[teaser] The True and Only Heaven 5: The Populist Campaign Against "Improvement"

November 7th, 2021  |  15 mins 14 secs

american history, lasch, liberal, liberalism, politics, populism, progressive

Emmet and John dive into Lasch's overview of populism. They start to get glimpses of Lasch's commitments here. Touring classical conceptions of republicanism to people like Paine, Cobbett, and Brownson, Emmet and John track how they frustrate our contemporary interpretations of republicanism and liberalism can't or don't apply to them. Thinking with Lasch on historiography, they close the chapter discussing 19th-century artisans, populism, the New Deal, and the triumph of Taylorism.