March

Podcast: Racial Segregation in American Cities

On this episode we play the second part of our interview with historian and author Luther Adams on his new book, Way Up North in Louisville: African American Migration in the Urban South, 1930-1970.

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Podcast: African Americans and Migration in the South, an Interview with Luther Adams

We play the first part of our interview with historian and author Luther Adams about his new book, Way Up North in Louisville.

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Socialism in American History, an Interview with John Nichols

We live in an era where so much of our economic life, whether we like it or not, exists in this netherworld of transfers of stock ownership, bond ownership, currencies, and the interest on different revenue-generating instruments, and yet we tax so little of that and that’s an absurdity.

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Book Review: Social Ethics in the Making

In the dog-eat-dog late 19th century world of the Gilded Age, when Horatio Alger stories touted rags to riches, the yawning gap between rich and poor was as extreme as it is today.