Jeffrey Rosen, lawyer and U.S. Constitution scholar, has written the second book in a series of constitutional contemplations, “The Pursuit of Liberty: How Hamilton vs. Jefferson Ignited the Lasting ...
As America marks 250 years since the Declaration, Jefferson’s words have taken on an aura of moral clarity about equality, ...
Some food traditions are so indelible to American culture that the contributions of African American chefs have largely been ...
In the summer of 1774 Jefferson retreated to Monticello and wrote a secret plea meant to avert disputes with the British — a ...
Philip Hensher I have a theory that Mick Herron’s Slow Horses novels are an ingenious variation on Shakespeare’s Henry ...
This was never going to last. Such seemingly stable orders never do. The centuries-long history of capitalism shows that ...
Black theology in the Americas begins here: not in pulpits or printed tracts, but in the survival strategies of the displaced. Its earliest witnesses show that theology is not an abstract system but a ...
Socialist Zohran Mamdani’s victory Tuesday has put the Democrats in the unenviable position of having to decide what their ...
In We the People, Jill Lepore argues the Constitution isn’t the parchment paper, but the evolving democratic imagination of the people.
Slave owners tried very hard to justify themselves. In the early years of the 19th century, wave after wave of preposterous ...
One of the vessels, “Poem Jar,” features hints of Drake’s financial exploitation and forced separation from a woman believed ...
An excerpt from "Don’t Let Nobody Turn You Around" on family history, gospel music, and the great Christian legacy of the ...