Garry Wills

  • Founding sinners

    While Thomas Jefferson never freed his slaves, George Washington did, despite his wife's wishes. Historians are finally coming to terms with America's oldest wound.
    By Laura Miller November 25, 2003

  • Letters to the Editor

    The "other woman" should dump that loser! Plus: Brill's Content editor questions Salon angle; e-commerce today, gone tomorrow?
    Letters to the Editor November 11, 1999

  • Get Uncle Sam off my back! and other misguided impulses

    American government-bashers like to wrap themselves in a constitutional flag. But Garry Wills argues that the Founders wanted a strong government, not a weak one.
    By Gary Kamiya November 3, 1999

  • Echoes in "Dutch" of a 1994 short story

    The narrator and his son, it turns out, aren't the only things that Edmund Morris faked.
    By Laura Miller November 3, 1999

  • An impatient man

    Garry Wills talks about the wit of St. Augustine, the necessity for gun control and the arrogant ignorance of the New York Times
    By David Bowman July 29, 1999

  • "Saint Augustine"

    The newest title in the Penguin Lives series is swift, invigorating and disappointing.
    By Allen Barra June 29, 1999

  • Illustrious historians blast attempt to impeach Clinton
    October 30, 1998

  • The darkest side of John Wayne

    The darkest side of John Wayne. The enduring power of America's favorite icon has nothing to do with politics -- and everything to do with sex, race and loneliness.
    By Jonathan Lethem August 11, 1997
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