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How Could He Possibly Lose? On Samantha Barbas’s “Actual Malice”
Stephen Rohde discusses Samantha Barbas’s new book on free speech and civil rights, “Actual Malice: Civil Rights and Freedom of the Press in ’New York Times v. Sullivan.’”
History
"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." — George Bernard Shaw
A Not Completely Happy Warrior: On Samuel Freedman’s “Into the Bright Sunshine”
William Jones considers Samuel Freedman’s new biography of Hubert Humphrey, “Into the Bright Sunshine: Young Hubert Humphrey and the Fight for Civil Rights.”
Always a Radical: A Conversation with Barbara Winslow
Eleanor J. Bader speaks with Barbara Winslow about her new book “Revolutionary Feminists: The Women’s Liberation Movement in Seattle.”
Espionage Overreach: On Ralph Engelman and Carey Shenkman’s “A Century of Repression”
Stephen Rohde reviews Ralph Engelman and Carey Shenkman’s “A Century of Repression: The Espionage Act and Freedom of the Press.”
Poetry, Biography, and the Unknowable: On Two New Books About Phillis Wheatley
Hollis Robbins reviews Vincent Carretta’s “Phillis Wheatley Peters: Biography of a Genius in Bondage” and David Waldstreicher’s “The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet’s Journeys Through American Slavery and Independence.”
Nothing “Proto” About It: More on MIT Press’s New Radium Age Series
The pleasures of reading the titles from MIT Press’s new Radium Age series, writes historian of science Michael Gordin, lies in the science fiction genre not yet having congealed.
Buried in the Sand: On John Sturges’s “Bad Day at Black Rock” and Japanese America
Jonathan van Harmelen offers a historical account of the undersung, at times controversial, anti-racist western, John Sturges’s “Bad Day at Black Rock.”
One or More Asias?: On Nile Green’s “How Asia Found Herself”
Rana Mitter reviews Nile Green’s “How Asia Found Herself: A Story of Intercultural Understanding.”
The Banality of Heroism: Marek Edelman and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Samuel Tchorek-Bentall explores the career of Marek Edelman, hero of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
Close Ranks: On Three New Books Exploring African Americans, Patriotism, and the US Armed Forces
Randal Maurice Jelks reviews three books about the African American experience in war: Beth Bailey’s “An Army Afire: How the US Army Confronted Its Racial Crisis in the Vietnam Era,” Matthew F. Delmont’s “Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad,“ and Chad L. Williams’s “The Wounded World: W. E. B. Du Bois and the First World War.”
L.A. and the Birth of Car Culture: On Darryl Holter and Stephen Gee’s “Driving Force”
Gary Cross reviews Darryl Holter and Stephen Gee’s “Driving Force: Automobiles and the New American City, 1900–1930.”
A Medieval Age of Disruption: On Nicholas Morton’s “The Mongol Storm”
Nile Green reviews Nicholas Morton’s “The Mongol Storm: Making and Breaking Empires in the Medieval Near East.”
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