Skinner owed much of his subsequent academic fame to “Meaning and Understanding in the History of Ideas,” an astonishing broadside, published in 1969, against historians of political thought ...

What If the Political Pendulum Doesn’t Swing Back? The Cycles of American History foresaw American voter dealignment, and an electronic age that would see voters prioritize personality over ...

The attacks on two Democratic Minnesota state lawmakers at their homes are the latest in a grim and alarming surge of U.S. political violence.