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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
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Liberals, Don’t Abandon the Federal Government

Doing so might kill the next big liberal idea.
by Bruce J. Schulman via Made By History on June 29, 2017

How the Right Gets Reagan Wrong

And what will happen if they don't start getting him right.
by Henry Olson via Politico Magazine on June 26, 2017

Donald Trump and the 'Paranoid Style' in American (Intellectual) Politics

Revisiting Holfstadter's "paranoid style" in the era of Trump.
by Leo P. Ribuffo via The International Security Studies Forum on June 13, 2017
Andrew Jackson, standing

Andy Jackson's Populism

It started with a hatred of crony capitalism.
by Robert W. Merry via The American Conservative on May 3, 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

How Democrats Killed Their Populist Soul

In the 1970s, a new wave of post-Watergate liberals stopped fighting monopoly power. The result is an increasingly dangerous political system.
by Matt Stoller via The Atlantic on October 24, 2016

To Remake the World: Slavery, Racial Capitalism, and Justice

What if we use the history of slavery as a standpoint from which to rethink our notion of justice today?
by Walter Johnson via Boston Review on October 19, 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
Policemen with nightsticks dragging Black man down the street.

What the Kerner Report Got Wrong about Policing

The Kerner report neglected that police were not simply careless with black lives; they deliberately sought to punish black lives.
by Daniel Geary via Boston Review on May 19, 2016
Cover of Rafael Rojas' new book.

Words Are the Weapons, the Weapons Must Go

A new book recovers long-suppressed alternative politics.
by Patrick Iber via Los Angeles Review of Books on April 28, 2016
Bill Clinton in front of a poster that reads "New Democrats".

Atari Democrats

As organized labor lost strength, the Democratic Party turned to professional-class voters to shore up its base.
by Lily Geismer via Jacobin on February 8, 2016

How Hillary Clinton Got On The Wrong Side of Liberals' Changing Theory of American History

What she doesn't get about race and the Civil War.
by Matthew Yglesias via Vox on January 26, 2016
Nancy Reagan speaking at a podium with a "Just say no" logo.

The Suburban Imperatives of America's War on Drugs

Since the 1950s, disparities along class and racial lines have defined the nation's drug policy.
by Matthew D. Lassiter via Process: A Blog for American History on November 17, 2015

The Massive Liberal Failure on Race, Part III

The Civil Rights movement ignored one very important, very difficult question. It’s time to answer it.
by Tanner Colby via Slate on February 27, 2014
LBJ signing the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

The Massive Liberal Failure on Race, Part II

Affirmative action doesn't work. It never did. It's time for a new solution.
by Tanner Colby via Slate on February 10, 2014

Before Greed

There was a time when Americans valued 'competency' over riches and saw wealth as the cause of poverty.
by Richard White via Boston Review on June 7, 2013
Book shelves full of books

Book Culture and the Rise of Liberal Religion

The rise of liberal religion in the United States.
by Matthew S. Hedstrom via Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera on January 29, 2013

Tales of Brave Ulysses

Ulysses S. Grant was overlooked by historians and underestimated by contemporaries. H.W. Brands reevaluates Grant’s presidency.
by H. W. Brands via Lapham’s Quarterly on October 1, 2012

Founding Fathers, Founding Villains

A review of a handful of new books that embody the new liberal originalism.
by William Hogeland via Boston Review on September 1, 2012
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
Alexander Hamilton.

Inventing Alexander Hamilton

The troubling embrace of the founder of American finance.
by William Hogeland via Boston Review on November 1, 2007
Jewish activists hold Passover Seder outside ICE headquarters in New York City to demand an end to Israel's war on Gaza.

The Past, Present, and Future of Left Jewish Identity

Jewish-led Palestine solidarity demonstrations are part of a long history of Jewish identity being bound up in leftist politics.
by Benjamin Balthaser, Shane Burley via Jacobin on June 8, 2025
Bars evoking the border wall superimposed on a photo of a river.

The New Politics Of Territorial Expansion

“Never again” and the “responsibility to protect” now license forcible territorial annexation.
by Nils Gilman, Dirk Moses, Zachariah Mampilly via Noema on May 29, 2025
Scene of prehistoric game hunters.

Prehistory’s Original Sin

We need more than genealogies to know who we are, and who we ought to become.
by Connor Grubaugh via The Hedgehog Review on May 6, 2025
A magnifying glass on C. Wright Mills's book "The Power Elite."

Whatever Happened to the Power Elite?

The trio of interests atop business, military, and government depicted in C. Wright Mills’s postwar critique is no longer united in setting the national agenda.
by Peter Dreier via The New Republic on May 5, 2025
Headshots of Charles Murray, Friedrich Hayek, and Elon Musk in front of a red backgrounds.

Free Markets and Fixed Natures

How neoliberals fell in love with “human nature”—the glue that still unites the divergent factions of the new right.
by Quinn Slobodian via Boston Review on April 9, 2025
Senator Joseph R. McCarthy and his aide Roy Cohn.

Worse Than McCarthyism: Universities in the Age of Trump

The target then was the nonexistent threat of Communist teachers; today, it’s the supposed radicalism of the academy.
by Ellen Schrecker via The Nation on April 3, 2025
Six hands holding a sword with an eagle on the hilt.

The Democratic Promise of Manifest Destiny

All Americans with some education are aware that Manifest Destiny was one of the Bad Things in our past and very few know any more about it than that.
by Hamilton Craig via Compact on March 25, 2025
W.E.B. DuBois, seated in garden reading book, while Shirley Graham DuBois waters plants.

How Black Marxists Have Understood Racial Oppression

Black Marxist thought emphasizes the centrality of capitalism to racial oppression and the destructiveness of that oppression for all workers.
by Jeff Goodwin, Jonah Birch via Jacobin on February 17, 2025
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