Balancing the other-worldly success of a few in contrast with the challenges many still face is one of the thornier dilemmas of a post-COVID-19 world where those gaps have grown ever wider.
Read moreAmerica’s Flawed Search for Itself
What these headlines demonstrate is that, in today’s woke age, Americans have yet to find an equilibrium for evaluating who they are.
Read moreHere’s What Happens to a Conspiracy-Driven Party
As tempting as it to take the rise of conspiracy theories as a singular mark of a partisan internet-fueled age, however, there’s nothing particularly modern or unique about what is happening now.
Read moreWhat Can We Expect After the Pandemic?
Zachary Karabell reviews four books that focus on what we should expect after the pandemic: The Corona Crash, Life After Covid-19, Post-Corona, and The New Great Depression.
Read moreNo, This Isn’t as Bad as 1968 (So Far)
The blue CitiBike I was riding, unlocked with an iPhone, was very much a 21st-century phenomenon, but the landscape around it felt like 1968. In the past days, 1968 has emerged as a meme, a way to understand what we’re living through right now.
Read moreStop Saying America’s Problems are Like Ancient Rome’s Decline
The Trouble With Hitler Analogies
It is often said that those who forget history are doomed to repeat it. But identifying the history that we might be foolishly repeating is no easy task. The past is littered with people drawing superficial or incomplete parallels and making bad decisions as a result. Trying to prevent something that isn’t really happening can lead down a rabbit hole of misunderstandings and mistakes.
Read moreThe January Series 2014 - Zachary Karabell “Trend and Repeat: What History and Economics can Teach us about the Future”
Zachary Karabell presents "Trend and Repeat: What History and Economics can Teach us about the Future" Recorded January 15, 2014 as part of the January Series of Calvin College.
Read moreBookTV: Hitchens, Karabell, and Kirsch debate Religion (1)
Christopher Hitchens, Zachary Karabell and Jonathan Kirsch debate Religion and Culture. The LA Times Festival of Books, 2007.
Read moreMorality and History
The panelists discussed the moral lessons of history and the duties of historians.
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