6-10-13

Ian Reifowitz is the author of Obama’s America: A Transformative Vision of Our National Identity. Cross-posted from the Huffington Post.

5-20-13

Mark Blyth is Professor of International Political Economy at Brown University. He is the author of "Great Transformations: Economic Ideas and Institutional Change in the Twentieth Century." His most recent book is "Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea" (Oxford University Press, 2013), from which this essay is adapted. Copyright © Oxford University Press.

5-6-13

David Austin Walsh is the editor of the History News Network.