Preamble Feast of Fools By Lewis H. Lapham How American democracy became all about the rule of money. More
Essay Working the Room By Michael Phillips-Anderson Presidential humor from Lincoln to Kennedy to Reagan. More
Essay The Woman Who Would Be King By Kara Cooney The extraordinary rise and reign of Hatshepsut. More
Essay Tales of Brave Ulysses By H.W. Brands Ulysses S. Grant was overlooked by historians and underestimated by contemporaries. H.W. Brands reevaluates Grant’s presidency. More
Essay Between the Lines By Robert Boyers A look at the crossroads where literature and politics meet, and the relationship between art and ideas. More
Essay The Great Rift By Jeffrey Gettleman Jeffrey Gettleman on the 2007 Kenyan election crisis, and why in Kenya all politics is tribal. More
Essay Trial by Fire By Anthony Grafton Hot gospelling preacher or savvy political operator? Reexamining the life and times of Girolamo Savonarola. More
