Articles by Robert Zaller

In his first year in office, Richard Nixon coined the phrase “silent majority” to indicate the many who, he contended, quietly supported his continued prosecution…

America’s retreat from its century and a half commitment to public education has now become a flight. There has not been a greater betrayal of…

During the 2016 presidential election 42 percent of voters, a plurality of the country, identified themselves as political independents. That sounds like the makings of…

Two iconic American corporations, Starbucks and Facebook, have been getting raked over the coals lately. Facebook’s founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, took what passed for…

You have seen this movie before. Someone provokes the United States. The country retaliates, firing off missiles from a safe distance. The craters they leave…

This Nov. 7 saw, by the Gregorian calendar, the 100th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution. By any measure, it was the most important political event…

Putting up a statue to Frank Rizzo in a plaza named after Tom Paine wasn’t as bad as putting up a statue of the Devil…

We thought we knew what there was to know about the 2016 election. Then it turned out that we didn’t. Now it seems increasingly clear…

We live in a deeply, perhaps uniquely dangerous moment. The Western imagination has been haunted for two millennia by the idea of apocalypse — of…