The book can be purchased here. What Is This ‘America’? What is this “America” David Brooks was talking about when he wrote the following?: When America is growing and happy, the country is… Continue reading →

[The book can be purchased here.] Donald Trump, the 45th President of the United States, is also an entertainer and a promoter of the first rank—and he will rule that way: He will… Continue reading →

The Democrats are not going to win in 2020 simply on an anti-Trump agenda. Yet, since their traumatizing defeat last November, all they have done is help grease the skids under Trump’s Titanic… Continue reading →

What’s the difference between the two sides of white America? Can we write off one because we haven’t been able to convince it of our own (white or not) superiority? Because we see… Continue reading →

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BY AARON BARLOW Charles Murray is a complicated figure. A Returned Peace Corps Volunteer (RPCV), he married into a wealthy Thai family and spent time in the countryside…

With hindsight, I see that the Conclusion to The Cult of Individualism is unduly optimistic. Even in 2013, however, I did recognize the divide in the United States, the one between an essentially… Continue reading →

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If you want to teach students to think, you have to challenge them—challenge their beliefs and assumptions. Confirming what they (or their parents, or their communities) already believe…

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BY AARON BARLOW Teaching the Alien and Sedition Acts to my journalism students the other day, I concentrated on this passage: The vituperative quality of the opposition press…

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BY AARON BARLOW Kevin Birmingham, who teaches at Harvard as an adjunct, gave a talk last October on accepting the Truman Capote Award. It is reprinted  in The Chronicle…