- August 2020
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22nd Aug 2020
I can’t claim to know what Jake Auchincloss was thinking when he asked, 10 years ago, why it was acceptable…
- July 2020
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- June 2020
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28th Jun 2020
Earlier this month, The Washington Post ran a story that ended up destroying the life of a woman guilty of nothing more…
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3rd Jun 2020
There is a poignant irony in the death of Larry Kramer amid the ravages of a global plague. One of…
- February 2020
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22nd Feb 2020
In 1934, the year after Adolf Hitler assumed power, the American Civil Liberties Union published a pamphlet entitled Shall We Defend…
- December 2019
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28th Dec 2019
Lord Louis and Edwina Mountbatten were one of the most famous couples of the 20th century. “Dickie,” as he was…
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26th Dec 2019
Mel Boozer grew up in a series of homes without electricity. Graduating second in the 1963 class of Dunbar High,…
- November 2019
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7th Nov 2019
Before serving as undersecretary of state for public diplomacy and public affairs from 2013 to 2016, Richard Stengel edited Time,…
- September 2019
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9th Sep 2019
Review of The Journalist of Castro Street: The Life of Randy Shilts in the Washington Monthly.
- August 2019
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6th Aug 2019
The editor and publisher Michael Denneny was roughly thirteen when he first ogled the Spring 1957 cover of Physique Pictorial,…
About James
James Kirchick is a visiting fellow in the Center on the United States and Europe and Project on International Order and Strategy at the Brookings Institution. A widely published journalist, he is author of “The End of Europe: Dictators, Demagogues and the Coming Dark Age” (Yale, 2017), a correspondent for The Daily Beast, and a columnist for Tablet. He is at work on his second book, a history of gay Washington, D.C., for Henry Holt.
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