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David Coates

David Coates holds the Worrell Chair in Anglo-American Studies at Wake Forest University. He is the author of 'Answering Back: Liberal Responses to Conservative Arguments', New York: Continuum Books, 2010. You can visit his website at http://www.davidcoates.net. He writes here in a personal capacity.

Flawed Capitalism On Both Sides Of The Atlantic

David Coates

Given the scale of poverty and inequality in contemporary Britain (and indeed in the United States), no right-thinking person can presumably be fully happy with

Standard Dilemmas Of Centre-Left Politics

David Coates

On a day-to-day basis, it is hard to break free of a mindset dominated in the UK by the details of the Brexit negotiations or

Democratic Primaries In The Shadow Of Neoliberalism

David Coates

The Democratic Party primary battle between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders is being fought in the shadow of “neoliberalism” – in the shadow, that is,

America’s War On Poverty, America’s War On The Poor

David Coates

January 2014 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the State of the Union Address in which Lyndon Johnson launched the War on Poverty. This anniversary is