The Mandate for Leadership, Then and Now The Mandate for Leadership, Then and Now
The Heritage Foundation’s 1980 manual aimed to roll back the state and unleash the free market. The 2025 vision is more extreme, and even more dangerous.
Jun 4, 2024 / Feature / Kim Phillips-Fein
Heather Cox Richardson and the Battle Over US History Heather Cox Richardson and the Battle Over US History
One interpretation presents the country as irredeemably tainted by its past. Another contends that the United States has also tended toward egalitarianism.
Jan 24, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Kim Phillips-Fein
What Does It Take to Win? What Does It Take to Win?
In his new history of American politics, Timothy Shenk examines the past and future of political realignments.
Jan 24, 2023 / Books & the Arts / Kim Phillips-Fein
Rise of the Far-Right Ultras Rise of the Far-Right Ultras
In Far-Right Vanguard, John Huntington shows just how porous the dividing line has been between the far right and mainstream conservatism.
Jan 11, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Kim Phillips-Fein
Joe From Scranton Joe From Scranton
Since Biden has taken office, he has signed a wide array of legislation into law. But once the more immediate emergencies have passed, will he have the will and desire to enact a s...
Apr 20, 2021 / Books & the Arts / Kim Phillips-Fein
How Did American Cities Become So Unequal? How Did American Cities Become So Unequal?
A new history of Ed Logue and his vision of urban renewal documents the broken promises of midcentury liberalism.
Oct 19, 2020 / Books & the Arts / Kim Phillips-Fein
Did the New Deal Need FDR? Did the New Deal Need FDR?
His political evolution points to a different locus of power than the one liberals tend to invoke when discussing the era’s history.
Nov 11, 2019 / Books & the Arts / Kim Phillips-Fein
The Bad History—and Bad Politics—of Alan Greenspan and Adrian Wooldridge’s ‘Capitalism in America’ The Bad History—and Bad Politics—of Alan Greenspan and Adrian Wooldridge’s ‘Capitalism in America’
Although the long sweep of American economic history is the ostensible subject of Capitalism in America, it tell us more about Alan Greenspan than about the history of capitalism.
Dec 12, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Kim Phillips-Fein
The Making of 20th-Century New York The Making of 20th-Century New York
The history of America's extreme metropolis captures a city caught between radicalism and reaction.
Aug 2, 2018 / Books & the Arts / Kim Phillips-Fein
Mont Pelerin in Virginia Mont Pelerin in Virginia
A new book on James Buchanan and public-choice theory explores the Southern roots of the free-market right.
Sep 7, 2017 / Books & the Arts / Kim Phillips-Fein