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Melinda Cooper

Bylines

Extravagances of Neoliberalism

On how the fringe ideas of a set of American neoliberals became a new and pervasive way of life.

by Melinda Cooper, Benjamin Kunkel via The Baffler on May 13, 2024
The Anti-Abortion Movement and the Ghost of Margaret Sanger

Religious conservatives see “anti-eugenic” laws as the most promising path to establish a federal ban on abortion.

by Melinda Cooper via Dissent on January 17, 2023
Family Capitalism and the Small Business Insurrection

The increasingly militant right supports the private, unincorporated, and family-based versus the corporate, publicly traded, and shareholder-owned.

by Melinda Cooper via Dissent on January 13, 2022
All in the Family Debt

How neoliberals and conservatives came together to undo the welfare state.

by Melinda Cooper via Boston Review on May 31, 2017

Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance

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A view of Wall Street and Federal Hall in the Financial District in New York City.

In the 1970s, the Left Put a Good Crisis to Waste

In "Counterrevolution," Melinda Cooper reads the 1970s economic crisis as an elite revolt rather than proof of the New Deal order’s unsustainability.

by Scott Aquanno, Stephen Maher via Jacobin on October 24, 2024

Book cover of Counterrevolution by Melinda Cooper.

A Tax Haven in a Heartless World: On Melinda Cooper’s “Counterrevolution”

Why should taxpayers fund schools that violate their own values, the Moms for Liberty wonder? A new book traces how this kind of thinking about public spending came to be.

by Sarah Brouillette via Los Angeles Review of Books on April 15, 2024

Chalkboard in a classroom.

What Are You Going to Do With That?

The future of college in the asset economy.

by Erik Baker via Harper's on July 23, 2024

The People, It Depends

What's the matter with left-populism? A review of Thomas Frank's "The People, No: A Brief History of Anti-Populism."

by Erik Baker via n+1 on March 24, 2021

America’s Long War on Children and Families

Trump’s family separation policy belongs to a much longer history of U.S. government forces taking children from families that don't match the American ideal.

by Paul M. Renfro via Boston Review on June 22, 2020

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