Current Events that Relate to History

For Henry David Thoreau, it is only as strangers that we can see each other as the bearers of divinity we really are.

The push to make students into customers incentivizes faculty to seek visibility through controversy rather than through traditional scholarly achievement.

During World War II, the law justified the imprisonment of thousands like Heidi Gurcke Donald.

Mahmoud Khalil’s case is eerily similar to that of the L.A. Eight when students were targeted not because of any criminal activity but because of their speech.

Executive trade power has gone too far.

Trampling rights, imposing tariffs, gobbling up others’ territories. Trump is imitating his role models to a T.

How Americans through the years have approached the thorny questions of identifying who the government is obliged to help and how such assistance should be funded and distributed.