I think people are beating each other up in the halls of Congress, as they did in the late 1850s.

I see a continuation of the populist outrage that prompted the Brexit and sparked the Bernie Sanders campaign.

Popular culture is simply a reflection of what the majority seems to want.

Ignorance and arrogance are a lethal combination. Nowhere do we see that more clearly among writers and performers who pontificate as historians when they know nothing about history.

Americans spend more money on Botox, face lifts and tummy tucks than on the age-old scourges of polio, small pox and malaria.

This is something that Donald Trump has been very effective at exploiting because throughout our history, one of the things that was important to galvanize the country against a perceived threat has been philology.

[People] are alike in a sense that the Bernie Sanders anger at Hillary Clinton was that she was a so-called progressive and yet had managed to make $125 million.