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Books
Book reviews and essays from the Washington Monthly on the new books shaping debates over politics, policy, history, and American democracy.
Posted inBooks, College Guide, Featured, Magazine, September/October 2017
What Your Country Should Do for You
A new, post-Clinton repudiation of the politics of personal responsibility, though elegant, may still not convince skeptical voters.
Posted inBooks, College Guide, Magazine, Main, September/October 2017
Identity Crisis
Liberalism needs a broader collective vision to break free of its captivity to the political interests of narrow groups.
Posted inBooks, College Guide, Featured, Magazine, September/October 2017
What Would Donald Do?
How evangelical Christians got to the point where they could embrace a Hugh Hefner–like president.
Posted inBooks, College Guide, Magazine, September/October 2017
The Constitutional Case for Equality
The founders assumed that America would always be a middle-class nation. That makes it particularly important to check the power of plutocrats today.
Posted inBooks, Featured
Russia’s Founding Father
A new, definitive biography of Mikhail Gorbachev tells the story of the man most responsible for ending the Cold War.
Posted inBooks, Featured
Why the Midwest Can’t Catch a Break
Beyond de-industrialization and consolidation, GOP politicians have dismantled the public infrastructure of the heartland.
Posted inBooks, Featured
The Schism Between Reagan and the Modern GOP
Many self-appointed keepers of the Reagan flame are more ideological and uncompromising than the Gipper ever was.
Posted inBooks, Featured, June/July/August 2017, Magazine
The Clash of Victimizations
Donald Trump’s fixation on fallen glory and festering grievance is uncomfortably close to the story China tells about itself.
Posted inBooks, June/July/August 2017, Magazine, Main
Lincoln’s Forgotten Middle Years
As the nation was moving apart, he was coming together.
