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Rick Perlstein
Rick Perlstein is the author of a four-volume series on the history of America’s political and cultural divisions, and the rise of conservatism, from the 1950s to the election of Ronald Reagan. He lives in Chicago.
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Can We All Get Along?
A Q&A with Eman Abdelhadi, a Palestinian University of Chicago professor, about encampments, dialogue, and mutual respect
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The New Anti-Antisemitism
The response to college protests against the war on Gaza exemplifies the darkness of the Trumpocene.
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A Republic, If We Can Keep It
There’ll be time enough to worry about presidential polling. Right now, more fundamental questions beckon.
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My Dinner With Andreessen
Billionaires I have known: Part One of a three-part series
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An Implausible Mr. Buckley
A new PBS documentary whitewashes the conservative founder of National Review.
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Fascist State
There are degrees of political insanity. After its recent Republican primary elections, Texas approaches a psychotic break.
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Joe Lieberman Not Only Backed Bush’s War; He Also Helped Make Bush President
A remembrance of this most feckless of Democrats
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The Swamp; or, Inside the Mind of Donald Trump
His orations about migrants are a pastiche of others’ golden oldies. Exhibit A: the lie that migrants are sent from prisons and mental institutions.
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‘Stay Strapped or Get Clapped’
How the media misses the story of companies seeking profit by keeping traumatized veterans armed and enraged