The Beauty of Baseball
Michael Kazin: The Beauty of Baseball
Michael Kazin: The Beauty of Baseball
The Port Huron Statement of Students for a Democratic Society is the most ambitious, the most specific, and the most eloquent manifesto in the history of the American Left.
Until the emergence of Occupy Wall Street, a disturbing absence marked American political life. The nation’s economic miseries continued, with unemployment high and home sales stagnant or dropping. The gap between the wealthiest Americans and their fellow citizens yawned wider …
Michael Kazin: Business and Government – A Long Affair
Michael Kazin: The Need for Big Ideas
Michael Kazin: The Christian Right?s Losing Battle
It should be common sense—but often is not—that nearly every act of production, construction, service, transmission, transportation, and health care in America is performed by working men and women, most of whom earn less money and respect than they deserve. …
Michael Kazin: Why a Gingrich-Obama Matchup Would Be Good for the Country
Michael Kazin: When the Moralists Win
We are living in an age of austerity and, together with most Europeans and the Japanese, will probably have to endure it for some time to come. The truly wretched “compromise” on the debt limit that Barack Obama agreed to …
Michael Kazin: Republicans Look to the States
Michael Kazin: The Right Since 9/11
Michael Kazin: Newt Gingrich’s Bad History
Michael Kazin: Obama?s Shortsighted View of U.S. Politics
Michael Kazin: The Indignados of Spain