MADE IN AMERICA

As I compose this sentence, Donald Trump appears beleaguered: thrashing about trying to escape being labeled Loser of the Iran War, facing basement-level approval numbers, seeing Jeffrey Epstein’s ghost over his shoulder, and being booed in his hometown s…

Mathew Pinsker’s new book, Boss Lincoln: The Partisan Life of Abraham Lincoln, brings a useful perspective to the Lincoln literature—the Library of Congress lists at least 1,000 Lincoln biographies—and to our contemporary politics.

In the midst of his excursion (or, avows Hegseth, his crusade) against Iran, Donald Trump took a break to post a video of a Haitian immigrant beating a woman to death.

[I am re-posting this item with the full text instead of sending readers to The Dispatch, where it appears here.]

FDR Signs Social Security Act, 1935 The 20th century changed much of the American way of life, but the largest change came in Americans’ personal security, their and their families’ safety from life’s hazards.

In America today, there are conservative and liberal jeans (Levi Strauss versus Wrangler), beer (Heineken versus Coors), and footwear (Birkenstocks versus cowboy boots).

This post takes a sideways glance at the field of personality psychology.

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Note to readers.

This essay was first published by The Dispatch on March 10, 2025.