Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Bill Clinton gutted welfare and criminalized the poor, all while funneling more money into the carceral state.

The tendency to divorce racial disparities from economic inequality has a long liberal lineage.

In 1979, Carter's "malaise speech," shaped by sociological insights, sought national unity but clashed with Reagan's appeal to individualism.

The true economic legacy of the Reagan years is not tax cuts but union busting.