Mark Thomas Edwards

Mark Thomas Edwards, Professor of U.S. history and politics and author of a new Walter Lippmann biography, explores Lippmann’s life, religious thought, and political influence. He traces Lippmann’s turn from Judaism to agnosticism, his calls for moral alternatives in a post-Christian America, and his shifting, contrarian political stances across journalism, foreign policy, and civil religion.

Mark Thomas Edwards, a professor of U.S. history and politics who wrote a new biography of Walter Lippmann, explores Lippmann’s intellectual and religious life. The conversation covers Lippmann’s fame as a public intellectual, his shifting views on religion and liberalism, his Cold War skepticism and foreign‑policy realism, and his idea of civic religion as a remedy for a post‑Christian society.

Mark Thomas Edwards, a professor of U.S. history and politics, discusses Walter Lippmann, the towering 20th-century political journalist. He explores Lippmann's shifting religious views, his role shaping terms like "stereotype" and "Cold War," and his uneasy blend of liberalism and skepticism. The conversation highlights Lippmann's struggles with civic religion, race and civil rights, and the philosophical roots of modern American liberalism.