neoliberalism

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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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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  1/25/2022
  

  Abortion isn't a "Choice" without Racial Justice

  by Sara Matthiesen

  The recent failure of the broad social spending initiatives of Build Back Better and the impending judicial overthrow of Roe are connected, and signal the need for a movement for reproductive freedom that goes beyond "choice" to address systemic inequalities. 

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• SOURCE: The Metropole
  1/24/2022
  

  The Role of Liberals in the Neoliberal Turn

  by Claire Dunning

  Benjamin Holtzman's new book asks readers to reconsider the role of local community organizations and their liberal allies in creating the turn to market processes and entrepreneurial social programs associated with neoliberal urban policy. 

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• SOURCE: Jacobin
  1/11/2022
  

  France's Socialists Adopted Neoliberalism and Punched their Tickets to Irrelevance

  "What was the history that brought the French left to its current state of crisis, and does it show what other countries are going to experience in the future?"

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  1/6/2022
  

  The Deep Structure of Political Crisis

  by Ruth Berins Collier and Jake Grumbach

  The economic model of post-industrial America has produced the kinds of organization and disorganization, and mobilization and demobilization, that have led to profoundly antidemocratic politics. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  12/9/2021
  

  Why does Biden's Term Register as a Disappointment? We've Misread the Political Regime Cycle

  by Corey Robin

  The author was among those who thought Joe Biden might seize a "reconstructive moment" to push aside the social austerity politics of the Reagan Revolution. The problem hasn't been Biden's will, but the disproportionate obstructive power conservatives still hold. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  9/27/2021
  

  Don't Forget that "School Choice" Originated in Massive Resistance to Desegregation

  by Nancy MacLean

  "Rather than giving families more school options, school choice became a tool intended to give most families far fewer in the end."

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• SOURCE: Asia Sentinel
  9/7/2021
  

  It isn't Just the Taliban that Ousted Americans from Asia: The End of Yale-NUS

  by Jim Sleeper

  "A deeper reason for Singapore’s expulsion of Yale is the same one that’s been given to justify America’s expulsion from Afghanistan: For all its glitter and wealth-generating capacity, American liberal capitalism has been undermining itself with manic speed, along with the civic-republican institutions, beliefs, and liberal education that have given the system its legitimacy."

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  8/2/2021
  

  The Liberals Who Weakened Trust in Government

  by Kim Phillips-Fein

  Historian Kim Phillips-Fein writes that Paul Sabin's new book "Public Citizens" adds to understanding of the rise of conservatism and the power of attacks on "big government" by focusing on the role of liberal public interest groups in exposing the capture of the liberal regulatory state by big business interests. 

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• SOURCE: Phenomenal World
  7/12/2021
  

  Long Crises: Kim Phillips-Fein Interviews Benjamin Holtzman

  While New York's mayoral campaign has invoked the "bad old days" of the 1970s, the city today is still experiencing the political-economic crisis that erupted 50 years ago. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  7/2/2021
  

  The Strange, Sad Death of America’s Political Imagination

  by Daniel Immerwahr

  What happened to big-thinking utopianism as a response to national problems? 

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  6/28/2021
  

  The Age of Neoliberalism is Ending in America. What will Replace It?

  by Gary Gerstle

  It will be difficult for the Biden administration to revive a (Green) New Deal Order, but making progress may be key to stopping the nation's slide toward authoritarian and racist forms of populism.