Arthur Schlesinger Jr.

On the 50th anniversary of RFK's death, a glimpse inside one of his closest relationships.

What was Arthur Schlesinger’s “vital center”?

When J.F.K. ran for President, a team of data scientists with powerful computers set out to model and manipulate American voters. Sound familiar?

How one of America's original Bernie Bros became an outspoken critic of the left.

What we can learn from liberal anti-communists.

Revisiting Holfstadter's "paranoid style" in the era of Trump.

A new biography of Andrew Jackson recounts a bloody history, and reveals disturbing parallels between the 1830s and the Trump era.

A new history of the CPUSA reads like a Cold War throwback.

Are we doomed to repetition? It’s something I worry about.

For decades, Kissinger kept the great wheel of American militarism spinning ever forward.

The actual history of New Deal policies provides little evidence that it was a rollicking success.

A left that is ambivalent about liberalism can still seek to engage it.

The standoff 60 years ago has newfound relevance for handling the Ukraine crisis today.

Two centuries of New England intellectual history through the lives and ideas of people who are memorialized there.

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

The transcendentalists thought all human inspiration was divine, all nature a miracle.

The beloved musical’s creator struggled to find a place between left and center.

A short history of a made-up constitutional doctrine that gives presidents too much power.

Today's centrists are a hot mess.

A new history charts the forgotten ways the social politics of the Roosevelt years transformed the United States.