Faculty note: Harvey Kaye

Prof. Harvey Kaye (Social Change and Development) has published an essay at the website New Deal 2.0, a project of the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute. Kaye takes aim at “The Right’s Rotten History” and argues that prominent entertainers/politicians including Glenn Beck, Jim DeMint, and Rick Perry continue to “hijack” history and paint misleading portraits of the Founding Fathers and Franklin Roosevelt. Concludes Kaye, a historical adviser to the Four Freedoms project celebrating FDR’s legacy, “To defend the great democratic advances of the 1930s and 1940s and to build upon them, we must remember what they were and how they were secured, which means we must not only speak smartly of politics and policy, but also of the past.” Read the essay.