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Posted inBooks, Magazine, November/December 2016
One for the Money
How Alan Greenspan’s disastrous reign at the Fed came to be.
Posted inBooks, Magazine, November/December 2016
The Revolution Will Be Analyzed
America changed in 1969, but our history isn’t quite complete.
Posted inBooks, Magazine, November/December 2016
What Drives Social Justice?
Author Mark Smith says religion lags behind culture. Maybe it is the other way around.
Posted inBooks, Magazine, November/December 2016
Pluribus et Unum
The history of American politics as a tug-of-war between our individualist and collectivist identities.
Posted inBooks, Magazine, November/December 2016
The Strongest Branch of Liberty
Louis Fisher reminds us that historically it has been Congress—dysfunction and all—that has most advanced our rights.
Posted inThe Grade
Boston Busing Book Picked By NYT EdWriter Gets Critiqued
The iconic book on school integration isn’t as widely praised as it once was.
Posted inBooks
Being Outnumbered Doesn’t Have to Mean Losing
Zachary Roth’s new book is a scathing indictment of Republican efforts to undermine democracy.
Posted inEconomy
Book Review: American Amnesia by Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson
Hacker and Pierson’s political argument has a lot in common with that of old-style liberals like J.K Galbraith and Charles Lindblom.
Posted inMay 2000
Political Booknotes: Chicago’s Cubs
I WAS A PEE-WEE BLEACHER bum-11 years old during the summer of 1969 when the Chicago Cubs broke my heart by blowing the pennant to the New York Mets. I grew up seven short blocks from Wrigley Field and on dozens of days each summer my mother would heed my pleas to pack me a […]
