Garry Wills –

Police hold an anti-war protester over the hood of a car in front of the Conrad Hilton in 1968 during the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. (baiduhai archive)

Garry Wills: Will this year’s DNC resemble Miami or Chicago in 1968?

July 7, 2024 at 5:00 a.m.

The 1968 RNC in Miami had what I later found missing in Chicago — authorities willing to listen to the community and an explosive situation ably defused.

Dear Mr. President-elect,

August 22, 2021 at 3:10 a.m.

Aleksandar Hemon (this name has been added to this text) Winner of the 2008 Heartland Prize for fiction, Hemon recommends these for the White House library "because they are all...

A passerby looks through the list of names of the Sept. 11 victims on a mural that was hung near the trade center site.

Expectations fall short –for better and worse

August 21, 2019 at 4:29 p.m.

In the days following the attack on the twin towers and the Pentagon, it was reasonable to expect certain things to happen. What is striking is that none of them...

WHITHER THE UNIVERSITY?

August 20, 2021 at 8:52 p.m.

We are in the midst of a knowledge revolution, one that affects all the ways we acquire, evaluate, store, and communicate almost everything we know. By means of this revolution's...

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