Lynn Parramore

Lynn Parramore is a cultural historian whose work illuminates the deep interconnections among history, economics, culture, and psychology, revealing how collective narratives and moral assumptions shape economic life and power.

Lynn Parramore is a cultural historian whose work illuminates the deep interconnections among history, economics, culture, and psychology, revealing how collective narratives and moral assumptions shape economic life and power. She earned her Ph.D. from New York University and is the author of Reading the Sphinx and the editor of How the Occupy Movement Is Changing America. A Senior Research Analyst at the Institute for New Economic Thinking and former Media Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute, she is a frequent contributor and commentator across major news and media outlets, bringing intellectual range and cultural insight to contemporary debates. She has also founded and co-founded several digital media platforms focused on politics, culture, and economic justice.

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Why Aren’t Libertarians Protesting the Freedom-Busting Texas Abortion Law?

Article | Sep 8, 2021

On deregulation and Covid masks, libertarians are loud. On female liberty, deafening silence.

“We Are Running a Giant Experiment on Children”: Covid Deniers Put Kids at Risk

Article | Aug 19, 2021

“Just learn to live with it” policies subject children to an experiment with a systemic disease that does serious and lasting damage, warns former NASA and DARPA technologist

Libertarians and the Vaccine: Give Me Liberty and Give Them Death

Article | Aug 9, 2021

If libertarians wish to maintain their self-centered fixation on their own freedoms without considering others, let them do so — in indefinite quarantine from the rest of us.

Who Can Save Us From Jeff Bezos and Silicon Valley’s Planetary Death Wish?

Article | Jul 30, 2021

The work of feminist thinkers helps illuminate why billionaires seek to solve problems on Earth by blasting into space.

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