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.

    10 minutes
    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.

    26 minutes
    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.”

    4 minutes
  • 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.

    6 minutes
  • 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.”

    4 minutes