The Nutty ’90s
John Ganz’s When the Clock Broke offers a tour of ’90s politics, from Klansmen strangled on talk shows to a drugged-up George H. W. Bush running for office.
Do the 1990s hold the key to understanding today’s authoritarian populism? That’s intellectual historian John Ganz’s contention in his new book, When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Con-spiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s. In a post-2016 election daze, liberals often projected onto the past a frictionless world of open borders and […]