Jim Sleeper

When Immigrants Were Welcomed

Congress has failed immigrants again. But in the 1920s, this plan quieted xenophobes and nurtured new Americans.

Eyes Off the Prize


A Tyranny Years in the Making

What results when the market obliterates the civic square? Trump.

The Self-Flattering Assumptions Behind Stacy Schiff's "The Witches"

The Pulitzer Prize-winning Schiff and her researchers parachuted into the Puritan world bringing nothing but the current fashionable, fixed, and self-serving idea of Puritans as sanctimonious scourges and prigs.

Our Puritan Heritage

Ever since Mencken, the Puritans have had a terrible reputation. They deserve a better legacy, and it's time we rediscovered it.