In the Tradition of Liberty.
In the Tradition of Liberty.
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Jacob Bruggeman
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What does it mean to be a liberal in America—and why has that label inspired both devotion and disdain? Kevin Schultz, historian and author of Why Everyone Hates White Liberals (Including White Liberals), argues that liberalism as we know it was not born in Jefferson’s era or Lincoln’s, but in the crucible of the Great…
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The Soviet space program is not remembered; it is misremembered. The statues of Gagarin rise like monoliths to a triumph that tells only half the story. In the West, we cast it as a sideshow to our own grand narrative: NASA, the moon, the Right Stuff. But the history of the Soviet space program, as…
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Free trade was foundational for the world order the U.S. and its allies designed as the Cold War waned in the late 1980s. At home, American politicians from Ronald Reagan to Bill Clinton touted trade liberalization as an engine growth and globalization that could lead to enduring peace. Intellectuals, pundits, and lookers-on were prone to…
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Nostalgia seems to be everywhere in politics today. On the left, communitarian movements and concepts like “degrowth” seem to search for a future informed by a human past that was more localized and in touch with the environment. Then too, policy proposals like those clustered in the “Green New Deal” explicitly harken back to the…
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In 1929, Albert Einstein sat for an interview with the Saturday Evening Post. Einstein’s work on general relativity and unified field theory won him a Nobel Prize in 1921 and captivated the public imagination. When the Post interviewer asked about the inner-workings of the physicist’s mind, Einstein replied: “I am enough of the artist to draw…
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Since at least the 1791 publication of the Life of Samuel Johnson, a pioneering biography of the English man of letters, scholars have debated the value of biography as a genre of history. Many writers and readers like the chronological order and narrative focus that biography usually imposes. Yet historians sometimes criticize biography for emphasizing individual…