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Feminism Today 9:15 am
The Two Women’s Movements
Feminism has been on the march since the 1970s, but so has the conservative backlash.
Kim Phillips-Fein
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The Right May 4, 2016
The Roots of American Conservatism
Why do the politics of free markets and cultural reaction keep returning like some Republican Freddy Krueger?
Kim Phillips-Fein
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Election 2016 February 24, 2016
Who Is the Real Progressive: Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders?
Four historians consider how the Democratic candidates fit within the history of the Progressive tradition.
Kim Phillips-Fein, Charles Postel, Robert Greene II and Michael Kazin
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Budgets October 16, 2013
Lessons From the Great Default Crisis of 1975
Thirty-eight years ago, New York City almost went bankrupt. Then as now, conservatives took a hardline stance.
Kim Phillips-Fein
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Economic Policy July 16, 2013
Mountain Views
Angus Burgin revisits Friedrich Hayek’s Mont Pelerin Society in The Great Persuasion.
Kim Phillips-Fein
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Cities April 16, 2013
The Legacy of the 1970s Fiscal Crisis
Nearly forty years after Ford told New York to drop dead, the city is still here—but forever changed.
Kim Phillips-Fein
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Corporations July 24, 2012
Subterranean Blues: On ExxonMobil
Moral indignation is no longer enough to combat the power of Big Oil.
Kim Phillips-Fein
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Culture May 11, 2011
Countervailing Powers: On John Kenneth Galbraith
John Kenneth Galbraith was a satirist of economics as much as a practitioner of it.
Kim Phillips-Fein
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October 14, 2009
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Politics September 10, 2009
Right On
Traditionalists are at war with free-marketers, and the far right's resentment is deepening. Is conservatism dead?
Kim Phillips-Fein