Founder Fatigue Founder Fatigue
Jack Rakove's Revolutionaries shows the founders as real people in motion instead of as Olympian gods.
Sep 30, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Robin Einhorn
Slacker Friday Slacker Friday
A tale of two attacked cities, or the differences between New York and Oklahoma City.
Sep 24, 2010 / Eric Alterman
History Helps Students Understand the Present, but not When History’s Cut From The School Curriculum History Helps Students Understand the Present, but not When History’s Cut From The School Curriculum
After taking an enlightening AP European History course, the author hopes that enrichment courses will survive the budget cuts to education.
Sep 20, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Demetrius Shahmehri
The Fifty Most Influential Progressives of the Twentieth Century The Fifty Most Influential Progressives of the Twentieth Century
The radical ideas of one generation become the common sense of the next. Here, Peter Dreier honors the people who moved progressive ideas in America from the marginal to the mainst...
Sep 16, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Peter Dreier
Unsettled: The Great Plains Unsettled: The Great Plains
The myths and misconceptions that distort the beauty and problems of the Plains.
Sep 15, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Charles Petersen
A Matter of Memory: On Ingo Schulze A Matter of Memory: On Ingo Schulze
The unvarnished fiction of One More Story explores Germany's papered-over past.
Sep 15, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Noah Isenberg
It’s Not the Party—It’s the Policies It’s Not the Party—It’s the Policies
Inequality has risen under Republicans and Democrats when they’ve embraced neoliberalism.
Sep 9, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Robert Pollin
It Was Heaven That They Burned It Was Heaven That They Burned
Who is Rigoberta Menchú?
Sep 8, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Greg Grandin
Ten Things the Past Can Teach Us Today Ten Things the Past Can Teach Us Today
"Live as if you are free" and other lessons of the past can help us build a progressive future.
Sep 2, 2010 / Books & the Arts / The Nation
Shelf Life Shelf Life
Ruth Harris's Dreyfus; Deborah Amos's Eclipse of the Sunnis.
Sep 2, 2010 / Books & the Arts / John Palattella