Neo-Aristocrats, Social Darwinists, Tech Utopians, and the Long Fight Against Equality with Kim Phillips-Fein

An intellectual history of inequality in the US.

References and suggested readings:

• Kim Phillips-Fein. 2026. Country of Lords: Neo-Aristocrats, Social Darwinists, Tech Utopians, and the Long Fight Against Equality in America. W. W. Norton.
• Kim Phillips-Fein. 2018. Fear City: New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics. Picador.
• Kim Phillips-Fein. 2010. Invisible Hands: The Businessmen's Crusade Against the New Deal. W. W. Norton.
• Corey Robin. 2018. The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Endmund Burke to Donald Trump, 2nd ed. Oxford University Press. Open access PDF. 
• Richard Herrnstein. 1971.  “i.q.” The Atlantic.
• Pioneer Fund, the dark money trust that won't let race science die American Campus episode with John P. Jackson Jr.
• Victor S. Navasky. 2003. Naming Names. Hill and Wang.
• Thomas Mann. 1996. Magic Mountain. Vintage.
• Anna Veltfort. 2019. Goodbye, My Havanna: The Life and Times of a Gringa in Revolutionary Cuba. Redwood Press.
• Kim Phillips-Fein’s faculty page
• kimphillipsfein.com