A conversation with the historian Darrin McMahon about his new book Equality: The History of an Elusive Idea and the strange and contradicting development of the liberal version of egalitarianism. Ad ...
In 2013, Barack Obama was flush with optimism as he stepped up to the podium to deliver his second inaugural address. He knew that America had a long way to go, but he believed that the country also ...
A series of new books unearth the long history of egalitarian politics. They also ask whether equality, instead of another political ideal, should be at the center of our politics? In the chilling ...