Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen is the Merle Curti Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. This interview is based on her new book, The Ideas That Made America: A Brief History (Oxford University Press, 2019). JF: What led you to write The Ideas...
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After *The New Yorker* Nixes Steve Bannon, Court Evangelical Eric Metaxas Steps-In
David Remnick, the editor of The New Yorker, was going to interview former Trump adviser and Alt-right leader Steve Bannon at the magazine’s annual festival. When other guests at the festival said they would drop-out unless Bannon was disinvited, Remnick folded...