Thomas Geoghegan

As the South heats up, America’s future is in the Upper Midwest.

It will be good for us, it will clear our heads, to get beyond the nation-state.

There may be a worldwide depression, a bigger pandemic, and the burning of the planet to contend with, but if Joe Biden is elected in November, our first order of business will be to learn all over again how to govern ourselves. If Biden is elected and the Democrats take the ...

For some on the left, one way to end our Trump-era divide—or to answer Trump at least—is to push our own form of “nationalism.” That’s the argument of Jill Lepore in her little book, This America: The Case for the Nation (2019), which is selling at the cash register at ...

A reporter asked Pope Francis to name the single biggest evil in the world. Secularism? No. Abortion? Not even. Here’s what he said: “Youth unemployment—and the abandonment of the elderly.” OK, that’s two evils. But aren’t they really one thing? Unable to get a ...

The scene: Just before midnight, July 3, 1826, at Monticello. Thomas Jefferson is gravely ill after a series of strokes. The next day is the fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, and Jefferson is widely expected to make a public statement. His pro-slavery ...

Being a labor lawyer, and blinkered anyway by one or two big ideas, I tend to look at things the way a labor economist does. So when I wonder about the countless aspects of American public life that are falling apart, I always come back to the same explanation: It’s because ...

Chicago, 1989. A strike that has been going on for some time has finally collapsed. The union is facing ruination and the company has filed suit for millions in damages. On the eve of the trial, Gil, the union’s lawyer, stumbles into a romantic triangle between his North Side ...