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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
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).
Articles
Democracy’s Concrete Court
The ritual of pickup basketball is a pocket of democracy as close as the local park.
Why Does Love Got to Be So Sad?
This piece appears in the LARB Print Quarterly Journal: No. 19, Romance To receive the LARB Quarterly Journal, become a member or purchase a copy...
Stone Walls and No Discussions
Ideas wither when they aren’t challenged, and the greatest free speech problem in the United States may be on the left.
On Shit: Profanity as Weltanschauung
The first time you hear your beloved 10-year-old say motherfucker: well, on that day something changes. Why does it disturb us so?
Football: The Lure of the Game
Violence and grace; freedom and exploitation; glory and ignominy: terrible beauty — football is America now.
Hate the Beatles!
Their first single was released 50 years ago this month. Mark Edmundson was not a fan.
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