Eric Rauchway

Dec 4, 2024 | the-tls.co.uk | John T. McGreevy |Kyle Burke |Lawrence Douglas |Eric Rauchway

Jackson Lears’s new collection confirms his status as an enduring presence in American intellectual life. Written over the course of forty years, these essays address figures as diverse as the nineteenth-century historian Henry Adams and the frequent Democratic Party presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan, and topics ranging from the contemporary university to American foreign policy. They invite readers to reflect on a distinguished career.

Oct 23, 2024 | the-tls.co.uk | Lawrence Douglas |Eric Rauchway |Sarah Baxter |James Robins

In December 2022 Donald Trump blithely called for the “termination” of the Constitution, a comment that predictably triggered outrage and disbelief. In No Democracy Lasts Forever: How the Constitution threatens the United States, Erwin Chemerinsky suggests that the former, and possibly future, president might be on to something. Chemerinsky, the dean of Berkeley’s law school and a prominent constitutional scholar, is hardly a Trump supporter.

Oct 23, 2024 | thebulwark.com | Eric Rauchway

DONALD TRUMP HAS BEEN WAXING nostalgic about the 1890s these past few weeks. “Our country,” he says of that decade, “was probably . . . the wealthiest it ever was because it was a system of tariffs.” His love of the era has become so pronounced that it’s now a fixture of his stump speech, meant to defend the massive tariffs now central to the economic platform he’s promising in a second term.

Oct 9, 2024 | the-tls.co.uk | Eric Rauchway

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