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April 22, 2022
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Jedediah Britton-Purdy
Tocqueville’s Uneasy Vision of American Democracy
American government succeeded, Tocqueville thought, because it didn’t empower the people too much.
February 28, 2017
Magazine
Jesse Walker
All the President’s Phantoms
Trump isn’t the first conspiracy theorist in chief—just the most shameless.
March 25, 2016
Joshua Kendall
Have We Ever Had a President Like Donald Trump?
Yes, we have—but you have to go back to the nineteenth century.
December 17, 2012
James Traub
The Ambassador Wears Prada: Why Anna Wintour is Perfectly Qualified to be a Diplomat
August 20, 2012
Rachel Wiseman
The Unabridged (But Sadly Unillustrated) History of Political Skinny-Dipping
October 26, 2011
Sean Wilentz
The Mirage
The long and tragical history of post-partisanship, from Washington to Obama.
March 17, 2011
Gordon S. Wood
The Company Of Giants
July 12, 2010
David Rieff
First, Do No Harm
June 22, 2010
Lawrence F. Kaplan
Welcome to Entanglements
October 9, 2006
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Against the veto.
April 7, 2003
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