Michael Kazin

Michael Kazin is a Professor of History at Georgetown and an Editor Emeritus of Dissent. His most recent book is What It Took to Win: A History of the Democratic Party. (June 2025)

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Bridging the Gap

Bridging the Gap

Nick Witham’s Popularizing the Past portrays five American historians who published popular books that sacrificed neither intellectual depth nor political bite.

Popularizing the Past: Historians, Publishers, and Readers in Postwar America

by Nick Witham

June 26, 2025 issue

Deft Enough?

July 22, 2021 issue

The Enduring Promise of Moral Capitalism

The Enduring Promise of Moral Capitalism

“To put political muscle and government funding behind the Constitution’s vow ‘to promote the general Welfare’ has been and remains the best way to unify Democrats and win.”

May 15, 2021

Ending the Kennedy Romance

Ending the Kennedy Romance

The first volume of Frederik Logevall’s biography of JFK reveals the scope of his ambition and the weakness of his political commitments.

JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917–1956

by Fredrik Logevall

May 27, 2021 issue

Letter

Jim Altschul

Deft Enough?

July 22, 2021 issue

‘The Left vs. the Liberals’

September 27, 2012 issue

Repression in Cuba

December 4, 2003 issue

Hope for Labor

February 1, 1996 issue

Sticking It Out

Sticking It Out

The Long-Distance Runner: An Autobiography

by Michael Harrington

March 16, 1989 issue

‘Roll, Jordan, Roll’

November 24, 1988 issue

The Historian as Populist

Power and Culture: Essays on the American Working Class

by Herbert G. Gutman, edited by Ira Berlin

May 12, 1988 issue

Letter

John Womack Jr.

‘Roll, Jordan, Roll’

November 24, 1988 issue

LA’s Vital Fluid

December 16, 1982 issue

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