Amity Shlaes

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Amity Shlaes, chairman of the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation, is the author of "Great Society" and co-editor, with Matthew Denhart, of a new edition of Coolidge's autobiography.

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Bloomberg Opinion

Republicans Shouldn’t Be Democrats-Lite

GOP senators offering plans to recapture the political center should study history. Spoiler alert: It won’t give them much comfort.

March 4, 2021

OpinionAmity Shlaes and Matthew Denhart

Republicans Shouldn’t Be Democrats-Lite

GOP senators offering plans to recapture the political center should study history. Spoiler alert: It won’t give them much comfort.

January 23, 2017

OpinionAmity Shlaes

Defining 'Forgotten Man' Is Key to Trump's Presidency

Let's hope Goldman Sachs isn't part of the answer.

June 28, 2016

OpinionAmity Shlaes

Bursting the Great American Bubble: High School

The success of the high-standards Basis Schools shows how U.S. students can compete globally.

September 30, 2015

OpinionAmity Shlaes

Carson's 'Tithing' Is Sounder Than Rubio's Tax Plan

The ex-surgeon's 10 percent idea is more responsible than Rubio's credit-heavy package.

U.S. Presidential Candidate Ben Carson Rally

April 15, 2013

OpinionAmity Shlaes

As Tax Day Passes, the Tax Grope Begins

April 8, 2013

OpinionAmity Shlaes

Thatcher Wouldn’t Succeed in Our ‘Lean In’ Culture: Amity Shlaes

April 3, 2013

OpinionAmity Shlaes

What Parents Don’t Know About Bowdoin

March 21, 2013

OpinionAmity Shlaes

The Republicans’ Self-Defeating War on Eyeshades

February 26, 2013

OpinionAmity Shlaes

Gatsby, Galbraith and the Myth of Coolidge’s Crash

February 11, 2013

OpinionAmity Shlaes

Engage With the World

January 31, 2013

OpinionAmity Shlaes

In Davos or in Combat, Give Women What They Earn

January 24, 2013

OpinionAmity Shlaes

Obama May Help Democrats’ Future in Shift to FDR

January 10, 2013

OpinionAmity Shlaes

James Buchanan, a Star Economist Who Understood Obamacare

January 2, 2013

OpinionAmity Shlaes

1950s Tax Fantasy Is a Republican Nightmare

December 25, 2012

OpinionAmity Shlaes

How Unions Promote Wage Inequality

December 4, 2012

OpinionAmity Shlaes

Obama’s Sanctimony Proves Who the Real Scrooge Is

November 18, 2012

OpinionAmity Shlaes

2013 Looks a Lot Like 1937 in Four Fearsome Ways

November 12, 2012

OpinionAmity Shlaes

Petraeus’s Narcissism

November 7, 2012

OpinionAmity Shlaes

Americans Forget Disaster of Big Government 1970s

November 1, 2012

OpinionAmity Shlaes

Disasters Create Bigger, Not Better, Government