Wilentz is by no means a Bernie Sanders Democrat. When Bill Clinton was in the White House, the historian defended the president against charges that he was insufficiently liberal and got him to ...

Princeton historian Sean Wilentz argues majority rule, the foundation of democracy in the United States, is being deliberately undermined. The tension over majority rule and minority rights dates ...

Historian Sean Wilentz had a wonderful op-ed (“Constitutionally, Slavery Is No National Institution”) in the NY Times a few days ago, about what he properly refers to as the “myth” that ...

Mr. Wilentz, who published an erudite essay on the many factual errors in the 1619 Project, said Republicans have already exploited the divisive issue. “It’s a minefield,” he said. Advertisement ...

Sean Wilentz: We Are Witnessing the Degradation of Democracy Published Oct 15, 2016 at 4:00 AM EDT Updated Oct 21, 2016 at 12:32 PM EDT Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton debate at Washington ...

Sean Wilentz had picked up World Gone Wrong, a CD of traditional tunes that Dylan performed on ... Wilentz would be ensconced in Washington. “I don’t know where that comes from,” he ...

“Any of us from the progressive side of academia who runs into Sean Wilentz,” writes a leading Harvard political scientist, “should cross to the other side of the street and keep moving!” ...

In "The Politicians and the Egalitarians," Sean Wilentz argues for a partisan, strong-party U.S. government. Mickey Edwards likes the history, disagrees with News ...

Sean Wilentz on Obama and Substance. Published Aug 22, 2008 at 8:00 PM EDT Updated Mar 13, 2010 at 5:01 PM EST. By Sean Wilentz . ... (on the 45th anniversary of the March on Washington) ...

The title of Sean Wilentz's book grandly proclaims 1974 to 2008 as the Age of Reagan. ... He wrote this for the Washington Post Book World, where it first appeared. June 15, 2008.

Sean Wilentz is the George Henry Davis 1886 Professor of American History at Princeton University. Many, if not most, U.S. presidents have taken the nation’s history very seriously. A few, most ...

CAN SEAN WILENTZ READ? When last the nation heard from Princeton University historian Sean Wilentz, in November 2000, he was organizing a full-page New York Times advertorial in which various ...