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 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

Autonomies

By Robert Wilson | Monday March 2, 2020

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

Beyond the Genteel

By Robert Wilson | Wednesday December 1, 2010

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