Nicolaus Mills

Nicolaus Mills is author of Winning the Peace: The Marshall Plan and America’s Coming of Age as a Superpower and professor of literature at Sarah Lawrence College.

A portrait of Harvard University President Drew Gilpin Faust on campus in June 2017, a year before she stepped down as president.

GROWING UP ABSURD

She Was Battling Virginia Segregation at the Age of 9

Drew Gilpin Faust was not your average Harvard president, and the road that got her there was full of good trouble.

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TESTIFY

Dear College Applicant: Affirmative Action Is Gone: Discuss

Here’s how one college responded to the recent Supreme Court decision on affirmative action in college admissions.

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‘We right a wrong’

No One Ever Made the Case for Reparations Better Than Reagan

In 1988, Ronald Reagan made a heartfelt case for payments combining restitution and reparations without fearing he would lose his credentials as a political conservative.

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hands on the wheel

Ford, Edison, and Burroughs Were Our Oddest Road Warriors

In the early 20th Century, America’s foremost industrialist, inventor, and naturalist embarked on a series of road trips that were inspired by Thoreau and anticipated Kerouac.

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