Fall 2024

Coming of age during the Vietnam War, I cut my cultural teeth on an exalted idea of intellectuals. They were the people who challenged the official pieties, especially the easy equation of power and virtue, the American civil religion that …

The real scandal in Washington is not Clinton’s sex life, but the government’s ability to pry into it. The real threat to the republic is not the lack of “character” in the Oval Office, but the erosion of privacy rights …