sean wilentz

As a onetime academic, I’ve always been of two minds about the institution of tenure. In theory, it protects intellectual freedom. In practice, howeve...

“The past is another country,” wrote the late author Christopher Hitchens, “and it can be a big mistake to try to revisit or recapture it.” This is es...

WASHINGTON — There has been ferment among the literati since Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Many say that however well Dylan doe...