Robert Wilson

Robert Wilson's most recent book is Barnum: An American Life. He was the editor of the Scholar for more than 17 years.

Notes and Outtakes

Good writing never gets old

by Robert Wilson | Thursday, June 01, 2023

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

by Robert Wilson | Tuesday, September 01, 2009

A Walk Around the Block

by Robert Wilson | Friday, December 01, 2006

Reality Revisited

by Robert Wilson | Thursday, March 01, 2007

History Revisited

by Robert Wilson | Friday, June 01, 2007

Models

Models

by Robert Wilson | Saturday, March 01, 2008

Unpulled Punches

by Robert Wilson | Sunday, June 01, 2008

Two Cents

by Robert Wilson | Monday, December 01, 2008

Updike at Rest

by Robert Wilson | Sunday, March 01, 2009

War Stories

by Robert Wilson | Monday, June 01, 2009

The End of Things

by Robert Wilson | Tuesday, September 01, 2009

Security Check

by Robert Wilson | Tuesday, December 01, 2009

Depth Wish

by Robert Wilson | Monday, March 01, 2010

Earth Time

by Robert Wilson | Tuesday, June 01, 2010

Beyond the Genteel

by Robert Wilson | Wednesday, December 01, 2010

Memory and Forgetting

by Robert Wilson | Thursday, March 01, 2012

War, Civil and Otherwise

by Robert Wilson | Wednesday, March 02, 2011

Hands Out

by Robert Wilson | Friday, June 01, 2012

Printing Money

by Robert Wilson | Wednesday, November 30, 2011

The New Look

by Robert Wilson | Wednesday, September 01, 2010

Departures

by Robert Wilson | Friday, June 03, 2011