The author is not the first scholar to tackle the history of America—as in the American continent, not just the United States ...

In 1921, William Bell Riley admonished his opponents that they should “cease from shoveling in dirt on living men,” for the ...

Scopes trial, in which a Dayton, Tennessee, teacher was charged with violating state law by teaching biological evolution, ...

Art and literature hint at past people’s psyches. Now computers can identify patterns in those cognitive fossils, but human expertise remains crucial.

One may want, and even call for, a ‘peaceful’ protest, but realistically we cannot expect millions of Donald Trump supporters ...

President Trump's 24th week focuses on the "one big, beautiful bill deadline, Middle East diplomacy after Iran strikes, and ...

We read Mein Kampf in its hundredth anniversary year with the wisdom of hindsight but also horror-struck at the Israeli state ...

The American model is liberty trumps power. In a police state, power trumps liberty. Is that what we voted for?

Samuel Johnson quipped that even the admirers of John Milton’s epic never wished it “longer than it is.” But “Paradise Lost” ...

June saw the loss of several influential figures in music, sports, and beyond. Brian Wilson was the creative force behind The ...

“ [Reinhold] Niebuhr was right: The art of politics consists of directing rationally the irrationalities of men. But when neither people nor leaders are willing to face reality, look out, ...