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Ten Years After the Crash, We’ve Learned Nothing

The great financial catastrophe of our times is still badly misunderstood, despite its grotesque consequences.
by Matt Taibbi via Rolling Stone on September 13, 2018

The Legacy of Black Reconstruction

Du Bois's "Black Reconstruction in America" showed that the black freedom struggle has always been one for radical democracy.
by Robert Greene II via Jacobin on August 27, 2018

The Gospel of Wealth

How did the “moral economy”—a concept that once encompassed a radical critique of capitalism—become the province of billionaires?
by Tehila Sasson via Dissent on August 22, 2018

Is Democracy Really Dying?

Why so many commentators share an overly grim view of America’s fate.
by Timothy Shenk via The New Republic on August 20, 2018

How Slavery Inspired Modern Business Management

The connections between the two systems of labor have been persistently neglected in mainstream business history.
by Caitlin C. Rosenthal via Boston Review on August 17, 2018

Have Elite US Colleges Lost Their Moral Purpose Altogether?

The ethical formation of citizens was once at the heart of the US elite college. Has this moral purpose gone altogether?
by Chad Wellmon via Aeon on August 16, 2018

Socialism and the Liberal Imagination

How do socialist demands become liberal common sense? The history of the New Deal offers a useful lesson.
by Mason B. Williams via Dissent on August 8, 2018

Ten Years After the Crash, We Are Still Living in the World It Brutally Remade

A seismic reading of the financial earthquake and its aftershocks, including those that still jolt us today.
by Christopher Caldwell, Malcolm Harris, Frank Rich, Timothy Shenk, Hanna Rosin, Rachael Combe, Sarah Leonard, Lauren Levy, Heather Havrilesky, Allison P. Davis via Intelligencer on August 5, 2018
New York City skyscrapers

Capital of the World

The radical and reactionary currents of New York at the turn of the 20th century.
by Kim Phillips-Fein via The Nation on August 2, 2018

Prisons and Class Warfare

A look at the evolution of the prison system in California.
by Clement Petitjean, Ruth Wilson Gilmore via Historical Materialism on July 30, 2018

Neoliberalism’s World Order

Neoliberalism set out not to demolish the state, but to create an international order strong enough to override democracy in the service of private property.
by Adam Tooze via Dissent on July 1, 2018

How the Disposable Straw Explains Modern Capitalism

A history of modern capitalism from the perspective of the straw. Seriously.
by Alexis C. Madrigal via The Atlantic on June 21, 2018

The Globalist

George Soros after the open society.
by Daniel Bessner via n+1 on June 18, 2018
Luis Posada Carriles

Death of a Cold War Supervillain

Anticommunist militant Luis Posada Carriles, who popped up throughout Latin America over the past half-century, won’t be missed.
by Hilary Goodfriend via Jacobin on June 11, 2018

Dystopian Bodies

In her newest book, Barbara Ehrenreich attacks the "epidemic" of wellness.
by Niko Maragos via Los Angeles Review of Books on June 7, 2018
Donald Trump holding up a bill he signed.
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Ceding Power to the Executive is Backfiring on Free-Trade Advocates

Liberal Democrats sidestepped Congress to bring free trade to the U.S. Now, Trump is able to do the same thing to destroy it.
by Jennifer Delton via Made By History on June 7, 2018

Can History Avoid Conspiracy?

Historians still lack a good way to define, discuss, and address historical actions that appear to be "conspiracies."
by Andy Seal via U.S. Intellectual History Blog on June 4, 2018

The Market Police

In neoliberalism, state power is needed to enforce market relations, but the site of that power must be hidden from politics.
by J. W. Mason via Boston Review on June 1, 2018
Political cartoon of special interests looming over the Senate.

Markets Aren't Natural, Government Have to Make Them Work

"Marketcraft" is one of the most important functions for any government.
by Steven K. Vogel via OUPblog on May 30, 2018
Frederick Douglass.

Frederick Douglass Is No Libertarian

It’s the 200th anniversary of Frederick Douglass’s birth, and some on the right have been crashing the party.
by Maurice S. Lee via Public Books on May 18, 2018

Unrevolutionary Bastardy

A review of a "The Low Road," a “mordantly anti-Hamiltonian” play that made its debut at New York's Public Theater this spring.
by Hannah Farber via The Junto on May 16, 2018

Can Consumer Groups Be Radical?

Historian Lawrence Glickman looked at the consumer movements of the 1930s to find out.
by Livia Gershon via JSTOR Daily on May 16, 2018
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The Great American Supermarket Lie

Instead of highlighting the glories of capitalism, supermarkets expose the inequalities it creates.
by Shane Hamilton via Made By History on April 27, 2018

Worlds Apart

How neoliberalism shapes the global economy and limits the power of democracies.
by Patrick Iber via The New Republic on April 23, 2018

From Progress to Poverty: America’s Long Gilded Age

The America that emerged out of the Civil War was meant to be a radically more equal place. What went wrong?
by Steven Hahn via The Nation on April 18, 2018

Martin Luther King Jr.: 50 Years Later

Activists today are taking up Dr. King’s mantle and reviving the Poor People’s Campaign.
by Michael K. Honey via The Nation on April 3, 2018

Factory Made

A history of modernity as a history of factories struggles to see beyond their walls.
by Padraic X. Scanlan via The New Inquiry on March 30, 2018

Banking Against (Black) Capitalism

A review of "The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap."
by Armond Towns, Carolyn Hardin via Los Angeles Review of Books on March 19, 2018

Agriculture Wars

On country music as a lens through which to trace the corporatization of American farming.
by Nick Murray via Viewpoint Magazine on March 12, 2018

For Tech Giants, a Cautionary Tale from 19th Century Railroads on Competition’s Limits

How much monopoly is too much monopoly?
by Richard White via The Conversation on March 6, 2018
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