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The Book of Liberal Maladies
On Samuel Moyn's Cold War liberalism.
by
John Ganz
via
Unpopular Front
on
January 18, 2024
What Betty Friedan Knew
Judge the author of the “Feminine Mystique” not by the gains she made, but by her experience.
by
Hermione Hoby
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The New Republic
on
December 1, 2023
Samuel Moyn Can’t Stop Blaming Trumpism on Liberals
"Liberalism Against Itself" makes an incoherent attack on liberalism.
by
Jonathan Chait
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Intelligencer
on
September 7, 2023
The Black Radical Tradition Can Guide Our Struggles Against Oppression
Uncovering a tradition of African American radicalism that was—and is—a crucial part of the American left’s history.
by
Robin D. G. Kelley
,
Daniel Denvir
via
Jacobin
on
July 6, 2023
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Chicago’s Mayoral Election Feels Like 1983 All Over Again — But It Isn’t
Decades of failed promises have left voters apathetic or pessimistic.
by
Gordon Mantler
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Made By History
on
March 8, 2023
Forty Years of Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Nebraska’
Decades after its release, the haunted highways and haunted characters of the Boss’s largely acoustic masterpiece still haunt the American psyche.
by
Elizabeth Nelson
via
The Ringer
on
December 14, 2022
Myths of Doom
Can the origins of today’s right be traced to the 1990s?
by
John Ganz
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The Nation
on
November 29, 2022
Why Reading History for Its “Lessons” Misses the Point
On Lewis Mumford, Herman Melville, and the gentle art of looking back in time.
by
Daniel Immerwahr
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Slate
on
June 6, 2022
Why We Should Read Hannah Arendt Now
"The Origins of Totalitarianism" has much to say about a world of rising authoritarianism.
by
Anne Applebaum
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The Atlantic
on
March 17, 2022
Behind the Critical Race Theory Crackdown
Racial blamelessness and the politics of forgetting.
by
Sam Adler-Bell
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The Forum
on
January 13, 2022
American, Racist, Jewish
The very American racism of the notorious late Rabbi Meir Kahane.
by
Shaul Magid
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Tablet
on
October 12, 2021
The Prophet of Maximum Productivity
Thorstein Veblen’s maverick economic ideas made him the foremost iconoclast of the Age of Iconoclasts.
by
Kwame Anthony Appiah
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New York Review of Books
on
January 3, 2021
Art Lessons From the 1970s For Survival In An Ecologically Blighted World
The Harrisons’ eco-art told stories about the apocalypse, pointing to a future where we’d all have to be survival artists
by
W. Patrick McCray
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Aeon
on
October 29, 2020
The Wages of Whiteness
One idea inherited from 1960s radicalism is that of “white privilege,” a protean concept invoked to explain wealth, political power, and even cognition.
by
Hari Kunzru
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New York Review of Books
on
September 3, 2020
Is Capitalism Racist?
A scholar depicts white supremacy as the economic engine of American history.
by
Nicholas Lemann
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The New Yorker
on
May 18, 2020
The Little Ice Age Is a History of Resilience and Surprises
The world's last climate crisis demonstrates that surviving is possible if bold economic and social change is embraced.
by
Dagomar Degroot
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Aeon
on
November 11, 2019
Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Narratives of Freedom
In Coates's debut novel, he sets out to recover the struggles for emancipation that have been lost to the past.
by
Elias Rodriques
via
The Nation
on
October 29, 2019
How Likely Is A New American Civil War?
Surprising lessons from Lebanon’s Conflict in the 1970s.
by
Emily Whalen
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Task & Purpose
on
October 18, 2018
The Last Temptation
How evangelicals became an anxious minority seeking political protection from a not traditionally religious president.
by
Michael Gerson
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The Atlantic
on
March 8, 2018
Ben Carson, Donald Trump, and the Misuse of American History
The eliding of the ugliness of America's racial history is neither novel nor particularly surprising.
by
Jelani Cobb
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The New Yorker
on
March 8, 2017
The American Beginning
The dark side of Crèvecoeur's "Letters from an American Farmer."
by
Alan Taylor
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The New Republic
on
July 19, 2013
Died on the 4th of July
Fisher Ames’s philosophy can be summed up as follows: the “power of the people, if uncontroverted, is licentious and mobbish.”
by
Stephen B. Tippins
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The American Conservative
on
July 3, 2012
How Long Will We Care?
A music critic assesses Elvis Presley's influence on popular culture.
by
Lester Bangs
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Village Voice
on
August 29, 1977
‘I Can’t Accept Western Values Because They Don’t Accept Me’
Revolution, the civil rights movement, and African-American identity.
by
James Baldwin
,
Robert Penn Warren
via
Literary Hub
on
April 27, 1964
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