Jan 26, 2023
Our resident humanities scholar Clay Jenkinson considers the future of second generation elites in context. He thinks Prince Harry erred in writing his autobiography Spare and would have done well to emulate American Princess Alice - that is, Alice Roosevelt.
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Jan 21, 2023
Our resident humanities scholar Clay Jenkinson suggests that the poem best known for its placement at the base of the Statue of Liberty may have created a case of false advertising to migrants around the world. America’s incoherent immigration policy is caught between the competing instincts of “give me … your...
Jan 14, 2023
Our resident humanities scholar Clay Jenkinson puts the chaotic events in the U.S. House of Representatives in historical context, which were a sad reminder of how fraught and flummoxed our national politics are, and almost certainly a harbinger of the reign of craziness we can expect in the Republican Party for at...