Not Just the First Amendment.
Teaching the History of Free Speech and Censorship
Perspectives on History | September 12, 2024 | Opinion
Popular Rule.
Has the United States Ever Been a Democracy?
The Nation | January 3, 2023 | Book Review
Is Lying Actually a Good Thing in Politics?
Is there value in some looseness in the policing of the boundaries around truth and lies?
Knight First Amendment Institute | September 21, 2021 | Blog Post
In the Age of QANON
Have Americans become more conspiratorial?
The Nation | September 16, 2019 | Book Review
Truth and Consequences
Untruth has been spreading with new ease and abandon, and often to undemocratic effect.
The Hedgehog Review | Summer 2019 | Opinion
Lügen sind Teil der Demokratie
Die Welt und vielleicht auch die EU-Wahl werden von Fake-News bedroht. Das heißt aber nicht, dass wir in postfaktischen Zeiten leben. Es war vor 250 Jahren nicht anders.
Zeit Online (Germany) | May 9, 2019 | Opinion
Post-truth, de prequel
Voor Sophia Rosenfeld zijn alternatieve waarheden geen hedendaags verschijnsel, maar waren ze altijd al een bijproduct van democratie.
De Standaard (Belgium) | May 4, 2019 | Opinion
Historians: What Kids Should be Learning in School Right Now
What are the most important things young people should be learning in school today? Some of the nation’s top historians share their thoughts.
The Washington Post | November 22, 2018 | Opinion
The Egalitarians
Three new books on the founders explore the critical, if often contested, role equality has played in shaping the American imagination.
The Nation | April 5, 2017 | Book Review
The Limits of Choice
Betsy DeVos’s tone-deaf comments on historically black colleges and universities exposed the broader failings of the ideology of choice.
Dissent | March 10, 2017 | Opinion
A Radical History of Free Speech
With the rhetoric of free speech increasingly captured by the right, a new book tells the story of the radicals who first championed freedom of expression as a substantive political right.
Dissent | Fall, 2016 | Book Review
How to Die
Atul Gawande argues that physicians should focus care on the good life—including its very end.
The Nation | April 14, 2015 | Book Review
FREE to Choose?
How Americans have become tyrannized by the culture's overinvestment in choice.
The Nation | June 3, 2014 | Book Review
Liehards: On Political Hypocrisy
Hard truths about lying in politics.
The Nation | August 22, 2012 | Opinion
Cain’s Paine
The New York Times | November 11, 2011 | Opinion
Photo | Henri Matisse, “La Gerbe,” 1953
