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Articles by Tom Mertes
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War, Crash, Slump
in NLR 65, September-October 2010, pp. 127-140
Subjects: History and Historiography , World Economy and Globalization
Tom Mertes on Liaquat Ahamed, Lords of Finance. Bestselling portrait of the interwar world’s central bankers as originators of the Great Depression—with edifying comparisons to their modern counterparts.
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American Duopoly
in NLR 49, January-February 2008, pp. 123-135
Subjects: Political Theory and Strategy , United States
Tom Mertes on Jerry Hough, Changing Party Coalitions. Ethnic and confessional divisions as the origins of America’s political alignments, and the elite strategies that have culminated in today’s red–blue polarization.
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Whitewashing Jackson
in NLR 42, November-December 2006, pp. 132-138
Subjects: Biography and Intellectual History , United States
Tom Mertes on Sean Wilentz, Andrew Jackson. A retouched portrait of the Democrat founding father—minus Indian massacres, slave exploitation and financial bubble.
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A Republican Proletariat
in NLR 30, November-December 2004, pp. 37-47
Subjects: United States
Why did cultural bogeys trump economic distress as working-class voters went to the polls in the US? Can the case of Kansas stand in for proletarian America at large, as Thomas Frank suggests? Billionaire Democrats and blue-collar Republicans in the twisting shapes of the 21st-century political system.
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Southern Discomfort
in NLR 22, July-August 2003, pp. 143-150
Subjects: World Economy and Globalization
Tom Mertes on Walden Bello, Deglobalization. Ideas of another world economy, less subject to the diktats of the imf and the straitjackets of the WTO.
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Grass-Roots Globalism
in NLR 17, September-October 2002, pp. 101-110
Subjects: Political Theory and Strategy , Movements
Replying to Michael Hardt with an alternative look at Porto Alegre, Tom Mertes argues that while the variety of movements and forces in the WSF is not to be reduced to a single scale, the differences between them are less to do with organization than strategy.
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Light from Florida
in NLR 12, November-December 2001, pp. 168-172
Subjects: United States
Tom Mertes on Richard Posner, Breaking the Deadlock. The first lucid analysis of the upshot of the US Presidential election, and its setting in the West’s most backward democracy.
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Baffler in Boomtown
in NLR 7, January-February 2001, pp. 151-155
Subjects: United States , World Economy and Globalization
Tom Mertes on Thomas Frank, One Market Under God. The Robin Hood of anti-Cultural Studies leads a merry chase against market populism.
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On No Logo
in NLR 4, July-August 2000, pp. 168-172
Subjects: Political Theory and Strategy , World Economy and Globalization
Tom Mertes on Naomi Klein, No Logo. Emblems of ownership: from branding hides to clothes, cattle to people? A Canadian reporter’s stinging attack on the new corporate logic behind logo-mania.
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Counsellor to Clinton
in NLR 1, January-February 2000, pp. 157-161
Subjects: Biography and Intellectual History , Political Theory and Strategy , United States
Tom Mertes on Dick Morris, The New Prince. America's fallen political adviser as a surrogate Machiavelli for the White House.
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