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Christoph Irmscher, a distinguished professor of English at Indiana University Bloomington, is a biographer and frequent book reviewer, most regularly for The Art Newspaper.
Long before the Southern Poverty Law Center, non-government organizations ran undercover operations against American fascists.
The Education Department investigates the venerable women’s school for admitting transgender women and granting them access to “women-only” spaces like dorms. A Smith College scholar shows how Trump’s perverse probe fits a conservative Republican pattern.
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Democrats should unite behind Graham Platner if Maine’s Democratic voters pick him to run against Senator Susan Collins. But voters should make that choice first.
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You’ve probably heard of Bowling Alone, the hugely influential 2000 book diagnosing our country’s malaise by Robert Putnam, the Harvard University political scientist. In it, Putnam showed that Americans’ stock of social capital—the fabric of a community’s trust and cooperation—had been plummeting since the 1950s, and that its decline was harming our well-being, personal relationships, health, lifespan, and economic growth. In the quarter-century since the book received widespread attention, social trust, accepted norms, and community cohesion continue to come undone, paving the way for the rise of authoritarian populism and damage to the republic. Indeed, the number of people saying…
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New polling shows not so much ideological division among Democrats but a lack of consensus about where the party should go.
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“Hamilton” aside, America’s first colleges like Harvard, Yale, and William & Mary bred more faithful subjects of the crown than revolutionaries.
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The late great representative’s near political end in a sex scandal is a reminder of why Congress should pause before forcing members to resign.
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