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.

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

Faith’s pivotal role in the outcome of the Civil War

By Robert Wilson | Monday December 2, 2024

Notes and Outtakes

Good writing never gets old

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

Strangers

By Robert Wilson | Monday June 10, 2013

Colorblind

By Robert Wilson | Friday March 1, 2013

Monkey Business

By Robert Wilson | Friday December 7, 2012

Presidents and Poets

By Robert Wilson | Tuesday September 4, 2012

Hands Out

By Robert Wilson | Friday June 1, 2012

Memory and Forgetting

By Robert Wilson | Thursday March 1, 2012

Printing Money

By Robert Wilson | Wednesday November 30, 2011

Recalculating

By Robert Wilson | Thursday August 25, 2011

Departures

By Robert Wilson | Friday June 3, 2011

War, Civil and Otherwise

By Robert Wilson | Wednesday March 2, 2011

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