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Jessica Riskin

Jessica Riskin is a history professor at Stanford University, where she teaches courses in European intellectual and cultural history and the history of science. She is the author, most recently, of The Restless Clock: A History of the Centuries-Long Argument Over What Makes Living Things Tick (2016).

I’m Not a Conservative, But Please Stop Calling Trumpism “Conservative”

Trump may finally be going, at least for now, but Trumpism is here to stay. So, let’s be careful what we call it, which shapes how we understand it. Each time a commentator refers to Trumpism as “conservative” — probably hundreds ...