Tag: Fox News

  • Nation & World

    Dark lessons of Jan. 6 Capitol assault

    One year later, Harvard Kennedy School historian Alexander Keyssar reflects on the January 6 insurrection.

    Trump supporters scale west wall of the the U.S. Capitol Jan. 6.
  • Nation & World

    Flight from reason

    In his new book, “How America Lost Its Mind: The Assault on Reason That’s Crippling Our Democracy,” Thomas Patterson looks at the rejection of logic and reason in American political life and how it threatens Democracy.

    Thomas E. Patterson.
  • Nation & World

    A scholar’s brush with religious ire

    Reza Aslan, whose book “Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth” soared on the best-seller lists after an infamous Fox News interview last summer, spoke at Harvard Divinity School, saying that while he is a Muslim, he also is “a follower of Jesus.”

  • Nation & World

    Your grandparents’ Tea Party

    To conservatives, the Tea Partiers are patriots; to liberals, they’re a scourge on progress and civil society. Theda Skocpol, Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology, used different terms to describe the activists to undergraduates: grandma and grandpa.

  • Nation & World

    To the heart of a movement

    Professor Jill Lepore, a contributor to The New Yorker, examines the movement behind the tea party in “The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party’s Revolution and the Battle over American History.”