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To the Editors: We appreciate Peter E. Gordon’s thoughtful review of Charisma and Disenchantment, our edition of Max Weber’s “vocation lectures” [NYR, June 11], but of...

If, like me, you’re a baby boomer who pleaded as a child to stay up with the big kids to watch The Twilight Zone, you might...

In Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation (2006), Jonathan Lear writes of the intellectual trauma of the Crow Indians. Forced to move in...

As a historian of the early American republic, I’ve been asked a lot recently whether the country has ever seen a period like the one we...

Political violence, especially around elections, has a long history in the United States. In the antebellum era, white nativist Protestants often rioted against Catholic immigrants because...

This song is dedicated, this song goes out, is for. I wrote it in a dream, the second-oldest song in the world. It’s about hours without...

In 1991 I went to Haiti looking for the past and discovered the future. President Jean-Bertrand Aristide—the “radical priest,” as the foreign press never tired of...

I am writing the biography of Morton Sobell, and would like to hear from anyone who knew him. David Evanier 917-671-7612 [email protected] Source : Query

After the election of 2018, the US Congress became the most racially and ethnically diverse it had ever been. The freshman class contained a record number...