Schweitzer Wall

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<div class="at-above-post-homepage addthis_tool" data-url="https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/essays/doesnt-love-wall/"></div><p>By <a href="https://lareviewofbooks.org/contributor/ivy-schweitzer/">Ivy Schweitzer</a></p>
<p>If a single symbol for the Trump presidency can stand the test of popular imagination, his proposed wall for the U.S. border with Mexico might be the strongest contender. It can look however you want to picture it because it will never get built. Last month, Trump suggested the fantasy wall be decked out with solar panels to earn a little money.   <a href="https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/essays/doesnt-love-wall/#more-4669" class="more-link">Read more</a></p>
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Who Doesn&#8217;t Love a Wall?

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<div class="at-above-post-homepage addthis_tool" data-url="https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/essays/friendship-civic-democratic-practice/"></div><p>By <a href="https://lareviewofbooks.org/contributor/ivy-schweitzer/">Ivy Schweitzer</a></p>
<p>A rupture in friendship seems to be a national disease since Trump’s ascendance, even though we are constantly urged to embrace civility, to talk and listen to each other, especially across differences of racial, ethnic, and class identity. <a href="https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/essays/friendship-civic-democratic-practice/#more-3822" class="more-link">Read more</a></p>
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Friendship as Civic Democratic Practice

Ivy Schweitzer is a Professor of English at Dartmouth College and author of <em>Perfecting Friendship: Politics and Affiliation in Early American Literature. </em>She is a Public Voices Fellow.