My latest: an essay on my teacher Carey McWilliams’s great (in both senses) book The Idea of Fraternity in America.

“Pushed to the edges of American life, fraternity is not, after all, easy to repress: ‘What has been eclipsed may reemerge.’ If old models of community and connection fade, fraternity can appear in new guises and through new voices. Fraternity’s discontinuous story and political marginality…gives rise to a certain kind of hope[:] fraternity’s friends, aiming not to dominate but to endure, maybe even to endure joyfully, can always find modest and worthwhile work to do.”