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An American History of the Socialist Idea

Harold Meyerson ▪ Spring 2022

If there’s a lesson to be derived from Gary Dorrien’s account of American socialism, it’s that the movement’s open participation in and with the broad democratic left benefits the socialist cause.

The Return of the Labor Question

Harold Meyerson ▪ Summer 2020

Absent a sufficient level of density to carry the swing states, unions are seeking to turn out not just their own members but sympathetic communities as well.

Beyond the Backlash

Harold Meyerson ▪ Spring 2019

How the 2016 election revealed the possibilities for new political identities.

The Great Moving Left Show

Harold Meyerson ▪ Summer 2018

Going left on economics plays not only in the liberal cities but also in many of the suburbs and farms. It’s the key to the Democrats’ electoral success moving forward.

The Democrats After Bernie

Harold Meyerson ▪ Summer 2016

The young activists who campaigned for Bernie Sanders are clearly the Democrats’ future. Do they have the power and the smarts to remake the Democratic Party?

The first time I heard Bogdan Denitch speak, he intimidated the hell out of me. That wasn’t, I hasten to explain, his intent. Far from it. The occasion was a national board meeting of the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee in …

Socialism in America

Harold Meyerson ▪ Winter 2016

If Bernie Sanders’s presidential run is to herald a new socialist movement, American leftists will have to overcome the combination of sectarianism, repression, and cooptation that doomed their predecessors.

Liberalism and Its Friends

Harold Meyerson ▪ Fall 1984

The Future of Liberalism by Alan Wolfe Alfred A. Knopf, 2009, 337 pp., $30.00 Visions of Progress: The Left-Liberal Tradition in America by Doug Rossinow University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007, 323 pp., $39.95 This should be the liberal hour. American …