I'm a journalist and historian with a lot of thoughts about a lot of things, from American politics to American whiskey. Sometimes, I'll share some of them here.
I'm a journalist, dad, husband, Tennessean, and long-suffering fan of Georgetown men's basketball. I also write books, most recently "Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America."
Have we ever seen this before? Let's put the news in perspective and take the long view with political historian Professor Julian Zelizer.