A collection of 51 posts
The son of Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers has written a perceptive, fascinating, and rather sad book about his lonely life as the child of violent revolutionaries.
A new account of the 1992 siege at Ruby Ridge attempts to straighten out the record and place the story in a broader political and theological context.
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.
Mary Clare Jalonick’s oral history of the 6 January riot is an important corrective to the second Trump administration’s vandalism of the historical record.
Is telling lies about someone after they die okay if that someone was a very bad person?
Neil Young is eighty.
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.
Clay Risen’s new book about the American “Red Scare” emphasises the injustices of anti-communism but minimises the true extent and danger of communist infiltration.
Consigned to the political wilderness, progressives and left-liberals could do a lot worse than shed their disdain for patriotism.
Exceptionalism is a double-edged sword, which cuts those blind to America’s flaws and those blind to its virtues.