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Does Xi Jinping Really Think China is Athens and the US is Sparta? And is Trump Getting Any of This?
Andrew Bayliss Wonders Why the Chinese Leader Keeps Bringing Up the “Thucydides Trap”?
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Andrew Bayliss
| May 22, 2026
America’s First War on Drugs Was Also a War on Jazz
Lisa E. Davis on the Historical Anti-Black Crusade of Law Enforcement and the White Cultural Establishment
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Lisa E. Davis
| May 22, 2026
What Happens When Billionaires Control the Media?
Nick Romeo Looks to Aldous Huxley and Gore Vidal for Clues About Where We’re Headed
By
Nick Romeo
| May 21, 2026
“Faithless and Foolish.” How a Young George Washington Failed Upward Into an Unpaid Internship
H.W. Brands on the Early Career of Our First President
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H.W. Brands
| May 20, 2026
On Copaganda, Pinkwashing, and the Time I Almost Became an NYPD Cop
Steven W. Thrasher Examines the Alluring Idea of the “Good Black Cop”
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Steven W. Thrasher
| May 19, 2026
On Authenticity, Acquisition, and the Secret Lives of Objects
Nicole Cherubini and Natalie Lemle Discuss the Stories That Ancient Artifacts Can Carry
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Nicole Cherubini
| May 19, 2026
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This Week in Literary History: James Joyce and Marcel Proust Meet for the First (and Only) Time
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Literary Hub
| May 18, 2026
What’s Next For Nation-States? On the Past, Present and Future of the World As We Know It
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Rana Dasgupta
| May 18, 2026
Who to Blame For the Rise of the Yuppie? Investment Banks, Obviously
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Dylan Gottlieb
| May 15, 2026
The Turk and The Whore, America’s First Reality TV Couple (c. 1630)
Alan Mikhail on the Early Origins of the American Family Who Settled in What We Now Know as New York
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Alan Mikhail
| May 14, 2026
When the Librarians Fought the Archivists Over Who Gets the Declaration of Independence
Michael Auslin on the Final Battle to Control the Declaration of Independence
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Michael Auslin
| May 13, 2026
On the Early—and Unlikely Friendship—of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
Jim Rasenberger Considers the Early Congressional Alliance of the Revolutionary War
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Jim Rasenberger
| May 13, 2026
On the Particular Joys of Etymology and Polyglot Prose
Geoffrey D. Morrison on Learning and Teaching Languages As a Fiction Writer
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Geoffrey D. Morrison
| May 12, 2026
On the Death of Branwell Brontë and the Shadow of Grief It Cast Upon His Literary Family
Deborah Lutz Considers the Impact of a Brother’s Absence
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Deborah Lutz
| May 12, 2026
How Middle Management Made the Modern World
Henry Snow on the Early Days of Worker Management as We Know It Today
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Henry Snow
| May 12, 2026
When a 15-Year-Old Martin Luther King Jr. Confronted Jim Crow on a Train
Lerone Martin on Segregation Aboard the Southern Railway
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Lerone Martin
| May 11, 2026
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Beau L'Amour
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