“To the sick the doctors wisely recommend a change of air and scenery. Thank Heaven, here is not all the world,” wrote Henry David Thoreau in the conclusion of Walden  Read more

It is 1966. A twenty-five year old Bob Dylan stands, beanpole frame and electric curls illuminated under spotlights, between the instruments of rock ‘n’ roll and his audience of baffled Read more

The following is a guest-post from Brad Baranowski, PhD student at the University of Wisconsin- Madison. “What photograph isn’t a still life?” Garry Winogrand Street photography is undergoing a renaissance Read more

The following is a guest post from Oliver Bateman, professor of American legal history at the University of Texas at Arlington. Carl Becker, whose long-overdue revival is discussed in greater Read more

In The Conservative Turn: Lionel Trilling, Whittaker Chambers, and the Lessons of Anti-Communism (2009), Michael Kimmage identified a philosophical turn away from the social and the political, towards the individual Read more

The following is a guest post from Brad Baranowski, a PhD student at the University of Wisconsin Madison. He is currently working on a dissertation on the revival of political Read more