Paul Mellon Professor of American History Emeritus at the University of Cambridge
Historian of the twentieth- and twenty-first century United States speaking and writing on issues of American politics, political economy, and American peoplehood
Contemporary Writing
"Will Bidenism Outlive Biden? The President's Revolution is Yet to Bear Fruit" | 2023
"Comme s’orienter sur le ‘plateau néolibéral’? une conversation avec Thomas Piketty, Felicia Wong et Gary Gerstle" | 2023
Le Grand Continent, June 2023
"Are US Politics Starting to Turn Towards a More Hopeful Future?" | 2022
The Guardian, November 15, 2022
"Mitch McConnell Greatly Damaged US Democracy with Quiet, Chess-Like Moves" | 2022
The Guardian, August 15, 2022
"America’s Democratic Decline Began Long Before Trump or COVID" | 2022
An interview with Kelly Candaele in Capital and Main, May 27, 2022
"Neoliberalism Died Before Ukraine" | 2022
Unherd.com, May 16, 2022
"Has Neoliberalism Really Come to an End?" | 2022
The Nation, April 13, 2022 – “A conversation with historian Gary Gerstle about understanding neoliberalism as a bipartisan worldview and how the political order it ushered in has crumbled.”
"Why Mikhail Gorbachev Let the Soviet Union Dissolve Quietly Into History" | 2022
Big Think, April 7, 2022
"America’s Culture Wars Distract From What’s Happening Beneath Them" | 2022
The Guardian, April 5, 2022
"When Americans Liked Taxes" | 2022
New York Review of Books, February 23, 2022
"Don’t Call Joe Biden a Failed President Yet" | 2022
The Guardian, January 26, 2022
"America is at a Crossroads. The Supreme Court May Decide Which Way It Goes" | 2021
The Guardian, November 15, 2021
"Biden’s Infrastructure Success is a Historic – and Sorely Needed – Win" | 2021
The Guardian, November 8, 2021
"Progressives are Now Heavyweights in the Democratic Party" | 2021
The Guardian, October 12, 2021
"The Age of Neoliberalism is Ending in America. What Will Replace It?" | 2021
The Guardian, June 28, 2021
"AMERIKA MÁ HLUBOKO V DNA OBČANSKOU I RASOVOU TRADICI. TRUMP SE PŘISÁL K TÉ DRUHÉ" | 2020
"Det USA, som valgte Barack Obama, er her stadig" | 2020
"The New Federalism" | 2020
"America is still burdened by its racial past" | 2018
"The Radicalization of the Republican Party" | 2017
“Rassismus hat Trump die Tür in die Politik geöffnet” | 2017
An interview with Gary Gerstle appearing in the Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung, January 26, 2017 (PDF)
“The People Rise up in the United State’s Latest Seismic Political Shift” | 2017
"Remember the State Houses!" | 2016
"Historians Assess Obama's Legacy Under Trump's Shadow" | 2016
"A Real Opening" (Part of a Special Section "Up from Neoliberalism") | 2023
Dissent, Fall 2023
“America’s Other Election” | 2016
"In Attacking Immigrants, Republicans Repeat a Century-Old Mistake" | 2016
“Donald Trump’s ‘America First’ slogan has a toxic past” | 2016
“Corbyn, Sanders, and the Populist Surge” | 2016
"The US is a failed state thanks to its system of government" | 2016
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