The right’s long and all-too-unanswered war on liberal institutions claims a big one.
Rick Perlstein
Rick Perlstein is the author of a four-volume series on the history of America’s political and cultural divisions, and the rise of conservatism, from the 1950s to the election of Ronald Reagan. He lives in Chicago.
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You Are Entering the Infernal Triangle
Authoritarian Republicans, ineffectual Democrats, and a clueless media
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Solidarity Squandered
The September 11 attacks brought us together until we let them turn us against each other–and damn near everyone else.
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The 1960s, Refracted
While published decades ago, the works of writers like Stanley Crouch and Lisa Jones are still ferociously in the present.
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The Truths That Television Can Tell
Ron Howard’s new film, Frost/Nixon serves as a daring argument about the way TV can be most virtuous precisely when it acts most like TV.
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A Liberal Shock Doctrine
History teaches us that presidents have to move quickly to enact progressive reforms before the window of opportunity closes forever. It’s a lesson Barack Obama should take to heart.
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LOUISIANA REPRESENTS.
Some of you might have read about the Democrats’ success this past weekend in winning Louisiana’s formerly Republican 6th Congressional District. And what kind of district is the Fightin’ 6th? I just realized I mention it in passing in NIXONLAND because from 1943 to ’66 it was represented by a relative liberal named James H. […]
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“Then No One Would Be a Democrat Anymore”
In 1970, Richard Nixon, inspired by a spontaneous construction workers’ riot, settled on the political strategy that would win him the 1972 election by a landslide and dominate American politics to this day.
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A FORGOTTEN LIBERAL ARIA.
Doing my research for Nixonland, I was dismayed to learn to that two of the greatest Democratic speeches are nowhere to be found across the entire howling wilderness of the Internet. The first was delivered by Edmund Muskie on November 2, 1970. Richard Nixon was placing enormous stock for the Republicans in the 1970 congressional […]
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Look Back in Anger
Democrats have their majority in the House, and that’s cause for celebration. But as of this writing several House races are still listed as “too close to call.” The Senate has also changed hands — after the Virginia race narrowly escaped a recount, and Republicans came close to challenging the results in Montana and Missouri. […]