The Frontier Lab studied the Democratic candidate s Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama during the 2012 campaign, finding that Obama’s strengths included affirming adherents’ “self-esteem ...

Turner’s “frontier thesis,” taught in schools, written into political oratory and endlessly represented in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show and motion pictures and dime novels, ...

One-hundred years ago, an obscure, young University of Wisconsin professor named Frederick Jackson Turner rose in an auditorium at Chicago’s new Art Institute to deliver a scholarly paper. He… ...

Accordingly, the Frontier Thesis lived on long after his death, even as a new generation of academics continue to debunk many of its assertions. It infused Hollywood westerns and postwar ...

ALEX SOOJUNG-KIM PANGTHE FUTURE OF IDEAS: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World, By Lawrence Lessig, Random House: 320 pp., $30 ...