Andrew Hartman teaches at Illinois State University and is the author, most recently, of Karl Marx in America.
The history of the Veiled Prophet Society, the St Louis secret society whose origins are in white supremacy and the suppression of worker organizing, is a window onto elite capitalist society and how it operates to protect its own interests.
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