For the Love of Glamour: American Aristocracy from Twain to Trump
Are people—and the United States—doomed to be the subalterns of the aristocrats?
Mark Edmundson is University Professor at the University of Virginia. His most recent book is The Age of Guilt: The Super-Ego in the Online World (2023).
Are people—and the United States—doomed to be the subalterns of the aristocrats?
The ritual of pickup basketball is a pocket of democracy as close as the local park.
Ideas wither when they aren’t challenged, and the greatest free speech problem in the United States may be on the left.
The first time you hear your beloved 10-year-old say motherfucker: well, on that day something changes. Why does it disturb us so?
Violence and grace; freedom and exploitation; glory and ignominy: terrible beauty — football is America now.
Their first single was released 50 years ago this month. Mark Edmundson was not a fan.