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Sophia Rosenfeld is Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of Common Sense: A Political History.
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April 5, 2017
Three new books on the early republic explore the critical, if contested, role equality has played in shaping American political culture.
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The president’s taste for fact-free fantasy is based not in traditional American populism but in authoritarianism.
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Atul Gawande argues that physicians should focus care on the good life—including its very end.
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How Americans have become tyrannized by the culture’s overinvestment in choice.
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Hard truths about lying in politics
