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Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America

The intersection of history and economics can be dangerous territory indeed, as manifest in the reception of historian Nancy MacLean’s recent bio...Read More

HOPE REVIEW ESSAYS

Ayn Rand’s Counter-Revolution

The crowds jostling below, the soldiers marching down icy boulevards, the roar of a people possessed: All this a young Ayn Rand witnessed from her family’s apartment...Read More

THE NEW YORK TIMES

O Libertarian, Where Is Thy Sting?

Richard Hofstadter famously observed that “third parties are like bees: once they have stung, they die.” By this standard, the Libertarian Party seems to have been born without a stinger….. Read More

JOURNAL OF POLICY HISTORY

In Retrospect: George Nash’s The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945

It is a rare work of history that remains the authoritative treatment of its subject nearly thirty years after... Read More

REVIEWS IN AMERICAN HISTORY

Godless Capitalism: Ayn Rand and the Conservative Movement

Beyond the clash of two proud and ambitious personalities, the first Ayn Rand– William F. Buckley encounter encapsulates many of the dynamics of right-wing thought in the twentieth century... Read More

MODERN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY

Liberalism and the Conservative Imagination

Liberals could appreciate conservatism as an intriguing yet utterly harmless mood because in the early 1950s, conservatism had yet to harden into a clearly defined ideology.... Read More

LIBERALISM FOR A NEW CENTURY

The ‘Root of All Good’: Ayn Rand’s Meaning of Money

When he sent out the money speech under his firm’s imprimatur, Greenspan was a rising young economic forecaster and a regular at Rand’s Saturday night salons in New York City.. Read More

JOURNAL OF CULTURAL ECONOMY

The Three “Furies” of Libertarianism: Rose Wilder Lane, Isabel Paterson, and Ayn Rand

How should historians make sense of the striking presence of three women, bound by similar life experiences and tenuous bonds of friendship, at the core of modern antistatism?... Read More

JOURNAL OF AMERICAN HISTORY