Author Profile
Chris Lehmann
Chris Lehmann, a contributing editor of In These Times,
is editor-in-chief at Baffler and the author of The Money Cult: Capitalism, Christianity, and the Unmaking of the American Dream (Melville House, 2016).
A former managing editor of In These Times, his work has also appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The Washington Post and Slate, among other publications.
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The Self-Help Guru Who Shaped Trump’s Worldview
How the commander-in-chief succumbs to the perils of positive thinking. MORE
Culture · December 13, 2017
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The White-Supremacist Roots of America’s Libertarian Right
The history of Koch-style libertarian economics is steeped in racism. MORE
Culture · July 24, 2017
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The Fairy Tales Capitalists Tell Themselves
The new book The Wisdom of Money amounts to morale-boosting capitalist agitprop. MORE
Culture · June 27, 2017
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How the Threat of Apocalypse Justifies American Empire
A new book argues that in the military's hands, warnings of world's end become self-fulfilling prophecies. MORE
Culture · May 23, 2017
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Our New Philanthropic Overlords
Why the donor class loves charter schools—and themselves. MORE
Culture · April 10, 2017
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To Form a More Corporate Union
The Land of Enterprise: A Business History of the United States shows that Trump's greed is no aberration. MORE
Culture · March 30, 2017
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George Saunders’ New Novel Follows Abraham Lincoln’s Son to a Buddhist Afterlife
In his first full-length novel, the short story virtuoso weaves U.S. history with the otherworldly. MORE
Culture · February 10, 2017
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Neoliberalism, Cranked up to 11
Jonathan Coe's Number 11 offers a bleak portrait of what Britain has become. MORE
Culture · January 27, 2017
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CNN’s New Book Is a Master Class in How Not to Cover an Election
The news network's instant retrospective on the Trump-Clinton race is as vacuous as their initial coverage was. MORE
Culture · December 21, 2016
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Thomas Friedman’s Latest Book Is a Tour Through His Troubled, Neoliberal Mind
We read 500 pages of corporate platitudes and ungainly metaphor so you don't have to. MORE
Culture · November 22, 2016