Lawrence Glickman

Lawrence B. Glickman is a history professor at Cornell University. He is the author, most recently, of Free Enterprise: An American History.

America’s Most Destructive Habit
Each time political minorities advocate for and achieve greater equality, conservatives rebel, trying to force a reinstatement of the status quo.
John S. Huntington and Lawrence Glickman
November 7, 2021
Getty ; The Atlantic
3 Tropes of White Victimhood
Leading conservative pundits today are pounding themes that were popular among opponents of Reconstruction.
Lawrence Glickman
July 20, 2021
Alamy; The Atlantic
How White Backlash Controls American Progress
Backlash dynamics are one of the defining patterns of the country’s history.
Lawrence Glickman
May 21, 2020
Bill Hudson / AP
The Conservative Campaign Against Safety
How did we get to the point where ministers, the president, many Republican politicians, and a variety of media outlets are calling for people to risk death to save the economy?
Lawrence Glickman
March 30, 2020
CHANDAN KHANNA / AFP / Getty

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