To the end of his life, Sklar professed to be a socialist and political thinker on the left. Yet he ended up an outspoken defender of both George W. Bush’s neoconservative globalism and the Tea Party move­ment. These stances emerged from an increasingly idiosyncratic and expansive understanding of the macro-historical leftward movement of the United States, but also from personal and professional grievances. Drawing on his experiences of the sectarian New Left milieu of the 1970s and within academia, Sklar became a strident critic of what is now known as identity politics…

In recent years, experiments in basic income have proliferated across the United States. According to a September 2022 report in the New York Times, at least forty-eight trials have been launched since 2020, and several more have been announced this year. A constellation of organi­zations is behind these efforts, with municipalities raising funds for individual pilots…