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The Democrats' Failed Attempt to Solve Inequality
Lily Geismer
2022
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The Life of the Party
In his latest book, Michael Kazin argues that the Democrats have long sought to build a “moral capitalism.” Have they ever succeeded?
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Osita Nwanevu
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New York Review of Books
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August 29, 2023
Book Review
What the 1990s Did to America
The Law and Economics movement was one front in the decades-long advance of a revived free-market ideology that became the new American consensus.
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Henry M. J. Tonks
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Public Books
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May 17, 2023
Book Review
How the Democrats Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Free Market
In the 1990s, the New Democrats trusted corporations to do the right thing. The results were disastrous.
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Maia Silber
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Jacobin
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July 18, 2022
Book Review
The Disastrous Legacy of the New Democrats
Clintonites taught their party how to talk about helping people without actually doing it.
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Alex Pareene
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The New Republic
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May 16, 2022