Robert Wilson

Robert Wilson’s first novel, The Love You Take, will be published in the fall of 2025. He is the author of biographies of Clarence King, Mathew Brady, and P. T. Barnum. He was the editor of the Scholar for more than 17 years.

Information Sickness

By Robert Wilson | Tuesday September 1, 2020

Viral Days

By Robert Wilson | Tuesday June 2, 2020

Autonomies

By Robert Wilson | Monday March 2, 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 2, 2019

Revisionism Revised

By Robert Wilson | Tuesday September 3, 2019

Looking Back

By Robert Wilson | Monday June 3, 2019

Trials

By Robert Wilson | Monday March 4, 2019

Illegals

By Robert Wilson | Monday December 3, 2018

Speech

By Robert Wilson | Tuesday September 4, 2018

My First Novel

By Robert Wilson | Thursday October 16, 2025

A Career in the Arts

By Robert Wilson | Monday June 2, 2025
Old Christ Church in Alexandria. Virginia, attended by General Robert E. Lee in his youth and pictured here in 1911 (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign/Wikimedia Commons)

Divided Providence

By Robert Wilson | Thursday January 23, 2025

Notes and Outtakes

By Robert Wilson | Thursday June 1, 2023

Watch This Space

By Robert Wilson | Tuesday March 1, 2022

At 90

By Robert Wilson | Wednesday December 1, 2021

Critical Thinking

By Robert Wilson | Wednesday September 1, 2021

Interlude

By Robert Wilson | Wednesday June 2, 2021

Slouching Toward Tyranny

By Robert Wilson | Monday March 1, 2021

Unresolved

By Robert Wilson | Monday December 7, 2020

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