Madison Grant

A long-overdue excavation of the book that Hitler called his “bible,” and the man who wrote it.

In the age of Trump, Madison Grant's influential work of scientific racism takes on a new salience.

Modernization theory and the delusions of American strategy.

On Daniel Okrent's "The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics, and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America."

Why the Jim Crow-era debate between the African-American leader and a ridiculous, Nazi-loving racist isn’t as famous as Lincoln-Douglas.

Rigid racial codes in the early 20th century gained the admiration not only of many American elites, but also of Nazi Germany.

How a trio of Harvard-educated blue bloods led a crusade to keep the "undesirables" out and make America great again.

One hundred years ago, the U.S. Congress decided that there needed to be severe limits on who was coming into the country.

Today’s contentious immigration debate is the construct of one man’s effort to halt overpopulation.

Isaiah Bowman was one of the worst college presidents in American history.

Environmental radicalism, left and right.

Since 1892, the United States has deported more immigrants (over 57 million) than any other nation.

Until we grapple with our history, white supremacist terrorism will keep happening.

An expert on the white-power movement and the “great replacement” theory puts the act of terror in context.

Despite its universalist claims, the field is reckoning with a long legacy of racial exclusion.

Recent works inspired by his fiction struggle to reckon with his racist fantasies.

Misunderstood historical imagery at the January 6 Capitol insurrection.

How a Gilded Age best seller shaped American race discourse.

Exposing the damned lies of three science pioneers.

A look at how the word, a surprisingly recent addition to the English lexicon, made its way into the dictionary.