Lincoln in Hollywood, from Griffith to Spielberg
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Blood and the Ballad: Bob Dylan’s Macabre New Album
Efficacy and Democracy
Before 2013 begins, catch up on the best of 2012. From now until the New Year, we will be re-posting some of The New Republic’s most thought-provoking pieces of the year. Enjoy. The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Passage of PowerBy Robert A. Caro (Knopf, 712 pp., $35) I. READ MORE >>
The Mirage
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20 Years Later: How Bill Clinton Saved Liberalism From Itself
October 3rd marks the twentieth anniversary of Bill Clinton’s announcement of his candidacy for the presidency. The distance of time permits some perspective on what Clinton was attempting to do when he set out on his quest. READ MORE >>
Above and Beyond
Live By the Movement, Die By the Movement
George Steinbrenner (1930–2010)
States of Anarchy
The Return of Ulysses
No great American has suffered more cruelly and undeservedly at the hands of historians than Ulysses S. Grant. The dominating influence of pro-Southern historians early in the twentieth century—an influence that tainted scholarship on the Civil War for decades—helps to explain Grant’s abysmal reputation. But it does not explain Grant’s fate in full, nor why the vilification of the man has continued into our own time. READ MORE >>
