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There are women who back the KKK and Neo-Nazis, too by Arica L. Coleman Blaming 'Bad Dudes' Masks the Role of Women in the History of White Nationalism

America has forgotten the value of the humanities at the moment it needs them most by Katherine Pickering Antonova The challenges this country faces are a direct result of abandoning the humanities — and only the humanities can help us solve them.

The Worst 1st Year of Foreign Policy Ever by Melvyn P. Leffler Most presidents struggle in their first year as commander in chief. But Donald Trump got tired of winning before he started.

Mark Lilla Is Getting Identity Politics All Wrong by Joshua Zeitz Appealing to voters' tribal instincts is a time-honored American tradition. Because it works.

The Making and the Breaking of the Legend of Robert E. Lee by Eric Foner Whatever the fate of his statues and memorials, so long as the legacy of slavery continues to bedevil American society, it seems unlikely that historians will return Lee, metaphorically speaking, to his pedestal.

America Wasn’t Built for Humans by Andrew Sullivan Tribalism was an urge our Founding Fathers assumed we could overcome. And so it has become our greatest vulnerability.

James Burnham mutated from firebrand revolutionary to National Review co-editor by Alan Wald Today he is getting a second life all over the conservative press.

All-or-nothing politics belittles us all by Jonathan Zimmerman Its hallmarks are the complete denigration of your foes and a refusal to give any ground even when confronted by facts that don’t fit your point of view.

Is Diversity Tearing the United States Apart? by Victor Davis Hanson If America’s set of values becomes a pick-and-choose potpourri, there is no unity. And then America will certainly become yet another one of history’s casualties of diversity.

The United States Was Responsible for the 1982 Massacre of Palestinians in Beirut by Rashid Khalidi Washington had explicitly guaranteed their safety—and recently declassified documents reveal that US diplomats were told by the Israelis what they and their allies might be up to.

How the Vietnam War Broke the American Presidency by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick The war opened the credibility gap. What we’ve learned since has only widened it.