Robert Wilson, Author at The American Scholar

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.

Playing Chicken

By Robert Wilson | Monday December 4, 2017

Monuments to What?

By Robert Wilson | Tuesday September 5, 2017

Breach of Faith

By Robert Wilson | Monday June 5, 2017

Grace

By Robert Wilson | Monday March 6, 2017

Consequences

By Robert Wilson | Monday December 5, 2016

Virtue

By Robert Wilson | Tuesday September 6, 2016

Animal Stories

By Robert Wilson | Monday June 6, 2016

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

Multitasking

By Robert Wilson | Monday February 29, 2016

Painkillers

By Robert Wilson | Monday December 7, 2015

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 | Monday December 2, 2024

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

Information Sickness

By Robert Wilson | Tuesday September 1, 2020

Viral Days

By Robert Wilson | Tuesday June 2, 2020

December 4, 2024

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