
Hope for Labor at the End of History
Amid the bleak political landscape of Clinton’s America, a 1996 summit of union organizers and intellectuals proved a surprise success. It also showed the weakness of left ideas without a strong labor movement.
Amid the bleak political landscape of Clinton’s America, a 1996 summit of union organizers and intellectuals proved a surprise success. It also showed the weakness of left ideas without a strong labor movement.
Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America by Rick Perlstein Scribner, 2008, 748 pp., $37.50 For decades, liberal scholars and journalists have been trying to figure out how it came to this. How did we end …