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SOURCE: Teen Vogue
3/14/2023
Neoliberalism: Why is the Market Involved in Your Hallway Hangout?
by John Patrick Leary
A guide for teens and others to start thinking about how the big political and economic systems we live under shape our lives. Hint: it's about the conflicts between capitalism and democracy.
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SOURCE: Los Angeles Review of Books
1/21/2023
Julia Schleck on The Function of the University Today
by Michael Meranze
Julia Schleck's work ties the idea of academic freedom to the social role of the university and its internal labor practices, which threatens scholars with attacks from inside and outside the campus.
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SOURCE: The Nation
12/13/2022
How the "Third Way" Made Neoliberal Politics Seem Inevitable
by Lily Geismer
The Third Way never presented a coherent case for what it stood for or how it might balance the roles of the market and the state. But it led to a generational reworking of the role if government and a sidelining of mass political movements.
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SOURCE: The New Republic
10/25/2022
God Save Us From the Economists
by Timothy Noah
Actress Jayne Mansfield was killed in a 1967 traffic accident; a truck trailer safety regulation review prompted in part by her highly public demise was finally implemented in 1996, after nearly 9,000 people were killed in similar crashes. Why? Blame a bipartisan faith in economists as policymakers.
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SOURCE: New York Review of Books
10/15/2022
The Crossroads: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on the Inadequacy of Politics as Usual
"Today, we have lived through two terms of a Black presidency and the highest concentration of Black elected officials in Congress and beyond in American history. So the question of whether we can vote our way into liberation is no longer an abstraction."
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SOURCE: New York Times
10/7/2022
Obama's Lost Manuscript is Also a Lost Path to a Left Populism
by Timothy Shenk
Substantive politics? Broad-based material benefits for the mass of Americans? Rejecting the rule of credentialed technocrats? Mobilizing voters and legislating instead of relying on the courts to protect basic rights? An unpublished 1990s manuscript co-authored by Barack Obama may leave readers wondering what happened to those ideas.
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SOURCE: The Baffler
10/4/2022
Review Essay: How the Biggest Party Started Thinking Small
Books by Michael Kazin and Lily Geismer trace the rise and fall of the Democratic Party's reign as a party of big ideas and big initiatives.
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9/11/2022
Inflation Opened the Door to American Neoliberalism
by Thom Hartmann
An inflationary crisis proved to be the justification for reworking the American political economy in the direction of the vast inequality we observe today.
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SOURCE: The Baffler
8/18/2022
Ailing Empires: The Rhetoric of Decline in Britain and the US
by Jed Esty
If the US is following behind Great Britain in experiencing the strains of a collapsing empire, can Americans, their leaders, and their thinkers learn any lessons from the comparison and make a post-imperial society that is more humane and less nasty?
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SOURCE: The Nation
8/22/2022
Review: Does Gary Gerstle Get to the Meaning of Neoliberalism?
by Steven Hahn
Reviewer Steven Hahn says that Gerstle's new book effectively bridges the economic transformation of global capitalism with studies of the fracturing of the Democratic New Deal political coalition.
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SOURCE: New York Review of Books
7/21/2022
Review: Gerstle on Free Markets and Besieged Citizens
by Robert Kuttner
Gary Gerstle's new history aims to define the political order that began under Jimmy Carter and resulted in the overturning of New Deal liberalism for the empty promises of a market society, with the power of the state insulating capitalism from democracy.
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SOURCE: The New Republic
6/27/2022
1989-2001: America's "Lost Weekend" When the Nation Blew its Shot at Peace and Prosperity
How did the United States go from victory in the Cold War and an economic boom to the brink of collapse? A decade of political rhetoric denying any useful role for government was a factor.
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SOURCE: The New Republic
6/15/2022
Review: Gary Gerstle Argues the Pandemic Killed the Neoliberal Era (But Democrats Don't Know It Yet)
by Ed Burmila
"Gerstle makes an all but indisputable case that neoliberalism has had its lamentable time in the sun. The question that remains is: What comes next? As things stand at present, you’re probably not going to like it."
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SOURCE: N + 1
6/1/2022
Review Essay: Who Did Neoliberalism?
by Erik Baker
New books wrestle with the rise and collapse of the 1960s New Left and the gulf between its aspirations and achievements, and assess whether 1960s radical intellectuals are responsible for present-day neoliberalism.
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SOURCE: The New Republic
5/16/2022
Lily Geismer on the Dismal Legacy of the "New Democrats"
A reviewer calls a new book on the 1990s a sobering look at the effects of tying social policy to the market.
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SOURCE: The Nation
4/20/2022
Lily Geismer: The Clinton Legacy is Well-Intentioned Failure
"I wanted to challenge the common view that the story of US politics after 1968 is solely about the rise of the right, and that the Democrats adopted the policies that they did as a way of playing electoral defense."
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SOURCE: The Nation
4/13/2022
Gary Gerstle: Is the Neoliberal Era Over?
"Will new political movements emerge with the strength to compel a serious redistribution of wealth away from elites and toward the masses without reproducing the tyranny that became so intrinsic to communism? This is one of the key questions of our time."
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SOURCE: National History Center and Woodrow Wilson Center
4/11/2022
TODAY: The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era
Today, Gary Gerstle discusses the fall of the neoliberal political order in a discussion with Lizabeth Cohen and Kristina Spohr as part of the National History Center's Washington History Seminar.
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4/3/2022
The Lost Opportunity to Set Post-Soviet Russia on a Stable Course
by Robert Brent Toplin
The transition from communism was always going to be difficult for Russia and other post-Soviet states. But American politicians and advisors must share blame for the rise of oligarchy and Putinism as responses to economic instability.
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SOURCE: Boston Review
3/4/2022
Ukraine Beyond the Post-Soviet Frame
by Ileana Nachescu
Framing the Russian invasion of Ukraine as an extension of grievances that festered during the Soviet era ignores the drastic changes wrought in Eastern Europe by neoliberal capitalism, racism, sexism, migration and patriarchal religion, and sustains an impoverished view of what peace and freedom in Ukraine can be.
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