The Paranoid Style in American Politics

Most important is the path pursued by my mother. She sustained herself by engaging socially, rather than battling politically or withdrawing stoically.

A new book shows just how porous the dividing line has been between the far right and mainstream conservatism.

Conspiracy theories like QAnon are ultimately a social problem rather than a cognitive one. We should blame politics, not the faulty reasoning of individuals.

Why did the historian come to fear the very movements he once would have celebrated?

An interview with Sean Wilentz on Library of America's new collection of Richard Hofstadter's works.

How a lurid 19th-century memoir of sexual abuse produced one of the ugliest features of American politics.

It had been around a long time before the Radical Right discovered it.