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How the Democratic Party Lost the Working Class and how Populism Won the Republican Party
How the Decline of Labor Power and the Rise of the Knowledge Class Reshaped American Politics
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Kakistocracy Review: Social Media Does Not Explain Populism
A response to Tibor Rutar’s review of Richard Hanania’s Kakistocracy, arguing that social media cannot explain America’s recurring populist movements.
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The Union, The South, and the Reason for the Civil War
The Civil War did not begin as a moral abolitionist project. It grew out of a constitutional order that accommodated slavery, empowered the Southern slaveholding class, and ultimately turned the expansion of slavery into an existential conflict between the South and the Union.
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Why Populism Persists in America
Why does populism persist in America? This essay explains how union decline, party primaries, and candidate-centered politics reshaped both parties.