The Architecture of Presidential Commemoration” surveys the history of presidential memorialization, a complicated tale.

In the meantime, pay attention. Look at everything. Even, and especially, when the prevailing attitude is to look away. Rachel Kushner is the author of, most recently, the novel “Creation Lake.” This ...

“ [Reinhold] Niebuhr was right: The art of politics consists of directing rationally the irrationalities of men. But when neither people nor leaders are willing to face reality, look out, ...

But students still have their own lives, their personal paths, inside of an era and within a structure of feeling, just as ...