The right stuff: I’ll miss my friend Tom Wolfe
To some, Tom Wolfe’s death might seem a greater loss for readers on the right wing of American culture and…
What was Donald Trump’s father doing at a notorious KKK rally in 1927?
The figure of Donald Trump looms over Sarah Churchwell’s new history of American national identity, which highlights the ugliest features…
Trying hard to be somebody in Trump’s America
For Horace Hopper, the half-breed protagonist of Willy Vlautin’s bleak new novel, essential truths come slowly, and usually too late…
Yes, Donald Trump is grotesque. But I will never vote for Hillary Clinton
And that’s why I’ll never vote for Hillary
Alger Hiss: Tricky Dick’s scapegoat
In the more than 40 years since Richard Nixon resigned as president — disgraced as much by his inveterate lying…
The sadist who wrecked New York, and the last of the great biographers
John R. MacArthur on the bureaucratic titan who gratuitously bulldozed a great city and displaced and demoralised half a million of its inhabitants
The dark comedy of the Senate torture report
Like many journalists, I’m a bit of a know-it-all — when information is touted as ‘new’, especially in government reports,…
Clinton vs Bush — again
American politics looks increasingly like an oligarchy
Why is Doris Kearns Goodwin raking up old muck?
Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive Era are well-worn subjects for both professional and amateur historians, so it’s pertinent to ask…
