ALL POSTS BY Harvey J. Kaye
- October 23, 2017A former Democratic operative writes in The New York Times that the party needs to drop FDR-style progressive politics and strengthen ties to Wall Street. He's dead wrong.
- June 30, 2017A historian reminds us that to truly “make America great again” we must enhance freedom, equality and democracy, not diminish them.
- April 30, 2017The Resistance needs to develop a memory of how past generations confronted reactionary threats to American democracy.
- February 27, 2017We have endured 40 years of creeping authoritarianism and it now appears that it may run right over democracy. We must resist and act in solidarity.
- January 12, 2017We are the heirs of Thomas Paine — let's remember his words and spirit of resistance against injustice at the dawn of the Trump era.
- November 15, 2016The election results may have been different had Democrats embraced America's past and its radical imperative of freedom, equality and democracy.
- June 20, 2016At this year’s Democratic convention, we’re not likely to hear a version of FDR’s 1936 acceptance speech, but even 80 years later we still can act on his revolutionary words.
- May 3, 2016We don't need to bridge the class divide — we need to end it.
- July 3, 2015Anyone who thinks social democracy is un-American doesn't know their history, writes historian Harvey J. Kaye.
- April 27, 2015President Obama and aspiring Democratic candidates need to “take a note” from FDR and set a progressive-populist political agenda for the upcoming campaigns.