Samuel J. Abrams

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  • Jul 2, 2026
    As America prepares to celebrate its 250th birthday, we are asking big questions. What should we remember? What should we regret? What kind of country do we hope to become? Worthy...
  • Jul 1, 2026
    Poetica Coffee, a Brooklyn café, promises anyone who walks through its door “unconditional dignity.” Not as a customer and not as a transaction, the website...
  • Jun 4, 2026
    The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) recently released a study by David Primo measuring faculty viewpoint diversity through campaign-contribution data. The...
  • Apr 18, 2026
    There are dinners, and then there are moments of formation.
  • Apr 15, 2026
    In a recent class, I asked my students a simple question: What do you think about the Artemis II mission?
  • Apr 14, 2026
    There are dinners, and then there are moments of formation.
  • Jan 20, 2026
    For more than two decades, my research has pointed to a basic but often misunderstood reality of American public life: The culture war is not being driven by a radicalized...
  • Jan 10, 2026
    There was a line in Zohran Mamdani’s inaugural address that should have stopped New Yorkers cold. He pledged to replace what he called “the frigidity of rugged...
  • Jan 8, 2026
    From time to time, a familiar prescription reappears in American public life: restore shame. If we could re-stigmatize bad behavior – name it, expose it, impose moral costs...
  • Jan 6, 2026
    There was a line in Zohran Mamdani’s inaugural address that should have stopped New Yorkers cold. He pledged to replace what he called “the frigidity of rugged...