Kolko first became known in academic circles for two books, The Triumph of Conservatism: A Reinterpretation of American History, 1900-1916 (1963) and Railroads and Regulation, 1877-1916 (1965), in ...

I'm reading Gabriel Kolko’s classic The Triumph of Conservatism: A Reinterpretation of American History 1900–1916 (1963). A far more profound book than the vast majority of scholarship on the ...

We received word this morning that our friend and long-time CounterPunch writer Gabriel Kolko died yesterday at his home in Amsterdam. Kolko, author of The Triumph of Conservatism, Anatomy of a War: ...

One sure way to irritate leftist historian Gabriel Kolko was to mistake him for a libertarian. From his office at Toronto's York University, the American-born professor sent the libertarian monthly ...

Gabriel Kolko (1932-2014), a longtime contributor to Counterpunch, burst onto the field of American historical scholarship with the publication of The Triumph of Conservatism: A Reinterpretation of ...

Historian Kolko (Century of War) comes right out and blames the West: "the principal... danger the entire world confronts is America's capacity and readiness to intervene virtually anywhere." U.S.

Since the middle of the 19th Century, the central questions in European politics have been the closely-connected questions of nationalism and the rise of German power. As my good friend and eminent ...

The leftist historian Gabriel Kolko has died at age 81. He wrote many books that drew interest from libertarians, from Railroads and Regulation (1965), on the early history of the Interstate Commerce ...

Conservatives have long taken for granted their place on the right of the political spectrum. But as the organized Right, in the form of the Republican Party, has hitched its wagon to big business and ...

Every American knows the fable of the Progressive Era and that “trust buster” Teddy Roosevelt wielding the big stick of federal power to battle the greedy corporations. We would be better off if more ...

Gabriel Kolko, the author of “Century of War,” and “Anatomy of a War,” does not mince words. “September 11 confirmed, if any confirmation was needed, that the United States has abysmally failed to ...