…were already coalescing as the ball dropped in Times Square on New Year’s Eve 2008.”

Sorry to end the year on a spirit of impending doom, but there you go: I tell it like it is, baby. I was one of the 23 historians in a Politico roundup (December 27 2019) imagining how the 2010s will be represented in history textbooks. You have to dig down to get to my contribution, but I guarantee you, it is worth it.

Then go read Public Seminar‘s weekly issue.