The historian turned Substack star spoke with Vanity Fair about her new book, Democracy Awakening, her fears about America’s drift toward authoritarianism, and the “importance of the storytelling” in bringing context to chaos.
wrote a short essay on her Facebook page after news broke that’s acting director of National Intelligence had withheld an urgent whistleblower complaint. It was the first domino to fall in what would later become a full-fledged impeachment probe into the former president’s now infamous call with Ukrainian president. The country was entering unprecedented political territory. And Cox Richardson’s observations left readers hungry for more.
But while her public persona has changed, Cox Richardson’s intellectual goals have not. She aims to historicize America’s political absurdities with a fundamental question: Whether, as she wrote recently, “the rule of law on which the United States of America was founded will survive.
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