America “…the South was essential to the development of global capitalism, and the rest of the country…was deeply implicated in Southern slavery” Author Drew Kaplan Date 11 January 2016 …the South was essential to the development of global capitalism, and the rest of...
America, Politics in America “…Prohibition was not a farce but a tragedy, and one that has made a substantial contribution to our current miseries” Author Drew Kaplan Date 7 January 2016 The Prohibition Party, as it was called, never became a major electoral force. But...
America, Politics in America “…American liberalism had a lot of the South in it” Author Drew Kaplan Date 25 November 2015 After slavery had ended and Reconstruction gave way to the Jim Crow system, the...
America, Races in America “Even if you believe the South is that separate from the rest of the country, you might still, if you look hard enough, detect tendrils of Southern influence that extend past the Mason-Dixon Line” Author Drew Kaplan Date 10 November 2015 Even if you believe the South is that separate from the rest of the...
America, Politics in America “The civil-rights revolution, too, can be thought of as a bargain, not simply a victory: the nation has become Southernized just as much as the South has become nationalized” Author Drew Kaplan Date 8 November 2015 The South was the country’s aberrant region—wayward, backward, benighted—but it was at last going...
Business “Once, work was a major source of friendships. … Now, work is a more transactional place” Author Drew Kaplan Date 18 September 2015 Once, work was a major source of friendships. We took our families to company...
America, Middle East, Syria “The rubble of Palmyra is a melancholy emblem of the rubble of American foreign policy” Author Drew Kaplan Date 10 September 2015 America is no longer moved by the moral imperative of support and rescue, even...
Politics in America “A better idea is to remove Andrew Jackson from the $20 bill and replace him with a distinguished woman from American history” Author Drew Kaplan Date 13 July 2015 Treasury is proposing to put a woman’s portrait alongside Hamilton’s on the $10 bill,...
America, Sex “This is a strange moment for sex in America. We’ve detached it from pregnancy, matrimony and, in some circles, romance” Author Drew Kaplan Date 13 July 2015 This is a strange moment for sex in America. We’ve detached it from pregnancy,...
America “When a law has a name like ‘Patriot’ or ‘Freedom’, it’s a sign that you should read the fine print” Author Drew Kaplan Date 10 July 2015 When a law has a name like “Patriot” or “Freedom,” it’s a sign that...