Essayist Joseph Epstein received the National Humanities Medal in 2003. He is the author of many books, most recently In a Cardboard Belt! Essays Personal, Literary, and Savage (Houghton Mifflin).
Not just Torah and gefilte fish: A new film shows the complexity of life as a Jewish American.
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Supremely Contentious
The Transformation of “Advice and Consent”
By Meredith Hindley
Who Was Westbrook Pegler?
The original right-wing takedown artist
By David Witwer
The Strange Politics of Gertrude Stein
Was the den mother of modernism a fascist?
By Barbara Will
Friends of Rousseau
Some of the people he has influenced don't even realize it.
By Leo Damrosch
The Other Jefferson Davis
The U.S. Capitol, as we know it today, would never have existed without Jefferson Davis.
By Guy Gugliotta
