How Stalin Toyed With Mikhail Bulgakov
The author of The Master and Margarita faced a bewildering mixture of rewards and censorship.
The author of The Master and Margarita faced a bewildering mixture of rewards and censorship.
Friday A/V Club: One cable host's capacity for unearned smugness
McCullough didn't just build on academic historians' work—he filled a gap they left.
The creator of The Moth talks about why the past is never dead, especially in his new novel The Kingdoms of Savannah.
The "British by birth" and "Nigerian by blood" rapper and podcaster thinks Americans don't fully appreciate the freedom they have.
The Marine turned anti-imperialist had two very different legacies, but both clearly emerged from the same man.
Segregation-era racists tried to drive the Bruces away from their own beachfront property. When intimidation didn't work, they resorted to the power of the state.
Remembering the world’s first geneticist, and a tax protester to boot
Good intentions, bad results.
On the American right, populism has always been lurking in the shadows.
Raymond B. Craib's new book recounts how Michael Oliver repeatedly tried to create a new country with a government funded entirely by voluntary contributions.
Wiretapping and eavesdropping used to be the norm. Perhaps privacy was always an illusion after all.
Plus: Fentanyl copaganda, the perils of antitrust populism, a January 6 meme is born, and more...
His 2000 thesis on civil-rights-era Atlanta lifts passages from other people's work.
Tensions won’t simmer down until Americans stop fearing power in the hands of enemies.
The events of 2022 can be seen as another chapter in a very long story: Ukraine looking westward and seeking freedom while Russia slides deeper into autocracy.
Presidents once treated congressional authorization as a requirement for the U.S. to enter conflicts. What went wrong?
The political podcast uses relevant history to contextualize controversial current events.
Early cities' concentrated populations and burgeoning scale didn't spontaneously summon pharaonic god-kings or bureaucrats.
Republicans have thrived since Ronald Reagan granted amnesty to 2.7 million mostly Mexican illegal immigrants in 1986.
The author of Their Eyes Were Watching God defies easy political categorization.
Understanding state regulatory powers at the time of the founding.
The forgotten abortion politics of the pre-Roe era
As long as there have been laws, there have been attempts to silence people.
No moral judgment, just Viking honor, pagan ritual, and inevitable death.
Despite the recent win against Amazon and Joe Biden's full backing, Big Labor is fading because workers are making progress without unions.
The controversial Columbia neuroscientist, Air Force vet, and author of Drug Use for Grown-Ups believes deeply in life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
The maverick Columbia neuroscientist explains why America should embrace drug legalization for all.
Jeff Kosseff's The United States of Anonymous makes a strong case for letting people hide behind the First Amendment.
The author of the definitive history of Section 230 is back with a controversial new book, The United States of Anonymous.
Nikole Hannah-Jones' new book sidesteps scholarly critics while quietly deleting previous factual errors.
All that Civil War II talk is overblown—but that isn't the only sort of political violence to worry about.
The National Museum of Wales is suggesting that 19th-century innovations that enabled economic development are somehow tainted by slavery.
A new history of free speech argues the best way to defeat hate speech is by openly confronting it in the public square.
Politics is filled with words that mean different things in different mouths, but "neoliberalism" is an especially tangled case.
"At the core of libertarianism is the idea that people are assets."
Nearly 90 gag-order bills would ban schools from teaching the grisly particulars of American history. This activist is fighting against the censorship and for school choice.
Despite all the controversy it has courted, Woody Holton's newest book doesn't stray very far from other scholarly interpretations of the American Revolution.
Already abused for political purposes, the power of government shouldn’t be expanded based on lies.
"A future of bloodless global discipline is a chilling thing."
James T. Bennett's libertarian critique argues that noncommercial radio can be detached from the state—and that it's better that way.
China's economic reforms were bottom-up, not top-down.
The octogenarian columnist has a lot to say about happiness and history in the United States.
How Michel Foucault's encounters in Poland's heavily policed gay community informed his ideas
The Cuisine and Empire author dishes on the anti-French origins of Turkey Day, why she hates "organic" food, and the genius of Julia Child.
Forget Robin DiAngelo, Ibram X. Kendi, and The 1619 Project. Start with ending the drug war, says the Columbia University linguist.
There are five instances of the Treasury defaulting on the debt.
The New York Times columnist and Columbia University linguist on the "new religion" he says has "betrayed Black America."
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