KYLE EDWARD WILLIAMS
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Writing​​
  • "The Apocalypse of Milton Friedman," Raritan (Spring 2025).
  • "Conserving Liberalism," The Baffler (September 2021)​.
  • "What Are The Humanities Good For?," The Hedgehog Review (Summer 2021)​.
  • "Amazon and Us," The Hedgehog Review (May 13, 2021)​.
  • "The End of the Businessman President," The New Republic (December 8, 2020).
  • "Covidien and the Failure of Corporate Social Responsibility," The Hedgehog Review (April 13, 2020).
  • "What Howard Zinn Got Wrong," In These Times (March 2020).
  • "Elizabeth Warren’s revolutionary plan to reduce income inequality," Washington Post (August 24, 2018).
  • "Markets are Made: The Story of Capitalism," Comment (April 26, 2018).
  • "Don't Be Evil," The Hedgehog Review (Spring 2018).​
  • "Capitalism's Theologian," Jacobin (Feb. 28, 2017).
  • "The Rhetoric of Cowardice," The Boston Review  (January 14, 2015).
Presentations and Workshops
  • 2020. “The Challenge to Managerialism and the Corporate Politics of the Late Twentieth Century.” Business History Conference. Charlotte, NC.
  • January 17, 2020. “The End of Managerial Autonomy.” History of Capitalism Seminar. Newberry Library. Chicago, IL.
  • 2019. Chair and Presenter, “The End of Liberalism” Roundtable. Society for U.S. Intellectual History. New York, NY.
  • November 22, 2019. “Taming the Octopus.” Emerging Ideas Workshop. Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture. Charlottesville, VA.
  • 2019. “Profits, Politics, and New Deal Liberalism: Corporate Social Responsibility in the Postwar Era.” American Historical Association. Chicago, IL. 
  • 2018. “Reforming Corporations from Within: Shareholder Activism and the New Left.” Business History Conference. Baltimore, MD.
  • 2017. “Are Corporations Persons? Corporate Personality and the Liberal State.” Society for U.S. Intellectual History Conference. Dallas, TX.
  • 2017. “Shareholder Democracy vs. ‘The City of God’: Debates over Corporate Polity in Mid-Century United States.” Business History Conference. Denver, CO.
  • 2016. “Kansas Oil War of 1905: ‘Roosevelt’s Populists’ and the Making of Markets.” Workshop in the History of Environment, Agriculture, Technology, and Science. New Brunswick, NJ.
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