"The early twentieth-century advent of aerial bombing made successful evacuations essential to any war effort, but ordinary people resented them deeply. Based o

A renowned political philosopher updates his classic book on the American political tradition to address the perils democracy confronts today. The 1990s were a

On American democracy

Originally published in hardccover in 2015 by Riverhead Books.

The Progressive Era, a few brief decades around the turn of the last century, still burns in American memory for its outsized personalities: Theodore Roosevelt,