The Exit is the Entrance

The Exit is the Entrance

Essays on Escape

Lydia Paar (MFA ’19) joined the American workforce at 14, holding nearly 30 different jobs from 25 homes across eight states into adulthood. These essays explore her attempts to evade or transform the lower-middle-class American experience across varied cityscapes, towns, and in-between places;
The Coerced Conscience

The Coerced Conscience

The Coerced Conscience examines liberty of conscience, the freedom to live one’s life in accordance with the dictates of conscience, especially in religion. It offers a new perspective on the politics of conscience through the eyes of some of its most influential advocates and critics in Western history, John Milton, Thomas Hobbes, Baruch Spinoza, and […]
Still Needs Work

Still Needs Work

A novel

A novel by Ellen Barker, AB ’07, “Still Needs Work” is an irreverent look at the alien denizens of the tech world, the fraught business of mergers and acquisitions, and the parallel universe of job openings.
Against the Liberal Order

Against the Liberal Order

The Soviet Union, Turkey, and Statist Internationalism, 1919-1939

Samuel J. Hirst, AB ’04, writes a history of interactions between the interwar Soviet Union and early Republican Turkey. The book, which begins in the aftermath of World War I, documents a distinctly state-led international politics.
The United States of no states?

The United States of no states?

What would America look like if there were no state governments? Stephen H. Legomsky, the John S. Lehmann University Professor Emeritus at WashU Law, tackles that question in his new book, “Reimagining the American Union: The Case for Abolishing State Government,” published by Cambridge University Press.
Creating a federal government

Creating a federal government

Politicians often claim to know what kind of government the founders would have wanted. Presidential historian Peter Kastor was struck by the relative lack of scholarship around an obvious follow-up question: What kind of government did the founders actually create?
Play Harder

Play Harder

The Triumph of Black Baseball in America

An authoritative exploration of how Black Americans have shaped baseball from its emergence after the Civil War to the Negro Leagues and Jackie Robinson’s breaking of the color barrier, up to today’s game—by award-winning author Gerald Early in collaboration with the National Baseball Hall of Fame. No sport has been more associated with America’s sense […]
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