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Too many Americans are indifferent to their own history and know too little about it. This ignorance makes the present more baffling than it needs to be. Adam Hochschild has written a fine book about a grim period a century ago that has largely disappeared from national memory but seems painfully relevant to America in the 2020s. "American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracys Forgotten Crisis" describes vividly a time when racism, white nationalism, and anti-foreign...

Columns and reports made the case over the weekend that the midterms — now less than two months away — are pivotal to the future of our country.

Wars of choice are like playing with loaded dice — and the results can become disastrous both for the invader and the invaded alike.

Swashbuckling editors fall out of favor in a play-it-safe era.

By Elizabeth D. Samet

April 19, 2021 THE WASHINGTON POST – By eerie coincidence, I began reading William J Bernstein’s The Delusions of Crowds: Why People Go Mad in Groups in early January and was deep into it on January 6. I kept reading in the days that followed the unprecedented insurrection at the Capitol, putting the book aside occasionally to look at the scores of videos taken by participants before and during the rioting. ProPublica, the investigative news site, acquired more than 500 of these videos and...

Book World: Why false narratives so often trump reality Robert G. Kaiser, The Washington Post Feb. 26, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail "The Delusions of Crowds: Why People Go Mad in Groups" By William J. Bernstein - - - By eerie coincidence, I began reading William J. Bernsteins "The Delusions of Crowds: Why People Go Mad in Groups" in early January and was deep into it on Jan. 6. I kept reading in the days that followed the unprecedented insurrection at the Capitol, putting the book aside occasiona...