Kathleen J. Frydl holds a Ph.D. in history and specializes in American political development in the twentieth century. Her published work includes two books: the award-winning The GI Bill (2009), and The Drug Wars in America: 1940-1973, named one of Vox's "Best Books We Read in 2014." Writing for a general audience, her work has appeared in Vox, Dissent, The American Prospect, and the Washington Monthly. She is the author of the white paper, "Trade Not War: A New Approach to Supply-Side Counternarcotics Policy," written for the Niskanen Center and published in April 2025.

This is a really good book. Really good. Liberalism and the Reinvention of the Modern Corporation takes the reader on a fascinating, and perhaps unexpected, journey through Catholic hospitals, the expansion of the carceral state, and corporate and union access to the protections of First Amendment freedom of speech. All the while, Kathleen J. Frydl is rigorously constructing an understanding and positioning of the modern corporation within the governmental structures and protections of the American political system.

Kathleen J. Frydl holds a Ph.D. in history and specializes in American political development in the twentieth century. Her published work includes two books: the award-winning The GI Bill (2009), and The Drug Wars in America: 1940-1973, named one of Vox's "Best Books We Read in 2014." Writing for a general audience, her work has appeared in Vox, Dissent, The American Prospect, and the Washington Monthly. She is the author of the white paper, "Trade Not War: A New Approach to Supply-Side Counternarcotics Policy," written for the Niskanen Center and published in April 2025.

This is a really good book. Really good. Liberalism and the Reinvention of the Modern Corporation takes the reader on a fascinating, and perhaps unexpected, journey through Catholic hospitals, the expansion of the carceral state, and corporate and union access to the protections of First Amendment freedom of speech. All the while, Kathleen J. Frydl is rigorously constructing an understanding and positioning of the modern corporation within the governmental structures and protections of the American political system.

Kathleen J. Frydl holds a Ph.D. in history and specializes in American political development in the twentieth century. Her published work includes two books: the award-winning The GI Bill (2009), and The Drug Wars in America: 1940-1973, named one of Vox's "Best Books We Read in 2014." Writing for a general audience, her work has appeared in Vox, Dissent, The American Prospect, and the Washington Monthly. She is the author of the white paper, "Trade Not War: A New Approach to Supply-Side Counternarcotics Policy," written for the Niskanen Center and published in April 2025.

This is a really good book. Really good. Liberalism and the Reinvention of the Modern Corporation takes the reader on a fascinating, and perhaps unexpected, journey through Catholic hospitals, the expansion of the carceral state, and corporate and union access to the protections of First Amendment freedom of speech. All the while, Kathleen J. Frydl is rigorously constructing an understanding and positioning of the modern corporation within the governmental structures and protections of the American political system.