Robert Wilson's most recent book is Barnum: An American Life. He was the editor of the Scholar for more than 17 years.
Robert Wilson
Watch This Space
by Robert Wilson | Tuesday, March 01, 2022
At 90
by Robert Wilson | Wednesday, December 01, 2021
Critical Thinking
by Robert Wilson | Wednesday, September 01, 2021
Interlude
by Robert Wilson | Wednesday, June 02, 2021
Slouching Toward Tyranny
by Robert Wilson | Monday, March 01, 2021
Unresolved
by Robert Wilson | Monday, December 07, 2020
Information Sickness
by Robert Wilson | Tuesday, September 01, 2020
Viral Days
by Robert Wilson | Tuesday, June 02, 2020
Autonomies
by Robert Wilson | Monday, March 02, 2020
A Million Kindnesses
Honoring Jim Lehrer, beloved newsman and friend
by Robert Wilson | Friday, January 24, 2020
A Capital Crime
by Robert Wilson | Monday, December 02, 2019
Revisionism Revised
by Robert Wilson | Tuesday, September 03, 2019
Looking Back
by Robert Wilson | Monday, June 03, 2019
Trials
by Robert Wilson | Monday, March 04, 2019
Illegals
by Robert Wilson | Monday, December 03, 2018
Speech
by Robert Wilson | Tuesday, September 04, 2018
Encounters
by Robert Wilson | Monday, June 04, 2018
Precedents
by Robert Wilson | Monday, March 05, 2018
Playing Chicken
by Robert Wilson | Monday, December 04, 2017
Common Sense
It’s time for police officers to start demanding gun laws that could end up saving their own lives
by Robert Wilson | Monday, February 29, 2016
Monuments to What?
by Robert Wilson | Tuesday, September 05, 2017
Breach of Faith
by Robert Wilson | Monday, June 05, 2017
Grace
by Robert Wilson | Monday, March 06, 2017
Consequences
by Robert Wilson | Monday, December 05, 2016
Virtue
by Robert Wilson | Tuesday, September 06, 2016
Animal Stories
by Robert Wilson | Monday, June 06, 2016
Multitasking
by Robert Wilson | Monday, February 29, 2016
Painkillers
by Robert Wilson | Monday, December 07, 2015
Solutions
by Robert Wilson | Monday, September 07, 2015
Findings: For Jacques Barzun on his 100th Birthday
by Robert Wilson | Saturday, December 01, 2007
The Aging Boom
by Robert Wilson | Monday, June 09, 2014
Departures
by Robert Wilson | Monday, June 08, 2015
Recalculating
by Robert Wilson | Thursday, August 25, 2011
Monkey Business
by Robert Wilson | Friday, December 07, 2012
Colorblind
by Robert Wilson | Friday, March 01, 2013
Strangers
by Robert Wilson | Monday, June 10, 2013
Profits and Loss
by Robert Wilson | Thursday, September 05, 2013
As Time Goes By
by Robert Wilson | Friday, December 06, 2013
The Violent Bear It Away
by Robert Wilson | Monday, September 08, 2014
All Wrapped Up
by Robert Wilson | Wednesday, December 10, 2014
Zip It
by Robert Wilson | Wednesday, March 04, 2015
On the Farm
by Robert Wilson | Tuesday, March 11, 2014
The Bard of Suburbia
John Updike’s obsession with ordinary life made him the writer by whom we came to know ourselves
by Robert Wilson | Tuesday, March 11, 2014
A Long Walk in the New World
Of 300 Spaniards sent to settle Florida, only four survived
by Robert Wilson | Saturday, December 01, 2007
Balancing Acts
by Robert Wilson | Saturday, December 01, 2007
Rattling with Implications
by Robert Wilson | Monday, September 01, 2008
Cornerstones
by Robert Wilson | Saturday, September 01, 2007
Eclogues
by Robert Wilson | Friday, September 01, 2006
Rest in Peace
by Robert Wilson | Friday, September 01, 2006
Veritas
by Robert Wilson | Thursday, September 01, 2005
Story Time
by Robert Wilson | Thursday, June 01, 2006
Truth or Consequences
by Robert Wilson | Wednesday, March 01, 2006
Fear Itself
by Robert Wilson | Wednesday, December 01, 2004
Plaint du Jour
by Robert Wilson | Tuesday, March 01, 2005
Presidents and Poets
by Robert Wilson | Tuesday, September 04, 2012
Watchers of the Skies
Heroes of British science, and the Romantic poets they inspired