A Second Gilded Age? The Promises and Perils of an Analogy: Introduction

RT @dlondonnyu: I'm glad reporters like @David_Ingram are drawing from the special issue @BoydCothran and I put together on the Second Gil…

I'm glad reporters like @David_Ingram are drawing from the special issue @BoydCothran and I put together on the Second Gilded Age ;) https://t.co/GCcWzTMhdT

Spoiler: 14 historians didn’t reach consensus. But the value is their ability to appreciate the “messiness of reality, which is perhaps our greatest virtue, and perhaps our greatest value in a time all too hungry for simple answers and convenient villains”

The rise of identity-based partisan politics, culture wars, and the analogy of a “second Gilded Age” is increasingly being used by journalists and commentators. But as this @Cambridge_Uni paper points out, it’s a perilous comparison with modern times. http