In Illiberal Reformers, Thomas Leonard reexamines the economic progressives whose ideas and reform agenda underwrote the Progressive Era dismantling of laissez-faire and the creation of the regulatory ...

In The Vital Center: The Politics of Freedom (1949), Arthur Schlesinger Jr. argued that a healthy democracy should balance progressive reforms with a commitment to individual freedom, human rights and ...

This paper joins recent scholarship suggesting that the Federal Arbitration Act of 1925 (FAA) emerged, at least in part, from a broader Progressive commitment to procedural reform. It departs, however ...

From the mid 1990s through the mid 2000s, Social Security reform was a conservative issue. Seemingly every Republican senator or representative had a plan to fix America’s underfunded retirement ...

Today, the idea that investors and lenders will seek to maximize their profits at all costs looks to most of us like an obvious and morally neutral—or even positive—aspect of the capitalist system.

Part I. Shaping the future: institutions and the law -- Playing progressively? Race, reform, and playful pedagogies in the origins of Philadelphia's Starr Garden Recreation Park, 1857-1904 / Deborah ...