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Kim Phillips-Fein

Atlas Weeps

Alan Greenspan and Adrian Wooldridge’s strange elegy for capitalism.

Philanthropists Will Not Save Us

All of Andrew Carnegie’s arguments were devoted to explaining why inequality ultimately was good: not only for its beneficiaries, but for poor people as well.
New York City skyscrapers

Capital of the World

The radical and reactionary currents of New York at the turn of the 20th century.

Company Men

The 200-year legal struggle that led to Citizens United and gave corporations the rights of people.
Multiple pieces of faces from different faces that come together to form one face

The 200-Year Legal Struggle That Led to Citizens United

How businesses campaigned to win constitutional rights and expand their political reach.

Mont Pelerin in Virginia

A new book on James Buchanan and public-choice theory explores the Southern roots of the free-market right.

The Two Women’s Movements

Feminism has been on the march since the 1970s, but so has the conservative backlash.
Ronald Reagan.

Conservatism: A State of the Field

Does recognizing the importance of conservatism in the twentieth century make us see the arc of American history in a new way?