Edward S. Shapiro

Edward S. Shapiro is an emeritus professor of history at Seton Hall University.

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November 20, 2025

Harvard in the Dock

Edward S. Shapiro

Historian Edward S. Shapiro examines the report on antisemitism at Harvard commissioned by the school in the wake of its anemic response to the unrest on campus after the Hamas attacks on Israel of Oc......

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November 20, 2025

The Tarnished Arches of the Hamburger King

Edward S. Shapiro

Edward S. Shapiro says that Marcia Chatelain’s Pulitzer prize-winning book Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America, fails to acknowledge some of the positive effects the hamburge......

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July 3, 2025

Ta-Nehisi Coates Sends a Message

Edward S. Shapiro

Edward S. Shapiro’s dissects Ta-Nehisi Coates’s The Message, in which Shapiro discovers that Coates is an “ideologue awash in his grievances,” basking in the undue ad......

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