Mar 26, 2023
In another in an occasional series of articles Governing is publishing about some of the less well-known presidents of the United States, our resident humanities scholar Clay Jenkinson takes a fresh look at the mixed legacy of President Benjamin Harrison - the country's 23rd - who paved the way for Teddy...
Mar 18, 2023
Our resident humanities scholar Clay Jenkinson laments that we thought we were immune to the human condition. We were wrong.
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Mar 11, 2023
Our resident humanities scholar Clay Jenkinson reminds us that the idea of secession did not originate with Marjorie Taylor Greene. It has been tried before. The question we need to ask is whether we are really ready to see what a Red and Blue America would look and act like.
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Mar 5, 2023
Our resident humanities scholar Clay Jenkinson reflects on former President Jimmy Carter's Malaise speech. Seared in America’s collective memory, even pilloried in popular culture, the speech was delivered 44 years ago. It was both earnest and tone deaf. The then president made the deliberate choice to tell the...