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David Levi Strauss
Three Kinds of Sun

I never saw my father as comfortable and relaxed as when he was holding a gun.

J. W. McCormack
‘An Ass-Backward Sherlock Holmes’

Over seven seasons on NBC, Columbo put a charming, shambolic gloss on the crime show. Now it has a new generation of imitators.

Ben Rhodes
American Descent

Donald Trump and right-wing strongmen like him around the world are using grievance-based nationalism to gain power. When does this sort of populism tip into fascism?

Christopher Benfey
Siding with Ahab

Can we appreciate Herman Melville’s work without attributing to it schemes for the uplift of modern man?

Free from the Archives

On August 25, 1945, John Birch, an American Baptist missionary and US Army Intelligence officer, was killed by Chinese Communist soldiers near Xuzhou. His death inspired the foundation of the John Birch Society, thirteen years later, by Robert Welch. In our June 23, 2022, issue, James Mann reviewed a biography of Welch, which traced the origins of the conspiracy-obsessed John Birch Society, connecting it to the far-right populism of the Trump era.

James Mann
The Birchers & the Trumpers

“It is clear that, just as the style of the Birchers outlasted Welch’s death and the collapse of the Soviet Union, so too the spirit of Trumpism will endure well beyond Trump’s lifetime…. Not long ago, on Fox News, Lara Logan, once a prominent CBS foreign correspondent, compared Anthony Fauci to Josef Mengele, the Nazi doctor who did experiments on prisoners at Auschwitz.”

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