Paul Mellon Professor of American History at the University of Cambridge
Historian of the twentieth-century United States speaking and writing on issues of American politics, immigration, and inequality
Contemporary writing
"A Real Opening" (Part of a Special Section "Up from Neoliberalism") | 2023
Dissent, Fall 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
“America’s Other Election” | 2016
“Corbyn, Sanders, and the Populist Surge” | 2016
"In Attacking Immigrants, Republicans Repeat a Century-Old Mistake" | 2016
“Donald Trump’s ‘America First’ slogan has a toxic past” | 2016
"The US is a failed state thanks to its system of government" | 2016
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