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Newly Declassified Documents Reveal the Untold Stories of the Red Scare
In his latest book, journalist and historian Clay Risen explores how the House Un-American Activities Committee and Senator Joseph McCarthy upended the nation.
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Sara Georgini
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Clay Risen
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Smithsonian
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April 1, 2025
partner
The Alarming Effort To Rewrite the History of Watergate
For decades, politicians distanced themselves from Nixon's Watergate legacy. Now, some are advancing a new history.
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Michael Koncewicz
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Made By History
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March 24, 2025
Social Security Is Not a Ponzi Scheme
Today’s attacks are just the latest form of backlash to the New Deal.
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Lawrence B. Glickman
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Boston Review
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March 11, 2025
The Culture War Doesn’t Distract Us From the Class War; It Directs Us To It
On William Safire and the "nattering nabobs of negativism."
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Corey Robin
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Corey Robin Blog
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March 4, 2025
The Worldview of the Afrikaner Diaspora Now Haunts the US
Elon Musk and other tech moguls with roots in apartheid-era South Africa have been shaped by the history of right-wing white nationalism.
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Joseph Dana
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New Lines
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February 19, 2025
How Progressives Broke the Government
Democrats’ cultural aversion to power has cleaved an opening for Trump.
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Marc J. Dunkelman
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The Atlantic
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February 16, 2025
What Happened the Last Time a President Purged the Bureaucracy
The impact can linger not just for years but decades.
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Clay Risen
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Politico Magazine
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February 6, 2025
Opus Dei, Embezzlement, and Human Trafficking
The Catholic order has branches all over the world, and a deep history of unethical and illegal behavior.
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Mark Oppenheimer
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Gareth Gore
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Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera
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January 21, 2025
Rise and Fall of the ‘Pansy Craze’
On Jazz Age gay culture and its backlash.
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Margaret Vandenburg
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Gay And Lesbian Review
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January 2, 2025
Jimmy Carter, 1924-2024
As an individual, Jimmy Carter stood as a rebuke to our venal and heartless political class. As a politician, his private virtues proved to be public vices.
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Tim Barker
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Origins of Our Time
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January 1, 2025
How Jimmy Carter Became a Cold War Hawk
Jimmy Carter is associated with an idealistic “human rights agenda.” In reality, he was paving the way for Ronald Reagan’s aggressive anti-communism.
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Seth Ackerman
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Aaron Donaghy
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Jacobin
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December 29, 2024
American Marxism Got Lost on Campus
At universities, American Marxism has led to good scholarship, but it’s also encouraged hyper-specialization and the use of impenetrable jargon.
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Russell Jacoby
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Jacobin
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December 8, 2024
“The Relationship Between Public Morals and Public Toilets”
Christine Jorgensen and the birth of trans bathroom panic.
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Nikita Shepard
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Nursing Clio
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November 27, 2024
Back to the Future
Why “Let’s have public schools like the Founding Fathers had” is such a terrible idea.
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Adam Laats
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Slate
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November 20, 2024
Trump Is Not an Aberration
America’s path has been contested since its founding, and realizing the promise of liberty required generations of struggle.
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Jeffrey C. Isaac
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New Lines
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November 12, 2024
The Parenting Panic
Contrary to both far right and mainstream center-left, there’s no epidemic of chosen childlessness.
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Aaron Bady
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Boston Review
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October 30, 2024
Donald Trump Would Be Weaker the Second Time Around
Donald Trump wants the ideology of William McKinley and Gilded Age Republicanism, but with a totally different social base. It won’t work.
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Paul Heidman
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Jacobin
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October 23, 2024
The Muslim Thinker Who Inspired Reagan
How Ibn Khaldun influenced the president and a generation of conservative tax policy.
by
Mustafa Akyol
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The Dispatch
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October 10, 2024
How Moderate Republicans Went Extinct
On Nelson Rockefeller and the disappearance of moderate Republicans from American politics.
by
Henry M. J. Tonks
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Public Seminar
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September 18, 2024
Censorship Through Centuries
A new book examines battles over drag story hours and book bans through the lens of LGBTQ history.
by
Rebecca L. Davis
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Literary Hub
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September 9, 2024
What If Ronald Reagan’s Presidency Never Really Ended?
Anti-Trump Republicans revere Ronald Reagan as Trump’s opposite—yet in critical ways Reagan may have been his forerunner.
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Daniel Immerwahr
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The New Yorker
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September 9, 2024
The Return of the Common Law?
The originalist revolution will never be complete until we fully appreciate the natural law roots of the common law.
by
Steven Hayward
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Law & Liberty
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September 9, 2024
What a 100-Year-Old Trial Reveals About America
A new book on the famed 1920s court case traces a long-simmering culture war—and the fear that often drives both sides.
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John Kaag
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The Atlantic
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August 29, 2024
Jesus Freaks: On the Free Spirited Evangelicals of the 1970s and 80s
Chronicling the emergence of a unique blend of counterculture and Christianity.
by
Eliza Griswold
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Literary Hub
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August 8, 2024
partner
A Nation Is a Living Thing
In the 1920s, many in the U.S. fought for a living Constitution. Plenty of others wanted it dead.
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Michael D. Hattem
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HNN
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August 6, 2024
partner
The Massive Cultural Changes That Made Dr. Ruth Possible
Dr. Ruth left a legacy of sexual candor and the need to defend pleasure as a universal right—a conversation that is more relevant today than ever.
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Rebecca L. Davis
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Made By History
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July 19, 2024
How Judy Blume’s "Deenie" Helped Destigmatize Masturbation
On self-pleasure and sex education in children's literature.
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Rachelle Bergstein
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Literary Hub
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July 16, 2024
‘The Dred Scott of Our Time’
The Supreme Court has invested the presidency with quasi-monarchial powers, repudiating the foundational principle of the rule of law.
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Sean Wilentz
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New York Review of Books
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July 4, 2024
In Need of a New Myth
Myths to explain American history and chart a path to the future once helped to bind the country together. Today, they are absorbed into the culture wars.
by
Eric Foner
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London Review of Books
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June 26, 2024
The Crack-Up
John Ganz’s “When the Clock Broke” renders the signal political battles of the present in an entirely new light.
by
John Ganz
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Chris Lehmann
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The Baffler
on
June 21, 2024
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