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Steve Lagerfeld

Steve Lagerfeld is a public policy fellow at the Wilson Center and the former editor of The Wilson Quarterly.

What I Will Miss About the Pandemic

What I Will Miss About the Pandemic

Here’s hoping the new connections and fresh empathy won’t disappear

by Steve Lagerfeld | Thursday, April 01, 2021
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One For All

A sociologist's plea for the common good

by Steve Lagerfeld | Tuesday, September 24, 2019
The End of Driving

The End of Driving

Yes, autonomous autos will make roads safer and more efficient, but what wonders will be lost?

by Steve Lagerfeld | Monday, June 03, 2019
The Skeptic

The Skeptic

A critic’s cranky charm

by Steve Lagerfeld | Monday, June 09, 2014

THIS WEEK’S ARCHIVE PICK

2nd Look

The Story of a Stare Down

by Penelope Rowlands

Hilary Mantel, one of Britain’s most revered novelists, died last year at the age of 70. She is beloved for her sweeping Wolf Hall trilogy, for which she won two Booker Prizes. But long before rehabilitating Thomas Cromwell’s reputation, Mantel was unparalleled in her crystalline dissections of power, whether between girls at the University of London or Dantonists in the French Revolution. In honor of Mantel’s enormous contributions to literature, dive back into her Tudor world with Penelope Rowlands’s essay about one of the key power dynamics Mantel explored: that between Cromwell and Sir Thomas More.

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