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How Corporate America’s Obsession With Creativity Wrecked the World and Brought Us Elon Musk
Samuel W. Franklin’s latest book explains how we sold ourselves out to a fake virtue.
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Timothy Noah
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The New Republic
on
December 30, 2023
The Ghost of Reuther Past
The new UAW faces new challenges, but bears some distinct resemblances to the old.
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Harold Meyerson
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The American Prospect
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November 6, 2023
Profit, Power, and Purpose
The greatest challenge presented by modern corporations, small as well as large, involves purpose.
by
Michael Lind
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The Hedgehog Review
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November 1, 2023
How the UAW Broke Ford’s Stranglehold Over Black Detroit
The UAW's patient organizing cemented an alliance that would bear fruit for decades.
by
Paul Prescod
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Jacobin
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October 23, 2023
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For Hospitals, ‘Nonprofit’ Doesn't Mean ‘Charitable’
Medical debt has always been part of the history of nonprofit hospitals.
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Colleen M. Grogan
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Made By History
on
September 28, 2023
Eight and Skate
The age of optimism that lasted in the US from the 1940s to the 1970s looked, basically, like a car.
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Gabriel Winant
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New York Review of Books
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September 23, 2023
Shared Terrain
The neoliberal order has been exposed as fraudulent, inefficient, and inequitable. Yet it hardly lies in the dustbin of history.
by
Julia Ott
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Dissent
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September 19, 2023
Storyboards and Solidarity
The current Hollywood strikes have a precedent in Disney’s golden age, when the company was a hothouse of innovation and punishing expectation.
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E. Tammy Kim
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New York Review of Books
on
September 14, 2023
The American West’s Great Checkerboard Problem
As long as the U.S. system privileges private property, thousands of acres of public lands will remain off limits.
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Julia Sizek
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Zócalo Public Square
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August 8, 2023
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Why the Supreme Court Endorsed, Then Limited Affirmative Action
The Supreme Court considers new arguments challenging admissions practices that colleges use to select a diverse student body.
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Retro Report
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July 25, 2023
How Stanford Helped Capitalism Take Over the World
The ruthless logic driving our economy can be traced back to 19th-century Palo Alto.
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Sammy Feldblum
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The Chronicle of Higher Education
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July 20, 2023
The Untold History of Affirmative Action — For White People
To remain exclusively white after Brown v. Board of education, universities created scholarships to send qualified Black students to out-of-state HBCUs instead.
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Leslie T. Fenwick
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Valerie Strauss
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H. Patrick Swygert
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Washington Post
on
July 18, 2023
Three Maintenance Philosophies Fought for Control of the Auto Industry
At the very beginning of the auto industry, no less than three radically different design-for-maintenance philosophies fought it out.
by
Stewart Brand
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Books In Progress
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June 29, 2023
1922: Henry Ford on the Road to Riches
How Henry Ford managed the formation of the Ford Motor Company.
by
Henry Ford
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Lapham’s Quarterly
on
June 16, 2023
A Poisonous Legacy
Two new books reveal the story of Stanford University’s early years to be rife with corruption, autocracy, incompetence, white supremacy, and murder.
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Jessica Riskin
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New York Review of Books
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June 1, 2023
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First Republic and Our Undemocratic Bailout System
Regulators with no democratic accountability keep bailing out banks and big depositors — at the cost of billions to taxpayers.
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Leon Wansleben
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Made By History
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May 3, 2023
The Chicago Evangelist Who Held a Gospel Revival To Stop a Strike
Dwight L. Moody and the 1884 Haymarket Affair offer a look at what happens when Christians side with the wealthy instead of working class.
by
Matt Bernico
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Sojourners
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April 28, 2023
'Listen, World!': The Story of America's Most-Read Woman, Elsie Robinson
She risked everything to escape a life of poverty and become one of the nation's most read columnists, while advocating for the advancement of women.
by
Allison Gilbert
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Julia Scheeres
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Ms. Magazine
on
March 16, 2023
What the Oscars Represent: Meritocracy Without Merit
How the institution’s reactionary origins still leak into today’s film culture.
by
David Hajdu
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The Nation
on
March 8, 2023
Revisiting Restoration
Women’s economic labor was essential to state function.
by
Jonah Estess
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Commonplace
on
March 1, 2023
The Fight for the Sabbath
The partnership between rabbis and labor that delivered the two-day weekend.
by
Avi Garelick
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Jewish Currents
on
February 21, 2023
Blame Palo Alto
From Stanford to Silicon Valley, a small town in California spread tech’s gospel of data and control.
by
Scott Wasserman Stern
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The New Republic
on
February 6, 2023
Recognizing the Humanity of the Worker
Lillian Gilbreth, who died just over fifty years ago, saw that the worker could not be understood as a cog in the machine.
by
Richard Gunderman
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Law & Liberty
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January 12, 2023
William & Mary's Nottoway Quarter: The Political Economy of Institutional Slavery and Settler Colonialism
The school was funded by colonial taxation of tobacco grown by forced labor on colonized Indian lands.
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Danielle Moretti-Langholtz
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Buck Woodard
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Commonplace
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January 3, 2023
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The Freedman’s Bank Forum Obscures the Bank’s Real History
The bank’s history highlights flaws in using public-private partnerships to address racial inequality.
by
Justene Hill Edwards
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Made By History
on
October 27, 2022
How Disney Propaganda Shaped Life on the Home Front During WWII
A traveling exhibition traces how the animation studio mobilized to support the Allied war effort.
by
Marilyn Chase
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Smithsonian
on
July 11, 2022
The Atlantic Writers Project: Vannevar Bush
A contemporary Atlantic writer reflects on one of the voices from the magazine's archives who helped shape the publication—and the nation.
by
Ian Bogost
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The Atlantic
on
July 11, 2022
The Rise of Pentecostal Christianity
While the world’s fastest-growing religious faith offers material benefits and psychological uplift to many, it also pushes a reactionary political agenda.
by
Nathan J. Robinson
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Elle Hardy
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Current Affairs
on
April 8, 2022
Racism as Theory: A Historiography of White Supremacy Ideology
An overview of historical scholarship and socio-cultural developments in America to explain how racism became institutionalized against Black Americans.
by
Bala James Baptiste
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Black Perspectives
on
April 1, 2022
Contending Forces
Pauline Hopkins, Booker T. Washington, and the Fight for The Colored American Magazine.
by
Tarisai Ngangura
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The Believer
on
March 29, 2022
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