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Brent Cebul is Associate Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Illusions of Progress: Business, Poverty, and Liberalism in the American Century (Penn Press, 2023), and co-editor with Lily Geismer of the forthcoming Mastery and Drift: Professional Class Liberals since the 1960s (University of Chicago Press, 2025).
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