A collection of 25 posts
Americans who may have ferocious disagreements about the size of government, foreign policy, and a wide range of other issues must find a way to unite around their shared commitment to the liberal idea.
William J. Mann’s new book about the notorious Black Dahlia case is a valuable corrective to the cottage industry of speculative theories that proliferated after her murder in 1947.
Is telling lies about someone after they die okay if that someone was a very bad person?
How the 6 Gallery reading in San Francisco on 7 October 1955 changed the counterculture.
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Russell Shorto, whose new book chronicles the extraordinary events in 1664 that delivered Manhattan from the Dutch to the British.
Jefferson Morley’s dogged pursuit of a CIA connection in Miami is all smoke and no fire.
Disco Demolition Night was an early episode of culture and counterculture being saddled with far greater political significance than they deserved.
What a Cold War scandal can teach us about democracy.
Exceptionalism is a double-edged sword, which cuts those blind to America’s flaws and those blind to its virtues.
Richard Bernstein’s new book about Al Jolson and ‘The Jazz Singer’ offers a thoughtful reconsideration of an unfairly reviled cultural landmark.
How Alexis de Tocqueville foretold the rise of victimhood culture.
When we examine the entirety of his long life, we see that Jimmy Carter was among the very best of us.
In a new book, David Alff traces the origins of the railway line that joined Boston to Washington, D.C., transforming a young nation in the process.
In the 21st instalment of ‘Nations of Canada,’ Greg Koabel describes how the arrival of Dutch fur traders sparked an upheaval in regional Indigenous geopolitics.
The story of William Cobbett and the American Revolutionary culture wars.