Remnants of the New Deal Order
We can only understand the left’s present dilemmas by seeing them in light of the conflicted legacy of the New Deal.
Winter 2024
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What’s Left of Generation X
To be Gen X was to be disaffected from the consumer norms of the 1980s, but to be pessimistic about any chance for social transformation.
After the Sixties: Activism in Disenchanted Times 
Front Porch Politics: The Forgotten Heyday of American Activism in the 1970s and 1980s by Michael Stewart Foley Hill and Wang, 2013, 432 pp. Are the 1970s and 1980s really history? Over the past ten years, the era has undergone …
Decisive Decade: Re-evaluating the Seventies
Right Star Rising: A New Politics, 1974–1980 by Laura Kalman W.W. Norton, 2010, 473 pp. Pivotal Decade: How the United States Traded Factories for Finance in the Seventies by Judith Stein Yale University Press, 2010, 384 pp. Stayin’ Alive: The …
The Lonely Crowd
When David Riesman died this past May at the age of ninety- two, it was something of a surprise to learn that he had still been alive. For an earlier generation of sociologists, such obscurity would have seemed inconceivable. The …
The Meritocracy Trap
The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy by Nicholas Lemann Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1999, 368 pp. In respectable American opinion, perhaps the Constitution is the only institution treated with more obligatory reverence than the elite university. …
