Amity Shlaes, the popular conservative author who has set out to debunk the New Deal, has issued a clarion call to cartoonists—or, rather, to her fellow conservatives, to hire themselves some ...

From Shlaes's Bloomberg column: Every administration has its movie. George W. Bush seemed too often on the wrong side of guerrilla warfare in “The Battle of Algiers.” Bill Clinton mixed business and ...

In a recent National Review Online article (“Inflation Vacation”), Amity Shlaes complained that taking a summer vacation today is a lot more expensive than it was in 2000. She pointed to higher prices ...

Ellen Pao’s discrimination lawsuit against Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers will “probably not” be good for women in venture capital, Ms. Shlaes argues, before making her way through the Corn Maze of ...

I've seen some bad arguments that we must fear inflation, but possibly nothing as unpersuasive as the one Amity Shlaes mounts today: Is our economy headed back into a recession? A look at a past ...

Great Society: A New History, by Amity Shlaes (HarperCollins, 511 pp., $32.50) In Great Society: A New History, Amity Shlaes revisits the welfare programs of the Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon ...

A generation ago, the total dismissal of the New Deal remained a marginal sentiment in American politics. Ronald Reagan boasted of having voted for Franklin Roosevelt. Neoconservatives long maintained ...

In 1997, the anti-tax evangelistGrover Norquist launched a campaign he called the Ronald Reagan Legacy Project, with the aim of putting the name of the former president on virtually anything that ...

Amity Shlaes speaks during a Reuters event at the Thomson Reuters Headquarters in New York, N.Y., May 2, 2017.(Darren Ornitz/Reuters) David is joined this week by economic historian Amity Shlaes for a ...

President Barack Obama this week in his State of the Union Address asked Congress to raise the hourly minimum wage from $7.25 to $9 to help fight poverty. While Obama said Thursday that raising the ...

Are conservatives forever and always doomed to be obsessed by fear that inflation is perpetually just around the corner? Perhaps, since it was the Great Inflation of the 1970s that helped give rise to ...