Lily Geismer

Lily Geismer is Professor of History at Claremont McKenna College. Her latest book, coedited with Brent Cebul, is Mastery and Drift: Professional-Class Liberals Since the 1960s.

Moderation was always deeply flawed.

Lily Geismer responds in a forum on “How Not to Defeat Authoritarianism.”

  • Lily Geismer

We know how to win. The main obstacle is the Democratic Party.

Lily Geismer responds to Lisa L. Miller’s “The Dead End of Checks and Balances.”

  • Lily Geismer

The Limits of Professional-Class Liberalism

How professionals remade the Democratic Party, narrowing its political vision.

  • Simon Torracinta
  • Brent Cebul
  • Lily Geismer
  • Dylan Gottlieb
  • Nicole Hemmer
  • Danielle Wiggins

What About Rural America?

The perils of the Democrats’ new coalition.

  • Lily Geismer
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