A Human Ranking System Intelligence testing would not arise until the 20th century, and the abbreviation “IQ” in 1922, but an early metric of intelligence was...
I consider Lasch the American counterpart to Hannah Arendt, the German Jewish political philosopher whose powerful mind synthesized the pathologies of the first half of the...
Kevin Young, the director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, is stepping down after four years in the role, the museum...
The recent visit by Vice President JD Vance, his wife, Usha, and the national security adviser Michael Waltz to the U.S. military base in Greenland may...
Leaders at the National Endowment for the Humanities have informed employees that the Trump administration is demanding deep cuts to staff and programs at the agency,...
When President Trump issued an executive order claiming that the Smithsonian Institution had “come under the influence of a divisive, race-centered ideology,” he singled out a...
At airports and land borders across the country, tourists and other visitors coming to the United States have reported being caught up in the Trump administration’s...
What’s remarkable, in retrospect, is not that she and 248 other noncitizens were sent away, but that it took more than 30 years of agitation, dating...
The president has no direct role in appointing regents. But in the executive order, Mr. Trump called for Mr. Vance to work with the speaker of...
The current secretary of the Smithsonian, Lonnie G. Bunch III, was the founding director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, who...
