Michael Kazin teaches history at Georgetown University and coedits Dissent. Author of American Dreamers: How the Left Changed a Nation, he is currently a member of Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Study.
Why Institutions Drive Change
U.S. leftists have a particular weakness for romanticizing our past.
Michael Kazin
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