Is Gone with the Wind to blame for Trumpism?
Selfish, acquisitive, ignorant and vain, Gone with the Wind’s heroine not only resembles Donald Trump – she may even be his role model, says Greg Garrett
A keepsake – and to-do list – of Europe’s greatest cathedrals
In his new book on Europe’s cathedrals, Simon Jenkins begins with the claim that the greatest among them are our…
The complex character of Tricky Dick
In this Age of Trump, as we cast about for some moment in American history that might help us make…
James Baldwin’s radicalism was part Marxist, part Christian
Great biographies try to answer questions about the complicated relationship between their subjects’ inner life and outer workings. How did…
Sympathy for literature’s least unheroic characters
Whether we see the primary cause as being postmodernism (for decades we’ve been told that our master narratives no longer…
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Which comes first, the events or the zeitgeist? Peter Biskind examines pop culture
Those who study culture — or think about public policy in relation to it — often wrestle with the classic…
