Michael Kazin is one of the best political historians working today. Check out our interview with him in Episode 41 of The Way of Improvement Leads Home Podcast. We discussed his work on populism. Back in 2021, Current published his...
Here is Maggie Astor at The New York Times: Cornel West, the progressive activist and professor, announced a presidential campaign on Monday with the People’s Party, a third party led by a former campaign staff member for Senator Bernie Sanders....
The Georgetown historian weighs-in at Dissent. Here is a taste of his piece, “Reject the Left-Right Alliance Against Ukraine“: At critical times, foreign wars have tested the moral convictions of American leftists and affected the fate of their movement for...
Over at Literary Hub, Georgetown historian Michael Kazin offers a “Brief History of American Socialism.” Here is a taste: “America will never be a socialist country,” declared Donald Trump in his 2019 State of the Union Address, given to a...
Over Labor Day weekend I reread Michael Kazin‘s 1998 book The Populist Persuasion: An American History and was once again reminded that throughout the course of our nation’s history populism has appeared on both the right and the left. (For...
Some of you may remember Chris Shannon’s recent Current feature, “Analogies of Abortion.” The piece criticized a New York Times op-ed by Georgetown University historian Michael Kazin. (Some of you will recall Kazin’s Current review of Anthea Butler’s White Evangelical...
The Georgetown University historian of the American Left compares the backlash to Dobbs vs. Jackson with the backlash against prohibition in the 1920s. Here is a taste of his piece at The New York Times: Once the dry movement got...
The Georgetown University historian is the author of the recently released What It Took To Win: A History of the Democratic Party. The guys at “Know Your Enemy” podcast talk with Kazin about the book: Listen here....
Here is a taste of Dionne’s column on the hero of the New Left who died this past weekend at the age of 79: …Gitlin was president of SDS from 1963 to 1964 and wrote the best account of the...
Michael Kazin is a history professor at Georgetown and former editor of Dissent. Some of you may recall his Current review of Anthea Butler’s White Evangelical Racism. Over at The Nation, Kazin reviews radio and Fox News personality Mark Levin’s...
Georgetown University historian and Current contributor Michael Kazin compares Biden to LBJ. Here is a taste of his piece at The New York Times: For days now, the news media has likened the chaotic end of our misadventure in Afghanistan, and the...
C-SPAN asked scholars to rank the presidents in terms of public persuasion, crisis leadership, economic management, moral authority, international relations, administrative skills, relations with Congress, vision, the pursuit of justice, and “performance within the context of the times.” The list...
Historian Julian Zelizer gathered an esteemed group of American historians at Princeton to assess the Trump presidency. Here is a taste of Jennifer Schuessler’s piece at The New York Times: From the day he took office, Donald J. Trump had...
How does the Democratic Party move forward in the post-Trump era? Georgetown University historian Michael Kazin, who is writing a new history of the Democrats, offers some thoughts in a recent piece at The New Republic. Here is a taste:...
Many of you are familiar with Georgetown University historian (and recently retired editor of Dissent) Michael Kazin‘s negative 2004 review of Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States. Kazin brings a similar historical sensibility to his review of...
