Elites’ Long War Against the ‘Deplorables’

Christopher Lasch warned that America’s new elite had become detached from its roots—The Revolt of the Elites foretold our divide.

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Finding Private Roy

By the late 1970s, when I attended public high school in rural, blue-collar Central New York, more and more teenagers were living with a divorced...

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God and Woman at Cornell

This essay is adapted from a public conversation at Cornell University with Elizabeth Lyon Hall, head of the COLLIS Institute for Catholic Thought...

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Stories In American History

Discover how Upstate New York helped shape America through abolition, suffrage, utopian communities, and the Second Great Awakening—stories that...

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The Roots of Our Political Violence

The righteous wrath of modern progressivism traces its origins to the scorched spiritual landscape of 19th-century rural New York

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Thoughts on a New American Literary Adventure

Discussing the exciting new project about upstate New York, its history, and its people.

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