Articles by Robert Zaller

The Trump presidency has now, courtesy of the Republican cabal in Congress and against all the history that has hitherto defined the office, entered its…

As the year 1000 AD approached, many in the Christian world expected the Second Coming. As the third millennium approached in 2000, there were also…

Suppose the Confederacy had won the Civil War. It was certainly not a given that it would be defeated, and, looking at the country today,…

What’s a university education for? I had my own answer for it when I was getting mine, namely that it was an opportunity to dip…

The Constitution guarantees the right of free speech. That’s only the beginning of the story. People and institutions try to shut us up all the…

Donald Trump returned recently from his 12-day Asian trip, delighted to have been generally wined, dined and humored, while the Chinese were gleefully stepping up…

This Nov. 7 saw, by the Gregorian calendar, the 100th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution. By any measure, it was the most important political event…

Putting up a statue to Frank Rizzo in a plaza named after Tom Paine wasn’t as bad as putting up a statue of the Devil…

We thought we knew what there was to know about the 2016 election. Then it turned out that we didn’t. Now it seems increasingly clear…

We live in a deeply, perhaps uniquely dangerous moment. The Western imagination has been haunted for two millennia by the idea of apocalypse — of…