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The Long Fight Against Equality in the United States / Kim Phillips-Fein

Sep 1
At the beginning, we were talking about the tension between the overt ideology of the country is “all men are created equal,” and then there’s this transgressive counter-tradition arguing against that. Today…increasingly there is this current that openly rejects these ideas and says, “well maybe monarchy would be better,” “you should govern the country the way you govern a corporation,” and that means venerating the founder and giving the founder the control to make the decisions that are really in everyone’s best interests.

Historian Kim Phillips-Fein returns to discuss her new book, Country of Lords: Neo-Aristocrats, Social Darwinists, Tech Utopians, and the Long Fight against Equality in America from Norton.

"Rotten History" from Renaldo Migaldi follows the interview.

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Guest

Kim Phillips-Fein

Kim Phillips-Fein is Robert Gardiner-Kenneth T. Jackson Professor of History at Columbia University. She is the author of Fear City, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and Invisible Hands. She lives in New York City.

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