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A class divide over education portends danger for a democratic people

Historiographical intervention may animate the profession’s ambitious social climbers. But is it winning any readers in the general public?

Nature knows the secret of rejuvenation. Can we learn it, too?

If libertarianism has recently united these old foes, maybe opposition to it can, too

Beneath the Claremont Institute’s turn to Trumpism lie yet more troubling turns

Winners write history. But what if we occasionally used Constitution Day to think about what might have been? What if we told the story of the 1780s from the perspective of the losers?

If personal responsibility is so great, why isn’t it working? 

In his music, Gregory Porter shows how far gratitude and respect can take us

If infirmity shadows us, other kinds of presence do, too

Trumpism reminds us that stupidity is an enduring threat

“Love and duty called you someplace higher Somewhere up the stairs, into the fire”
– Bruce Springsteen

The fascination of conservatives with Hungary underscores the paradox at the heart of the movement

For all of our efforts to reckon with Confederate memorials, a tribute to the Lost Cause remains prominent in our most sacred of places

A lot can happen at protests—especially to you

How easily we forget the strangeness of the body

Recently someone close to me, a devout evangelical Christian, texted to explain why he was not getting the COVID-19 vaccine. “Jesus went around healing lepers and touched them without fear of getting leprosy,” he said. And if this reference to […]

What exactly is Trump’s brand of masculinity?

Katie Luther went from being depicted as a vile prostitute to a happy homemaker. Why does that matter?

How do nations endure amid threatening political differences?

Tomorrow’s historians will no doubt pay special attention to the time in which we now live: a season of cut-throat politics, a pandemic that has changed everything, a collective cry for racial justice on American streets and in public discourse, […]