Kim Phillips-Fein
Kim Phillips-Fein is the Robert Gardiner-Kenneth T. Jackson Professor of History at Columbia University. She is the author of Fear City: New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics and Invisible Hands: The Businessman's Crusade Against the New Deal. Her book Country of Lords: Neo-Aristocrats, Social Darwinists, Tech Utopians and the Long Fight Against Equality in America will be published in July 2026 by W.W. Norton.