Garry Wills, who just turned 90, looks unencumbered by history these days. He lives in a swanky building for seniors in Evanston.
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On losers, fear, the Supreme Court, the end of the FDR era, antisystemic times, and words without consequences.
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Everybody told everybody early in this year's presidential campaign (during what was called Trump Summer) that we had never seen anything so sinisterly or...
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Born in Italy, Lydia dreaded U.S. authorities. Today's migrants should not have to share that fear.
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How the Supreme Court's most recent decision on presidential immunity betrayed claims of originalism.
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The 1968 RNC in Miami had what I later found missing in Chicago — authorities willing to listen to the community and an explosive situation...
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Garry Wills. For decades Justice Clarence Thomas has received lavish gifts from Republican megadonor Harlan Crow. What's Crow been getting...
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Studs Terkel, who died in 2008, is best remembered, if at all, by Americans at large for his popular and prize-winning books of oral history—nine of them,...
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We are the disgrace of nations because we can't stop killing our children—along, of course, with their teachers, relatives, and innocent...
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Matt and Sam welcome historian Erik Baker onto the podcast to discuss Garry Wills's blistering critique of the national security state and unaccountable...
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