Jake Lundberg

American writing instruction has always involved some level of torture. What happens when technology makes it easy?

By the mid–19th century, sycophants had replaced statesmen to do the bidding of the slaveholding oligarchy.

The idea of a “trans-national America” argued against forcing immigrants into an Anglo-Saxon mold.

Common Sense was subversive in 1776. Maybe its ideas are what we need now.

Trump has upended the national tradition of claiming, however hypocritically, that foreign intervention is not about power or profit.

America went to extraordinary lengths to throw off the rituals of monarchy. Why would we fall for royal trappings now?

Its consistency is its superpower.

James Garfield is often portrayed as a good man in an age of bad governance, but the real story is a little more complicated.