Sidney Plotkin

Sidney Plotkin is a professor of political science and Margaret Stiles Halleck Chair of Social Sciences at Vassar College. His most recent book is "Veblen's America: The Conspicuous Case of Donald J. Trump."

Thorstein Veblen; Donald Trump

How Progressive Era radical Thorstein Veblen helps explain Donald Trump Sidney Plotkin

Andrew Jackson; Donald Trump

Donald Trump, Andrew Jackson and American "greatness": There are valid parallels — but not in a good way Sidney Plotkin

Alexander Hamilton and Donald Trump

From Alexander Hamilton to Donald Trump: Electoral College history offers no room for wishful thinking Sidney Plotkin

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