I thought it was only the corporate breed who cut to “the bottom line.” At any rate, Joel Rogers protests too much. The purpose of my comments on the New Party was not to bury what is clearly the wisest …
Seventy years ago, American elites knew how to enforce the two-party system. “In 1924,” Robert and Helen Lynd reported in their classic study, Middletown, “It was considered such ‘bad business’ to vote for the third party [the Progressives, who ran …
John Diggins has written an irritating but provocative book. First, the annoyances: He calls the work a history of the left in the United States but slights everyone but intellectuals. He says almost nothing about the labor movement, but devotes …
In Transit: The Transport Workers Union in New York City, 1933-1966 by Joshua B. Freeman Oxford University Press, 1989, 434 pp., $34.95 Working-Class Americanism: The Politics of Labor in a Textile City, 1914-1960 by Gary Gerstle Cambridge University Press, 345 …
