Andrew Hartman is a professor of history at Illinois State University. He is the author of A War for the Soul of America: A History of the Culture Wars, Education and the Cold War: The Battle for the American School, and Karl Marx in America.
For nearly two centuries, Karl Marx’s ideas have had a significant impact on US politics and intellectual life. In turn, Marx’s close study of the US informed the development of his ideas about capitalism and human freedom.
Marx is thought of as a purely European phenomenon. But his radical politics were indelibly shaped by his encounters with American life.
John Reed penned the definitive account of the October Revolution — and paid a heavy price for it.
Corporate Democrats have enabled Betsy DeVos’s privatization agenda for years. It’s time for them to choose which side they’re on.
Though often condemned to the fringes of American political life, the radical left has changed the course of US history.
In the anti-sixties backlash, neoconservatives were the most formidable intellectual opponents of social progress.
Dana Goldstein’s new history of American teaching is superb. But she’s much too easy on the “reformers” undermining public education.
Rick Perlstein is a master chronicler of American political absurdity. But explaining Reagan and the Right requires more than a catalog of the absurd.
The Hidden Curriculum of Liberal Do-Gooders
