Walter Lippmann

Is media bias attributable to corporate power or personal psychology? Upton Sinclair and Walter Lippmann disagreed.

Walter Lippmann’s seminal work identified a fundamental problem for modern democratic society that remains as pressing—and intractable—as ever.

David Halberstam’s title The Best and the Brightest was steeped in irony. Did these presidential advisers earn it?

In the 1940s, scholars struggled over truth in reporting, the marketplace of ideas, and the free press. Their deliberations are more relevant than ever.

The United States wasn't filled with isolationists, and it wasn't exactly neutral before 1917.

The complex history, career, and legacy of one of America's most popular speakers and reformers.

AT&T’s early leaders used PR to sway public opinion, casting their monopoly as a public service and obscuring its political roots.

An essential new volume collects accounts of Japanese incarceration by patriotic idealists, righteous firebrands, and downtrodden cynics alike.

Might a world republic provide humanity with the tools to address the climate emergency, runaway artificial intelligence, and new weapons of mass extermination?

The view from nowhere came from somewhere.

Two differing explorations of post-WWII culture, politics, and ideals.

The crusade against civil liberties during World War I.

Lessons from the start of the Cold War.

Trump champions “law and order” while calling for the Constitution’s suspension. But there’s no tension between the two.

High-stakes testing has struggled with overt and implicit biases. Should it still have a place in modern education?

Felix Frankfurter warned that politicians, not the courts, should make policy.

The rise and fall of the WASP.

For American journalists abroad in the interwar period, it paid to have enthusiasm, openness, and curiosity, but not necessarily a world view.

A century ago, pundits, special interests, and politicians weighed in on what should and shouldn't be taught in history and social studies courses.

For decades, America’s governing elite caricatured sensible restraint in order to pursue geopolitical dominance and endless wars. At last the folly may be over.