Jim Sleeper, a writer and teacher on American civic culture and politics, is a lecturer in political science at Yale and the author of The Closest of Strangers: Liberalism and the Politics of Race in New York (W.W. Norton, 1990) and Liberal Racism (Viking, 1997; Rowman & Littlefield, 2002).
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES

How Hollow Speech Enables Hostile Speech, and What to Do About It
Jim Sleeper considers the commercial and legal underpinnings of “hate speech.”...

Henry Kissinger and the Coming Imbalance of Power
Neither Western Cold Warriors nor Russians have accepted Henry Kissinger’s “principles.” Does he himself truly believe in them?...
