Sightings Articles

The Mythology and Mythologies of the Great American Novel
The roots and dangers of the quest for America's literary masterpiece...
February 15, 2021

Monuments, Memorials, and the Resacralization of Space
The landscape of public space shapes collective understandings of the past...
February 8, 2021

#TheLateUnpleasantness
The war came, again, in August, this time in the guise of what The New Yorker’s Jelani Cobb dubbed “The Battle of Charlottesville.” Hillary Clinton’s “deplorables” hopped their basket and marched on the Lawn of the University of Virginia on the eveni...