Kim Phillips-Fein

Kim Phillips-Fein is an assistant professor at the Gallatin School of New York University. Her first book, Invisible Hands: The Making of the Conservative Movement From the New Deal to Reagan, is forthcoming from Norton in 2009.

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  • Hard Times

    March 20, 2008

    Amity Schlaes's history of the Great Depression is nothing less than an attempt to reclaim the 1930s for the free market.

2007

  • Deal Breakers

    November 21, 2007

    Two new books seek to galvanize progressives at a key political moment: Paul Krugman's The Conscience of a Liberal and Jonathan Chait's The Big Con.

2006

  • Letters

    April 6, 2006 Subscribe

  • Labor Pains

    February 16, 2006 Subscribe

    Robert Fitch's Solidarity for Sale exposes corruption as the cause of the current crisis in American labor.

2003

  • Texas, Inc.

    December 18, 2003 Subscribe

    Taking privatization to extremes, a new law ends the public sector as we knew it.

  • Victory at Yale?

    October 23, 2003

  • Yale Workers Win

    September 22, 2003

    How did the Yale workers win? Through militant picket lines and community support.

  • ...and the Poor Get Poorer

    July 17, 2003

    Collateral damage mounts in Bush's ideological war on the welfare state.

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