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Kim Phillips-Fein

Kim Phillips-Fein is Professor of History at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at NYU. Her most recent book, Fear City: New York’s Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics, was a finalist for a 2018 Pulitzer Prize in History. Her writing has also appeared in The Nation, The New Republic, and the New Labor Forum.

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Philosophy & Religion

The Gospel of Oil

Oil’s grip on U.S. society is as much religious as economic, a new history shows.

Kim Phillips-Fein

Forum Response

From the Affluent Society to the Politics of Austerity

Our economic inequalities were anticipated even at the height of postwar affluence.

Kim Phillips-Fein

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