Phillip W. Magness

In a recent piece for National Review (“Why I Will Never Be A Free Trader“) writer Michael Brendan Dougherty builds the core of his argument around the observation that “Free trade is not a principle; it is an expedient” – a line he attributes to an 1843…

If you’ve been following U.S. politics and specifically the U.S. conservative movement, there’s a good chance you’ve encountered something known as “Postliberalism” in the last few years.

I have to admit that I expected some pushback against the thesis of my paper (co-authored with Michael Makovi) “The Mainstreaming of Marx: Measuring the Effect of the Russian Revolution on Karl Marx’s Influence” from Marxists and other followers of the so…

Last week, a preprint of my new article on Karl Marx’s citation patterns (coauthored with Michael Makovi) was posted on the Journal of Political Economy website.

According to recent reports, both Princeton and Cornell Universities have opted not to take any action over multiple instances of plagiarism by historian Kevin M.

It’s been just over two weeks since I first called attention to signs of possible plagiarism in the works Kevin M.

So it turns out that my earlier suspicions about possible academic integrity issues in Kevin M.

Historian Kevin M.

In their recent essay for the Chronicle of Higher Education, “Reactionary Propaganda Rides Again,” scholars Naomi Oreskes and Charlie Tyson take issue with my own analysis of faculty political ideology in the Chronicle (“Tenured Radicals are Real,” Septem…

The Economic Historian blog has a fascinating discussion at the moment on the “New History of Capitalism” (NHC) school of historiography, and its attempts to grapple with the economic dimensions of slavery.