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HistoryJanuary 3, 2023
Has the United States Ever Been a Democracy?
Blending history, political theory, and commentary on current events, Jedediah Purdy’s new book examines how that the United States continues to fail to qualify as a system defined by popular rule.
Sophia Rosenfeld
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Cultural Criticism and AnalysisSeptember 16, 2019
Have Americans Become More Conspiratorial?
In their new book, Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum argue that a new form of conspiracy thinking is consuming our culture in dangerous and alarming ways. But is it?
Sophia Rosenfeld
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April 5, 2017
What Did Equality Mean for the Founders?
Three new books on the early republic explore the critical, if contested, role equality has played in shaping American political culture.
Sophia Rosenfeld
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HistoryMarch 1, 2017
The Only Thing More Dangerous Than Trump’s Appeal to Common Sense Is His Dismissal of It
The president’s taste for fact-free fantasy is based not in traditional American populism but in authoritarianism.
Sophia Rosenfeld
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Health and DiseaseApril 14, 2015
How to Die
Atul Gawande argues that physicians should focus care on the good life—including its very end.
Sophia Rosenfeld
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Language ArtsJune 3, 2014
Free to Choose?
How Americans have become tyrannized by the culture’s overinvestment in choice.
Sophia Rosenfeld
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CultureAugust 22, 2012