U.S. Economic Political History
In a recent piece for National Review ( Why I Will Never Be A Free Trader ) writer Michael Brendan Dougherty builds the core of his argument around the observation that Free trade is not a principle; it is an expedient a line he attributes to an 1843 speech by British Tory politician Benjamin Disraeli. There s a [ ] The post Disraeli Left Me Tariffs? appeared first on Phillip W. Magness .
If you ve been following U.S. politics and specifically the U.S. conservative movement, there s a good chance you ve encountered something known as Postliberalism in the last few years. Postliberalism is a movement in New Right political theory that appeared over the last 20 years, and has accelerated since the mid 2010s. It purports to offer a [ ] The post A few thoughts on Postliberalism…
I have to admit that I expected some pushback against the thesis of my paper (co-authored with Michael Makovi) The Mainstreaming of Marx: Measuring the Effect of the Russian Revolution on Karl Marx’s Influence from Marxists and other followers of the socialist philosopher. In this paper, we use Google Ngram as well as a separate [ ] The post How Eric Hobsbawm anticipated Synthetic Marx appeared…
Last week, a preprint of my new article on Karl Marx s citation patterns (coauthored with Michael Makovi) was posted on the Journal of Political Economy website. Our article investigates historical trends in how often Karl Marx s name is mentioned in print materials such as books. The intriguing question is the year 1917 the year [ ] The post John Ganz s Weberian sleight of hand appeared first on…
According to recent reports, both Princeton and Cornell Universities have opted not to take any action over multiple instances of plagiarism by historian Kevin M. Kruse. Notably, neither university disputes that plagiarism occurs in their publicly released statements. Instead, both have issued equivocal statements signifying that they consider Kruse s copying of texts to have been [ ] The post…
It’s been just over two weeks since I first called attention to signs of possible plagiarism in the works Kevin M. Kruse, a history professor and left-wing political commentator for MSNBC. Princeton University, where Kruse teaches, is reportedly conducting an investigation into the matter. Kruse’s Twitter feed, which normally contains a heavy stream of political [ ] The post The Bad-Faith…
So it turns out that my earlier suspicions about possible academic integrity issues in Kevin M. Kruse s scholarship were warranted. After finding hints of borrowed textual structures and word phrasing in a 2015 book by the Princeton historian, I decided to take a closer look at some of his other work. I turned to his [ ] The post When activist historians redefine plagiarism to protect their own…
Historian Kevin M. Kruse is perhaps best known as a contributor to the New York Times s controversial 1619 Project, where he wrote an essay linking traffic congestion to the history of segregation. Yet it s another connection to the New York Times that may put the Princeton University professor under the microscope specifically his use [ ] The post Did Kevin Kruse plagiarize an article from the…
In their recent essay for the Chronicle of Higher Education, “Reactionary Propaganda Rides Again,” scholars Naomi Oreskes and Charlie Tyson take issue with my own analysis of faculty political ideology in the Chronicle (“Tenured Radicals are Real,” September 24, 2020). Unfortunately, most of their essay resorts to conspiratorial ad hominem attacks on me personally over [ ] The post Oreskes Tyson…
The Economic Historian blog has a fascinating discussion at the moment on the New History of Capitalism (NHC) school of historiography, and its attempts to grapple with the economic dimensions of slavery. I ve been extremely critical of the NHC literature on account of its anti-capitalist ideological skew and its misuse of historical evidence, most recently [ ] The post Was Abolitionism a…