As the notorious commitment-phobe Charles Dickens once said, it was the best of times, it was the worst […]
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History does not end and it does not stop. Its dark waters flow and can break their banks and drown us in the flood.
Tropics of Meta may be a good, clean, family blog about historiography, but we do occasionally stray into […]
No real best-of this week. Instead, we at Tropics of Meta are taking stock of the extraordinary and […]
The student: Since the beginning of time, man has reached for greater heights. The talking head: The situation […]
Neoliberalism’s “casino capitalism” has stacked the political deck in favor of powerful private interests. At every step, however, protesters and other activists have opposed neoliberal logic and demanded the rights of people over the right to profits.
In this excerpt from his book Blue-Collar Conservatism: Frank Rizzo’s Philadelphia and Populist Politics (University of Pennsylvania Press, […]
The semester comes in, the semester goes out… you can’t explain it. You can’t explain it, folks. Except […]