Henry Agard Wallace (1888-1965) left his mark on what he memorably proclaimed the Century of the Common Man—as plant geneticist, entrepreneur, spiritualist, author, magazine editor, transformative secretary of agriculture under Franklin Roosevelt, and Roosevelt’s second vice president. To his admirers Wallace was a conviction politician who denounced segregation in front of Southern audiences and criticized

In The Identity Trap, Yascha Mounk, who teaches international affairs at Johns Hopkins, joins a number of eminent critics of the identitarian movement that has come to dominate both American academia and, increasingly, our political and social life. He differs from most such critics in two respects. First, while he is a professed “philosophical” liberal,

The annus mirabilis of 1989 was truly a marvelous year. Decades of Communist oppression ended with a chaotic series of events, leaving the members of the various politburos from Moscow to Berlin puzzled and the freed people euphoric. The Berlin Wall crumbled, the Communist border guards did not shoot, the Soviet Army did not take