Essays by

Danielle Charette

Democracy’s Midlife Crisis

David Runciman is head of the department of politics and international studies at Cambridge University and host of the popular podcast Talking Politics. Danielle Charette […]

Freedom and Pleasure

Tocqueville’s observations on raising girls in the United States come with a cruel volte-face.

The Belle of Amherst

Critics have been trying to rescue Emily Dickinson from her Amherst attic for a long time.

Demagoguery and Poetry

Robert Penn Warren’s descriptions of life along the Cumberland River or the struggles of Jacksonian America demonstrate an anti-elitist esteem for his subject matter. And yet the impulse to write also reveals a profound dissatisfaction—and a political challenge.