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Michael Kimmage

Michael Kimmage

Michael Kimmage is professor of history at the Catholic University of America, specializing in the history of the United States, Europe, and Russia.

He is author of The Abandonment of the West: The History of an Idea in American Foreign Policy (2020), In History’s Grip: Philip Roth’s Newark Trilogy (2012), and The Conservative Turn: Lionel Trilling, Whittaker Chambers, and the Lessons of Anti-Communism (2009).

Twitter: @mkimmage

Articles and Events

A Republic, If You Can Keep It
Art

A Republic, If You Can Keep It

A new Smithsonian exhibition chronicles America’s turning point when the lines between republic and empire blurred.

Michael Kimmage
The Twilight Struggle
Books

The Twilight Struggle

In The Twilight Struggle, Hal Brands illuminates the vices and virtues of American statecraft during the Cold War.

Michael Kimmage
The Fall

The Fall

On the thirtieth anniversary of the demise of the Soviet Union, Vladislav Zubok’s Collapse offers a timely, sharp new lens with which to view events then—and now.

Michael Kimmage
Menand’s Cold War
Books

Menand’s Cold War

Louis Menand’s new book The Free World is more Paris than Prague, more Rauschenberg than religion.

Michael Kimmage
Newt Gingrich and Our Hyperpartisan Moment
Books

Newt Gingrich and Our Hyperpartisan Moment

His rise—and an episode of “mindless cannibalism”—presaged today’s divisive politics.

Michael Kimmage