Jackson Lears, a visiting fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, is a professor of history at Rutgers University and the editor of Raritan. He is the author of Rebirth of a Nation: The Making of Modern America, 1877–1920, among other books.
Statistics in the Progressive Era were more than mere signs of a managerial government’s early efforts to sort and categorize its citizens.
What many defenders of liberal democracy fail to realize is that they are no longer defending either liberalism or democracy.
The self-made man and the confidence man have existed in dialectical tension down to the present.
The attempt to turn universities into businesses challenges the conservative understanding of the humanities.