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AI Is an Anti-Primary Source Machine
Real voices from the past are threatened by chatbots designed to amplify — and ultimately become — the loudest voices in the room. -
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Regime Change
A coin featuring the likeness of President Trump doesn’t have many precedents in American history. The ancient Roman opponents of Julius Caesar could explain why. -
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How “History” Became Central at the Supreme Court
Originalists and historians use the past to accomplish very different tasks.
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Book ReviewFrancis Fukuyama’s Failures of Imagination
As he looks back on a life in ideas, he is able to see the flaws in his system. But he cannot take seriously the type of politics that might address them.The New Republic -
Book ReviewHow Defunding the Arts Wrought Civic Disintegration
What Was America?: Art, Culture, and Politics in the Bicentennial Era tackles United States’ most ambitious cultural project: the bicentennial.Art In America -
Q&ATrump Is Dusting Off an Old Blueprint for Disrupting Social Movements
The Church Committee showed that intelligence agencies targeted the left collectively, not as isolated movements.Hammer & Hope -
Book ReviewZombie Originalism
Samuel Alito’s efforts to revamp the conservative legal philosophy reveal that a new movement is ascendant.The Atlantic -
First PersonThe Man Beside Me
Twenty-five years ago, Anwar al-Awlaki and I served together as university chaplains. I’m still trying to understand who he was then.Arc: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera -
Book ReviewLiving, Laughing, Buying, and Voting
Two new books take on the history of American evangelical women’s cultural and political power.Drafting The Past -
exhibitNative Pasts
This exhibit showcases the cultural, political, and environmental histories of American Indians, from ancient civilizations to contemporary activism.