midcentury liberalism.
by Kim Phillips-Fein via The Nation on October 19, 2020
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What the Rise of Reagan Tells Us About the Age of Trump

Rick Perlstein's "Reaganland" charts the conservative counter-revolution that moved the US to the right.
by Nick Burns via New Statesman on October 14, 2020

Making the Supreme Court Safe for Democracy

Beyond packing schemes, we need to diminish the high court’s power.
by Samuel Moyn, Ryan D. Doerfler via The New Republic on October 13, 2020
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Richard Hofstadter’s Discontents

Why did the historian come to fear the very movements he once would have celebrated?
by Jeet Heer via The Nation on October 6, 2020

The Great Liberal Reckoning Has Begun

The death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg concludes an era of faith in courts as partners in the fight for progress and equality.
by Alan Z. Rozenshtein via The Atlantic on September 22, 2020
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Even After Their Fearmongering Proves Wrong, Republicans Keep at It. Here’s Why.

For close to a century, conservatives have seen all government programs as the road to socialism.
by Lawrence B. Glickman via Made By History on August 31, 2020
Harry Sternberg’s 1947 visualization of fascism as a three-headed monster.

What We Don’t Understand About Fascism

Using the word incorrectly oversimplifies history—and won't help us address our current political crisis.
by Victoria de Grazia via Zócalo Public Square on August 13, 2020

The Death and Rebirth of American Internationalism

As the 2020 presidential election nears, internationalists are plotting their return. But they still haven’t learned from the failure of liberal universalism.
by Edward Fishman via Boston Review on August 11, 2020
A young Julian Bond talking with Bayard Rustin at the 1968 Democratic convention

Julian Bond’s Life in Protest and Politics

A new collection of essays demonstrates how the civil rights icon’s thinking evolved amid the upheavals of the 20th century.
by Robert Greene II via The Nation on August 10, 2020
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Politics, Populism, and the Life of the Mind

An interview with Sean Wilentz on Library of America's new collection of Richard Hofstadter's works.
by Sean Wilentz, Daniel Wortel-London via Journal of the History of Ideas Blog on July 27, 2020

Will We Still Be American After Democracy Dies?

Is being "political" the central force in our identities?
by Johann N. Neem via Public Seminar on July 7, 2020

Rendering Judgment on America

A new book systematically defends the American Founding against those who believe it was destined to end in nihilism.
by Samuel Gregg via Public Discourse on July 1, 2020
Cover of the book These Truths by Jill Lepore.

Only Dead Metaphors Can Be Resurrected

Historical narratives of the United States have never not been shaped by an anxiety about the end of it all. Are we a new Rome or a new Zion?
by George Blaustein via European Journal Of American Studies on June 30, 2020
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Liberal Reform Threatens to Expand the Police Power – Just as it Did in the Past

How calls for “real reforms” have resulted in measures that further shield police from real accountability.
by Max Felker-Kantor via HNN on June 28, 2020

The Idea of a Nation

The idea of a modern nation is both confusing and conflicting. And as the world confronts the current global health crisis, its weaknesses become more apparent.
by Thomas Meaney via The Point on June 12, 2020

Daniel Webster, Yankee National Conservative

What 'the forgotten man of American conservatism' has to say about current debates on the right.
by Joseph S. Laughon via The American Conservative on May 12, 2020

The Yiddishist Neocon

Nancy Sinkoff discusses her new biography of Lucy S. Dawidowicz, a Holocaust historian whose role in the neoconservative movement is often forgotten.
by Nancy Sinkoff, Hadas Binyamini via Jewish Currents on April 23, 2020

What Richard Hofstadter Got Wrong

The late historian and author of “The Paranoid Style in American Politics” misdiagnosed the fate of modern conservatism.
by Chris Lehmann via The New Republic on April 16, 2020

Remnants of the New Deal Order

We can only understand the left’s present dilemmas by seeing them in light of the conflicted legacy of the New Deal.
by Kim Phillips-Fein via Dissent on April 13, 2020
Wendel Willkie

Around the World in 49 Days

A review of "The Idealist: Wendell Willkie’s Wartime Quest to Build One World."
by David Bahr via The Spectator on March 6, 2020

The Vexed History of Zionism and the Left

A new book asks why the left fell out of love with Zionism, but what it reveals is why liberal Zionists fell out of love with the left.
by Joshua Leifer via The Nation on February 10, 2020
Martin Luther King Jr. giving a speech.

Martin Luther King and the 'Polite’ Racism of White Liberals

Many of King’s words about allies ring true today.
by Jeanne Theoharis via Washington Post on January 17, 2020

The Radicalism of Randolph Bourne

Bourne’s affinity with outsiders drove his vision of making North America a united states of communities. His writings have become more relevant than ever.
by Nikhil Pal Singh via New Statesman on January 8, 2020
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When Neoliberalism Hijacked Human Rights

Neoliberals refashioned the idea of freedom by tying it to the free market, and turning it into a weapon to be used against anticolonial projects worldwide.
by Jeanne Morefield via Jacobin on January 5, 2020

Did the New Deal Need FDR?

His political evolution points to a different locus of power than the one liberals tend to invoke when discussing the era’s history.
by Kim Phillips-Fein via The Nation on November 11, 2019
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